Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Cononley: Why It Happens
Leave your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Around Cononley, catching it before your motor turns usually leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many newer diesels on the roads about Cononley and Farnhill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. 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, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. It's in that gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Cononley
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
On a driveway off Crosshills Road before work, or in the car park outside The New Inn on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is the second thing: a strange vehicle.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, carries on. Whether it takes place in Aire View or the middle of Cononley, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Cononley forecourt or a driveway out in Low Bradley, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside the nearest station? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light comes on, wherever in North Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of New Inn Fold.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Stage five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Cononley already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting your engine. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels it by itself runs your pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at BP, Asda or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing your car clear when you ask. If you're on your own driveway in Cononley, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M65, under 10 miles from Cononley, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Cononley is smaller work than a trip of under 15 miles towards Bradford, and so tell us.
What occurs when our technicians get there around Cononley
Our van comes to your car wherever it has come to rest — your own driveway, near Cononley Institute, or outside Cononley Primary School. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since the replies determine the work and our quote. The price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. 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. Once the filter has been flushed — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle is tested. Next our technicians start the engine and check it runs properly before we leave.
Unrun cars usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Cononley, briefly
Cononley is a village situated on the banks of the River Aire in North Yorkshire, with a mix of terraced housing and scenic riverside views. Cononley sits at an elevation of around 105 metres, approximately 13.8 miles from Bradford and 184.4 miles from London. Cononley has nearby neighbourhoods including Aire View and Cononley Woodside, and is surrounded by rolling countryside. Cononley remains a small, close-knit community with a population of around 1469 residents.
AdBlue drains about Cononley, and North Yorkshire beyond
As a village, Cononley shares its vans surrounding areas — Cononley Woodside, High Farnhill — right through BD postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Quickest of all: give a BD20 8 postcode to our van.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. Wherever it sits — beside St John the Evangelist, on a lay-by heading to Swire's Plantation, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Polish Airmen's Memorial.
For Cononley motorists, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, anywhere in North Yorkshire: keep the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.