Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Brant Broughton: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor has not turned, it's drained and fully cleaned where the vehicle sits in Brant Broughton. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers how it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels in Leadenham, like those in Brant Broughton, carry on two fluids; the engine takes just the diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Brant Broughton
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Church Walk, or heading home in the car park at Generous Briton.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
Third, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. Whether it occurs in Stragglethorpe or the middle of Brant Broughton, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Brant Broughton or a driveway out in Carlton-le-Moorland. Seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Collingham, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever in Lincolnshire, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Coldrons Way.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never opened off.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Brant Broughton?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Gulf or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help push your car away from the petrol pump. Your own drive in Brant Broughton is where it stays.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next exit means the place to come off if you are on the M1, under 50 miles from Brant Broughton. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Lincoln, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Brant Broughton.
When our technicians arrive around Brant Broughton, what takes place?
By Brant Broughton Church of England and Methodist Primary School, near Brant Broughton Friends Meeting House or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. We ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run, because the answers decide this work and our quote. During the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of dispatch.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. Hence it counts more. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we go, we fire it up and make sure that it is running correctly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Brant Broughton and where it is
Brant Broughton is a village in Lincolnshire, situated on the banks of the River Witham at an elevation of around 17 metres. Brant Broughton lies near the city of Lincoln, approximately 11.6 miles to the south, and is surrounded by other small villages such as Stragglethorpe and Beckingham. Brant Broughton has a population of around 785 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Brant Broughton is located in a rural area, with Sutton also nearby.
AdBlue drains around Brant Broughton, and Lincolnshire beyond
Over LN postcodes, the teams covering Brant Broughton — a village — work the nearby locations too, Sutton and Beckingham included. Quickest of all: quote a LN5 0 postcode to the van.
Your car remains put. The drain happens on the spot, be it a drive, a road by St Helen, or a layby on the way to Bottom Covert. Guessing doesn't help at the back of St Michael, on a border, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
For Brant Broughton drivers, the short version
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever around Lincolnshire: switch the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.