Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Broomhill: Why It Happens
Keep your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if your motor hasn't run, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your car sits in Broomhill. Here in advance? Then what follows explains how it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels around Merkland, like those in Broomhill, carry on two liquids; the motor gets just the diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place both together under one flap. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which filler to use. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Broomhill: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom 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 completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Broomhill Farm Mews before work, or in the car park at The Redbrae on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second factor: a strange car.
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. It's a few seconds, be it in Hillhead or bang in the heart of Broomhill.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Kirkintilloch or a forecourt in Broomhill, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it next to your diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check when you collect a rental or company car — from Lenzie's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the warning comes on — wherever it is across East Dunbartonshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Lanfine Drive.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Broomhill?
Brief order, then. Top of that: your engine remains off. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Gulf or the Shell, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive around Broomhill, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M80, under 3 miles from Broomhill, that means the next exit. A short hop across Broomhill is a smaller job than a run towards Glasgow, under 10 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when we get there around Broomhill
Wherever the car has stopped, be it outside the local primary school, near St. Flannan's RC Church or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and if it has run, because those replies settle this work and our quote. Nobody heads out before you've had our price over the phone.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after the tank is emptied. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we go, our engineers start it and confirm that it is running correctly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Broomhill, for a moment
Broomhill is a suburban area located on the River Kelvin in East Dunbartonshire, with a mix of residential and local amenities. Broomhill sits at an elevation of 46 metres, close to the nearby suburbs of Hillhead and Eastside. Broomhill is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing, which is typical of many suburban areas in the region. Broomhill is situated near the city of Glasgow, which is approximately 6.6 miles away.
Broomhill and East Dunbartonshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Eastside and Cleddans are among the towns near Broomhill, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over G postcodes. Fastest of all: quote a G66 1 postcode for our van.
The car remains where it is. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a street near Hillhead Community Centre, or a layby on the way to Peel Park. Guessing doesn't help behind War Memorial, on a border, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Broomhill people: the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, wherever across East Dunbartonshire: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.