Fair Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, keep your ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle sits around Fair Hill, is usually all it takes when caught before your motor runs. Reading in advance? Then what follows covers why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Scaws, like those in Fair Hill, carry on two fluids; your motor takes only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think which cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Fair Hill: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Monnington Way before work, or in the car park outside The Royal on the way home.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and once the pour begins, no part halts it. It takes a few seconds, be it in Townhead or bang in the heart of Fair Hill.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Fair Hill forecourt or a drive over in Castletown, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark which goes in each filler just there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Penrith.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around Cumbria, use this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Salkeld Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel filler stayed closed throughout. After that, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out step five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Fair Hill?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the engine stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Esso, the BP or somewhere else. Your own drive around Fair Hill is where it should stay.
When your motor has been run already, pull over safely then turn it off. Fair Hill lies under a mile from the M6; there, use the next exit. A short hop across Fair Hill is a smaller job than a run towards Carlisle, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Fair Hill, and what occurs next
Wherever your car came to rest, be it outside St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith, beside Gateway to Cemetery or at home, our van comes to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so we ask. The quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of it clears away on its own, however long it sits. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. Before we leave, our technicians start the car and make sure that it is running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need roughly half an hour once we arrive. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Fair Hill
Fair Hill is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Cumbria, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 3128 residents. Fair Hill sits at an elevation of 174 metres, near the towns of Penrith and Townhead, and is approximately 16.7 miles from Carlisle. Fair Hill is part of the wider North West region, and is located 244.4 miles from London. Fair Hill has a relatively small community, with nearby Gilwilly also being a notable neighbouring area.
Fair Hill and Cumbria: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout CA postcodes, our vans that cover Fair Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Gilwilly and Penrith included. Quote a postcode that starts CA11 8, and our van arrives quickest.
There's no need to shift your car. We drain it where it is — a side street close to St Catherine's Church, a lay-by on the way to Fairhill Playing Field, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Haydock Community Centre, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Fair Hill motorists, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Cumbria, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.