Fearnville: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. In Fearnville, finding it before your engine runs usually means draining and a thorough flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many modern diesels seen round Fearnville and Beechwood carry another fluid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
There's a filler for every tank. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur in Fearnville?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run out means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Fearnville Drive, or outside The Orchard on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a strange 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 after it has started. Whether it takes place in Hollin Park or the middle of Fearnville, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Fearnville or a drive over in Gipton. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many cars 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 shows which it lives if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Cross Gates? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the light appears — wherever you are in West Yorkshire — a routine to follow.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Fearnville Terrace.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Skip stage five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Fearnville?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things begins. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of the tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Asda, BP or another — the attendants will usually help push your car away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Fearnville.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Fearnville sits under 3 miles from the Inner Ring Road; on it, use the first exit. A short hop across Fearnville is a smaller job than a run towards Leeds, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians arrive in Fearnville
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside St Nicholas Catholic Primary School, close to Fearnville Leisure Centre or on your own drive. The replies determine the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run. On the call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of dispatch.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter flushed or, where needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Fearnville, briefly
Fearnville is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Aire and close to the city of Leeds. Fearnville has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Fearnville is located near several other suburban areas, including Hollin Park, Brooklands, and Oakwood, and is about 2.9 miles from Leeds city centre.
AdBlue drains round Fearnville, and West Yorkshire beyond
Brooklands and Oakwood are among the towns near Fearnville, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout LS postcodes. Quickest of all: give a LS8 3 postcode for the van.
No need to shift the vehicle. We drain it where it is — a side street near P.C. Ian Broadhurst † 26 December 2003, a lay-by on the way to Arthur's Rein, a drive. Assuming doesn't help behind Moyes Centre, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In short, for Fearnville drivers
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere in West Yorkshire.