Bracken Bank: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Keep the engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, if the engine hasn't run, it's drained and thoroughly purged where the vehicle sits in Bracken Bank. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Bracken Bank and Ingrow carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
There is a filler for every tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Bracken Bank?
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Bracken Bank Way before work, or in the car park at Bracken Arms on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Third, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the pour starts, no part halts it. Damems or the middle of Bracken Bank: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Bracken Bank forecourt or a drive over in Harewood Hill, take a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- On plenty of cars, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors mark what belongs in each inlet just there.
- The handbook shows which it lives if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Keighley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere around West Yorkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Central Avenue.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly using the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bracken Bank already?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of your tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive in Bracken Bank, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Bracken Bank lies under 10 miles from the M606; on it, use the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Bradford, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bracken Bank.
Our arrival in Bracken Bank, and what happens next
Outside Worth Valley Primary School, close to Sue Belcher Community Centre or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. What liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since the replies decide the work and price. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we go, our technicians start it and make sure that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers get there, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Bracken Bank and where it is
Bracken Bank is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 4801 residents. Bracken Bank sits at an elevation of 165 metres, approximately 8.2 miles from Bradford, and is near other local places such as Damems, Bogthorn, and Hermit Hole. Bracken Bank is located within the wider Yorkshire and the Humber region, about 178.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Bracken Bank included
Bracken Bank is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Bogthorn and Hermit Hole among them, across the BD postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts BD22 7, and the van gets there quickest.
Your car does not need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street near Exley Head Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Whins Wood, a drive. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St John's, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The short version for Bracken Bank people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it stands, anywhere across West Yorkshire.