Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Crowle Park: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Crowle Park, finding it before your engine runs normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many newer diesels in Ealand, as well as Crowle Park, carry on two fluids; the engine gets just your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has a filler of its own. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Crowle Park?
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Orchard Grange before work, or in the car park outside The White Hart heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Crowle Park or out in Crowle.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Crowle Park or a drive over in Woodhouse. Seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check when you pick up a rental or fleet car — from Crowle's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere around Lincolnshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Saffron Way, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Crowle Park already?
Don't start the engine: that's where the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
The staff at Shell, another forecourt nearby or another forecourt will normally help to push the car away if asked. If you are on your own drive in Crowle Park, leave the car where it is.
Where the motor has run already, pull over safely and turn the vehicle off. The next exit is the place to leave when you're on the M180, under 3 miles from Crowle Park. A short hop across Crowle Park is a smaller job than a run towards Doncaster, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our engineers turn up around Crowle Park, what happens?
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside St Norbert's Catholic Voluntary Academy, close to Crowle Market Place or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run, since the replies settle this work and our quote. You get that quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or changed as needed. The motor is started next and checked to be sure it runs properly, all before we go.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Crowle Park and where it is
Crowle Park is a locality in northern Lincolnshire, situated near the town of Crowle and close to the border with South Yorkshire. Crowle Park lies in a low-lying area of the Isle of Axholme, at an elevation of around 7 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Crowle Park is part of a larger network of settlements in the region, including nearby Crowle and Tetley.
AdBlue drains about Crowle Park, and Lincolnshire beyond
Throughout DN postcodes, the teams covering Crowle Park — a small village — work the nearby places too, Crowle Hill and Tetley included. Quote a postcode that starts DN17 4, and the van gets there quickest.
Your car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Crowle Market Hall (Library & Post Office), a lay-by on the way to The Lincolnshire Golf Course, a drive. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Crowle Methodist Church.
In short, for Crowle Park motorists
Pour no AdBlue until you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Lincolnshire.