AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Brockagh: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Leave your engine and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Brockagh. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel goes to your engine — yet many modern diesels seen round Brockagh and Maghery carry another fluid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Brockagh?
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Chalet Road before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
Unfamiliar motors come next, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. Mountjoy or the middle of Brockagh: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these first, on a forecourt around Brockagh or a driveway over in Clonoe. A few seconds, no more.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles mark which goes in each filler just there.
- The handbook shows where it lives if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you collect a rental or company car — at the nearest station's car park, perhaps — not once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around County Tyrone, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of North Crescent, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Brockagh already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the another forecourt nearby or anywhere else. If you are on your own driveway in Brockagh, leave the car where it is.
Where your motor has been run already, pull over safely and switch the car off. The next junction is where to come off if you're on the M77, over 50 miles from Brockagh. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Armagh, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Brockagh.
Our arrival around Brockagh, and what happens next
Outside the local primary school, near the centre or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. Nobody sets off until you've heard the quote over the phone.
Then that tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of the car. Your engine is started next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before we head off.
Unstarted cars usually mean a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Brockagh and where it is
Brockagh is a small locality in County Tyrone, situated inland near the shores of Lough Neagh. Brockagh sits at a low elevation of around 12 metres, close to the nearby settlements of Mountjoy and Washing Bay. Brockagh is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Brockagh is located approximately 14 miles from the city of Armagh, and some 341 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Brockagh and across County Tyrone
Brockagh is a small village, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Washing Bay and Acton among them, across the BT postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BT71 5.
There's no need to move your car. Anywhere it sits — beside a street just off the centre, in a lay-by en route to the green space at the edge of the village, at home — that is where it is emptied. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of the far end of the built-up part, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Brockagh drivers: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it stands, wherever in County Tyrone: switch it off then phone 0333 366 0103.