Butlers Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done right where the car sits around Butlers Hill, is normally all it takes if found before the motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels around Bestwood Village, like those in Butlers Hill, run on two liquids; the motor gets only your diesel. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Different tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of motors 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 petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Butlers Hill
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Portland Road before work, or in the car park outside The Broomhill Inn on the way home.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and after the tip starts, nothing stops it. It's a few seconds, whether out in Broomhill or bang in the centre of Butlers Hill.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Butlers Hill or a drive out in Ruffs. A few seconds, no more.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Hucknall's car park, say — not when the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere across Nottinghamshire, use this routine.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, motor off, and not in a rush by Whyburn Street at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Butlers Hill: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief list, then. First: your engine stays off. Leave your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
The staff at Tesco, Texaco or another forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the car away if you ask. On your own drive around Butlers Hill? Then the vehicle stays put.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Butlers Hill lies under 3 miles from the M1; there, take the next junction. A short hop across Butlers Hill is a smaller job than a run towards Nottingham, under 10 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we turn up in Butlers Hill, what occurs?
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Broomhill Junior School, near East Side Methodist Church or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run, because those replies settle the work and the price. On the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away unaided. Hence it matters more. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Next we fire it up and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Butlers Hill
Butlers Hill is a suburban area located in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of around 5981 people. Butlers Hill sits at an elevation of 74 metres, approximately 5.5 miles from Nottingham city centre. Butlers Hill is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, and is situated near other local areas such as Broomhill and Hucknall. Butlers Hill is also relatively close to Hazelgrove, with the city of Nottingham providing nearby amenities.
AdBlue drains around Butlers Hill and across Nottinghamshire
Hucknall and Hazelgrove are among the towns near Butlers Hill, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over NG postcodes. Quote a postcode that starts NG15 7, and our van gets there quickest.
The vehicle stays where it is. Anywhere it sits — beside St John the Evangelist, on a layby en route to Titchfield Park, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Former Hucknall Colliery Site 1865 to 1985? Close to a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
Butlers Hill drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, wherever across Nottinghamshire: switch it off and call 0333 366 0103.