How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Edgerton
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Around Edgerton, finding it before your engine turns normally means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — handy if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of current diesels driven round Edgerton and Cowcliffe carry another fluid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
There's a filler for each tank. Plenty of cars have a single flap for the two, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every filling station call-out, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Edgerton
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Rose Mount, or on the way home in the car park at The Spinks Nest Hotel.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. It takes a few seconds, whether in Norwood Park or bang in the heart of Edgerton.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Edgerton forecourt or a driveway out in Lindley, spend a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Huddersfield.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, anywhere across West Yorkshire, follow this routine.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush by Bryan Road on the verge.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It seems daft. It works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly through its own spout.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Never go on to step five.
Edgerton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Shell, Esso or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing your car clear when you ask. On your own drive in Edgerton? So the car remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M62, under 3 miles from Edgerton, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Edgerton is smaller a job than a trip of under 10 miles to Bradford, so say.
Our arrival around Edgerton, and what occurs next
Outside St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy, close to St Cuthbert or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — which fluid, what quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. The price is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it matters more. Once the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and then the vehicle is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Edgerton
Edgerton is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Calder and characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Edgerton sits at an elevation of 149 metres, with nearby green spaces such as Norwood Park providing recreational opportunities for residents. Edgerton is located close to several other suburban areas, including Prince Royd and Birkby, and is around 9 miles from the city of Bradford. Edgerton has a population of approximately 5138 people, according to recent estimates.
Edgerton and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Prince Royd and Birkby are among the towns around Edgerton, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over HD postcodes. Fastest of all: give a HD2 2 postcode to the van.
Moving the car isn't needed. The drain takes place right there, whether a driveway, a road near Gledholt Methodist Church, or a lay-by towards Grimescar Woods. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Masjid Omar.
In short, for Edgerton motorists
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, wherever in West Yorkshire: keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.