Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Dalrymple: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Dalrymple. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is what many newer diesels around Dalrymple and Rozelle carry, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the gas.
There's a filler on each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel gets filled at each filling station visit, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Dalrymple
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 it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Barbieston Road, or heading home in the car park at White Horse.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Hollybush or bang in the heart of Dalrymple.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Dalrymple or a drive out in Kincaidston. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says where.
- The previous driver will know. Ask as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — at Ayr's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around East Ayrshire, use this routine.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Forglen Road.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Stage five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Dalrymple?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Leave your ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. 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.
At a forecourt — BP, another forecourt nearby or another — the attendants will usually help roll the car clear, when you ask. Your own drive around Dalrymple is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. On the M77, under 25 miles from Dalrymple, that means the next junction. A short hop across Dalrymple is a smaller job than a run towards Glasgow, under 50 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Dalrymple: what occurs when our engineers arrive
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, close to War Memorial or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run, because those answers settle the work and our price. You get that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire 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 doesn't wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. Before we leave, we fire it up and make sure that it is running smoothly.
If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Dalrymple, briefly
Dalrymple is a village situated on the banks of a river in East Ayrshire, with a relatively low elevation of 57 metres. Dalrymple lies near several smaller communities, including Hollybush, Minishant, and Culroy, and is around 35 miles from Glasgow. Dalrymple has a population of approximately 1235 people, living primarily in semi-detached housing. Dalrymple is also located a significant distance from major cities like London, at around 325 miles away.
AdBlue drains across East Ayrshire, Dalrymple included
Minishant and Culroy are among the places around Dalrymple, a village, that the same vans cover, throughout KA postcodes. Quickest of all: give a KA6 6 postcode to our van.
The car doesn't need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Balsarroch Belts, a side street near Dalrymple Parish Church: our technicians drain the car where it is. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Lindston Henge? By a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Dalrymple drivers
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in East Ayrshire.