AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burton Pidsea: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. In Burton Pidsea, finding it before your motor turns normally means a drain and a full flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Not one liquid but two: that's how many modern diesels near Burton Pidsea and North End carry, with diesel for the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Burton Pidsea: how it takes place
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off St Peters Walk before work, or in the car park at The Nancy heading home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have 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, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Burton Pidsea or out in Danthorpe.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Burton Pidsea or a drive over in Fitling. A few seconds, that's all.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles 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 car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Hull, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across East Riding of Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Kissing Gate, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and 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.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then check once more — confirm your diesel cap remained shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Burton Pidsea already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your engine. Leave the ignition off as well, because on many diesels it alone starts the pump. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Murco or the Burstwick Service Station, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Burton Pidsea.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Come off the M180 — under 25 miles out of Burton Pidsea — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Burton Pidsea.
Burton Pidsea: what takes place when our technicians get there
Our van reaches the car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near St. Peter & St. Paul, or by Burton Pidsea Primary School. We ask what went in, about how much, and whether it has run, since those replies settle this work and our price. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Then that tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out unaided. That is why it counts more. Once the filter is cleaned — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel is added, and finally the car is tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it's running properly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our engineers arrive, provided your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Burton Pidsea itself
Burton Pidsea is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated inland near the city of Kingston upon Hull. Burton Pidsea lies close to the villages of Danthorpe, Owstwick, and Elstronwick, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Burton Pidsea has a relatively low elevation of around 8 metres, reflecting its position in the low-lying landscape of the region.
Burton Pidsea and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a rural village, Burton Pidsea shares its vans surrounding areas — Owstwick, Elstronwick — right through HU postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Quote a postcode beginning HU12 9, and the van arrives quickest.
The vehicle stays where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Burton Pidsea Memorial Hall, a lay-by on the way to St. Paul's Wood, a drive. Tricky to explain, like the back of St Lawrence's Church? By a border? Asking is better than guessing, so phone.
In short, for Burton Pidsea people
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout East Riding of Yorkshire.