Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Craigneuk: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your motor hasn't run, it's drained and thoroughly purged where your car is in Craigneuk. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel goes to your engine — but plenty of modern diesels driven about Craigneuk and Dunrobin hold a second liquid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Craigneuk: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Sycamore Crescent, or at The Four Isles Bar on the way home that evening.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — because a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Craigneuk or out in Petersburn.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Clarkston or a forecourt in Craigneuk, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many motors show what goes in each inlet right there.
- The handbook shows which it is when your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Drumgelloch.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere across North Lanarkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Hawthorn Drive.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Craigneuk?
Short order, then. Top of that: the engine remains unstarted. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it by itself starts the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
At a forecourt — BP, Morrisons or any other — the attendants will usually help push your car clear, if you ask. Your own driveway in Craigneuk is the place it should stay.
When the motor has been run already, stop somewhere safe then turn it off. Craigneuk sits under 3 miles from the M8; on it, use the first junction. A short hop across Craigneuk is a smaller job than a run towards Glasgow, under 15 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Craigneuk, and what occurs next
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to The Albert Bartlett Stadium or on your own drive. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — which fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. You hear that price by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away unaided. That is why it counts more. A test is at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. After that we start it and check it runs smoothly before we leave.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run take roughly half an hour once we are there. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Craigneuk and where it is
Craigneuk is a suburban area in North Lanarkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 142 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Craigneuk lies approximately 10.9 miles from Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, and is close to nearby places such as Petersburn, Drumgelloch, and Brownsburn. Craigneuk has a population of around 5358 people, making it a relatively small but distinct community within the wider region. Craigneuk is also located a significant distance from London, at around 339.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Craigneuk and across North Lanarkshire
Throughout ML postcodes, our vans that cover Craigneuk — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Brownsburn and Drumgelloch included. Fastest of all: give a ML6 8 postcode for the van.
Shifting the car is not necessary. Anywhere it sits — beside Saint Edward's Church, on a layby en route to Craigneuk Park, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Jackson Church of Scotland.
The short version for Craigneuk people
Tip nothing until you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere in North Lanarkshire: switch the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.