Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Cottingley Bar: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Cottingley Bar. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it happens and the how to prevent it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels in Old Hills, like those in Cottingley Bar, run on two liquids; your motor gets just your diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has one 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. Diesel goes in on each forecourt visit, week in, week out. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which filler to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Cottingley Bar: how it happens
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Bradford Road, or heading home in the car park at Throstles Nest.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Cottingley Bar or out in Cottingley.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Cottingley Bar forecourt or a driveway over in Lee Lane, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives when the filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Bingley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever across West Yorkshire, follow this routine.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Cottingley New Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the own spout.
- Before you start the car, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never opened off.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Cottingley Bar already?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. 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 thin it.
The attendants at Texaco, Shell or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car away when asked. At home around Cottingley Bar? So the vehicle remains where it is.
Where the engine has run already, pull over safely then switch it off. On the M606, under 10 miles from Cottingley Bar, that means the next exit. A short hop across Cottingley Bar is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 5 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when we arrive in Cottingley Bar
The van reaches the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near SS Mary & Monica Church, or outside Cottingley Village Primary School. Those replies settle the work and the quote, and so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. Nobody heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before we go.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after we get there, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Cottingley Bar
Cottingley Bar is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with Cottingley Bar being close to the nearby settlements of Cottingley and Nab Wood. Cottingley Bar has a population of around 2821 people and is characterized by semi-detached housing. Cottingley Bar is located near Bradford, which is approximately 4 miles away, and Cottingley Bar sits at an elevation of 94 metres above sea level.
AdBlue drains in Cottingley Bar and across West Yorkshire
Nab Wood and Noon Nick are among the towns near Cottingley Bar, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BD postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BD16 1.
Moving your car isn't necessary. We drain it where it is — a side street near Cottingley Town Hall, a lay-by on the way to Rye Loaf Wood, a drive. Guessing doesn't help behind Cottingley Community Centre, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
Cottingley Bar motorists: the short version
Tip no AdBlue till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.