Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Epworth Turbary: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Epworth Turbary. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that's how many newer diesels around Epworth Turbary and Church Town run, with diesel for the motor. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the fumes.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two together under one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the error lives.
Epworth Turbary: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
Haste comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Carrside, or on the way home in the car park at The Old School Inn.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second thing: a new vehicle.
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 in Epworth or right in the heart of Epworth Turbary.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Epworth Turbary forecourt or a driveway over in Tunnel Pits, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- On plenty of vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Crowle.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever around Lincolnshire, follow this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Wroot Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located your filler and read the cap.
- Both under one flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel filler is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Step five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Epworth Turbary already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or the Shell, ask the staff to help roll your car away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Epworth Turbary.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. The next junction is where to come off when you are on the M180, under 5 miles from Epworth Turbary. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Doncaster, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Epworth Turbary.
What occurs when we arrive in Epworth Turbary
Outside Epworth Primary Academy, close to Epworth Leisure Centre or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. You get that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, after that tank is emptied. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we arrive, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Epworth Turbary itself
Epworth Turbary is a locality in northern Lincolnshire, situated near the town of Epworth and close to the villages of Low Burnham and Haxey Carr. Epworth Turbary lies in a low-lying area, with an elevation of around 5 metres, and is characterized by detached housing. Epworth Turbary is located approximately 11.7 miles from the city of Doncaster and about 142.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Epworth Turbary and across Lincolnshire
Over DN postcodes, the teams covering Epworth Turbary — a small village — work the nearby locations too, Haxey Carr and Low Burnham among them. A postcode starting DN9 1 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Epworth Showground, a side street close to Epworth Community and Youth Hub: our technicians drain it where it stands. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Imperial Hall? Close to a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
For Epworth Turbary people, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Lincolnshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.