AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Coatdyke: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Keep the motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if the engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your vehicle is around Coatdyke. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Not one fluid but two: that's how many newer diesels near Coatdyke and Sikeside run, with diesel for the engine. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two together behind one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Coatdyke?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off Rochsolloch Road before work, or in the car park at The Horseshoe Bar heading home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you vehicles come second, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company cars place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Greenend or the middle of Coatdyke: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Cairnhill or a forecourt in Coatdyke.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in North Lanarkshire that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Saline Street.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Finish once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through its own spout.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Don't carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Coatdyke?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — BP, Shell or another — the attendants will usually help roll the car clear, when you ask. If you're on your own drive around Coatdyke, leave the car where it stands.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then turn off. On the M8, under 3 miles from Coatdyke, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Coatdyke is smaller work than a trip of under 10 miles to Glasgow, so tell us.
Our arrival in Coatdyke, and what occurs next
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, whether outside the local primary school, near Coatbridge Indoor Bowling Centre or at home, the van comes to it. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our technicians ask because those answers decide both work and price. You get that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Then that tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. A test is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or changed as needed. We do not go until it has been started and is running properly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Coatdyke
Coatdyke is a suburban area situated on the riverside in North Lanarkshire, with a mix of residential and local amenities. Coatdyke sits at an elevation of 94 metres, close to the nearby communities of Greenend, Cliftonville, and Whifflet. Coatdyke is located approximately 9 miles from Glasgow, making it a commuter-friendly area. Coatdyke has a population of around 3777 people, predominantly residing in flats.
AdBlue drains around Coatdyke, and North Lanarkshire beyond
As a residential suburb, Coatdyke shares its vans nearby places — Cliftonville, Whifflet — right through ML postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quote a postcode that starts ML6 9, and the van gets there fastest.
The car remains put. Anywhere it stands — beside Islamic Society of Airdrie & Coatbridge, on a lay-by heading to Centenary Park, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. Assuming won't help behind Coatdyke Congregational Church, close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
For Coatdyke people, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it is, wherever in North Lanarkshire: switch the car off then call 0333 366 0103.