Fenay Bridge: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, if the engine has not turned, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle sits around Fenay Bridge. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads around Fenay Bridge and Gawthorpe carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for the two, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Much less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Fenay Bridge
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off Jumble Wood before work, or in the car park at The Fenay Bridge on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode follows.
Unfamiliar motors are next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, carries on. Whether it happens in Lepton or the middle of Fenay Bridge, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Fenay Bridge forecourt or a drive over in Cowmes, take a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- On many vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it beside the diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Stocksmoor? Ask whoever drove it last before you set off, rather than once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are across West Yorkshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never in a rush beside Common End Lane at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found the filler and read the cap.
- Both under a single flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel side stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using its built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Don't go on to step five.
Fenay Bridge: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so leave it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Esso, the Morrisons or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Fenay Bridge.
Already run? Pull over once it's safe, then switch off. On the M62, under 5 miles from Fenay Bridge, that means the next exit. Mileage matters — a short hop across Fenay Bridge makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles to Wakefield — so say about how far it went.
What happens when our technicians get there in Fenay Bridge
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, beside St John's Church, or outside Lepton CofE Primary Academy. Both the work and our quote depend on three answers — which fluid, which quantity, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. On the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of dispatch.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes out on its own, however long it sits. After the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then your vehicle is tested. Before we go, our engineers start it and make sure that it's running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after we arrive, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Fenay Bridge itself
Fenay Bridge is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 131 metres. Fenay Bridge lies approximately 9.7 miles from Wakefield and 161.2 miles from London, with nearby places including Lepton, Rowley Hill, and Dogley Lane. Fenay Bridge has a population of around 3187 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Fenay Bridge forms a residential community with a mix of local amenities and services.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Fenay Bridge included
Throughout HD postcodes, the teams that cover Fenay Bridge — a residential suburb — work the nearby locations too, Dogley Lane and Rowley Hill included. Quickest of all: give a HD8 0 postcode to our van.
The car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St Michael & St Helen, a lay-by on the way to Lepton Great Wood, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Highburton Cross, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Fenay Bridge drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout West Yorkshire.