AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bulwell Forest: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where the vehicle stands in Bulwell Forest, is usually all it needs when caught before your engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of newer diesels in Top Valley, like those in Bulwell Forest, carry on two fluids; the engine takes just the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think which filler to use. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bulwell Forest: how it occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Colston Road before work, or in the car park at Newstead Abbey on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing halts the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it out in Rise Park or right in the centre of Bulwell Forest.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Bestwood or a forecourt in Bulwell Forest, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- The handbook shows which it is when 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 at Bulwell, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around Nottinghamshire, use this routine.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed by Austin Street on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
Bulwell Forest: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting your motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help push your car away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Tesco, the Morrisons or anywhere else. If you're on your own drive in Bulwell Forest, leave it where it is.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M1, under 3 miles from Bulwell Forest, that means the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Nottingham, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bulwell Forest.
Our arrival around Bulwell Forest, and what takes place next
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Cantrell Primary and Nursery School, near P.C. Ged Walker or on your own drive. The answers decide this work and our price, so our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run. You hear that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes out unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Bulwell Forest itself
Bulwell Forest is a locality situated on the River Leen in Nottinghamshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Bulwell Forest lies close to the city of Nottingham, approximately 3.7 miles from the city centre, and is near other local places such as Rise Park and Highbury Vale. Bulwell Forest has a population of around 2339 people and is located at an elevation of 57 metres above sea level. Bulwell Forest is also relatively close to major transport links, being around 112.7 miles from London.
Bulwell Forest and Nottinghamshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Bulwell Forest is a small village, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Highbury Vale and Bulwell among them, across the NG postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting NG6 9.
The car does not need to move. The drain happens right there, be it a drive, a street near Seventh Day Adventist Church, or a lay-by towards Bulwell Forest Golf Club. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Mount Zion Seventh Day Church of God.
In short, for Bulwell Forest people
Pour no AdBlue till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Nottinghamshire.