Eggborough: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your motor has not run, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where the vehicle is around Eggborough. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it happens and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
No single liquid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Eggborough and Kellington run, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
Eggborough: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off Selby Road before work, or in the car park outside Horse & Jockey heading home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode follows.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a hire 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, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. It takes seconds, be it in Hut Green or bang in the centre of Eggborough.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Whitley or a forecourt around Eggborough, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it lives if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Whitley Bridge, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are in North Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Weeland Road on the verge.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Eggborough already?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your pump. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Morrisons or the BP, ask the staff to help push the car away from the petrol pump. At home in Eggborough? Then the vehicle remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit means the place to come off if you're on the M62, under a mile from Eggborough. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Doncaster, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Eggborough.
When our technicians turn up around Eggborough, what takes place?
Outside Whitley and Eggborough Community Primary School, near Eggborough & Whitley Village Hall or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. What fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask because those replies decide the work and price. During the phone call itself, you are told our quote — before anything else.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing washes out on its own, however long it is left. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our technicians arrive, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Eggborough
Eggborough is a village in North Yorkshire, situated in a low-lying area near the River Ouse, with a mix of rural and suburban characteristics. Eggborough has a population of around 2140 people, living in predominantly detached housing. Eggborough is located near several other small villages, including Hut Green and Whitley Bridge, and is about 12 miles from Doncaster. Eggborough sits at an elevation of 14 metres above sea level, in the inland part of Yorkshire.
AdBlue drains in Eggborough and across North Yorkshire
Whitley Bridge and High Eggborough are among the towns near Eggborough, a rural village, that the same vans cover, over DN postcodes. Give a postcode that starts DN14 0, and our van arrives fastest.
There's no need to move the vehicle. Draining happens on the spot, be it a drive, a road near Kellington Village Hall, or a lay-by towards Crow Wood. Tricky to explain, like the back of Whitley All Saints Church? By a county line? Asking is better than guessing, so ring.
For Eggborough motorists, the short version
Tip no AdBlue until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere around North Yorkshire.