Fixby: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your engine hasn't run, it is emptied and fully cleaned where your car is in Fixby. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of newer diesels driven round Fixby and Sheepridge hold another fluid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles share a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
Fixby: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Broomfield Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Four Brothers.
Unfamiliar cars come second, too. Rentals, new motors and company motors put their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Fixby or out in Netheroyd Hill.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Fixby forecourt or a drive over in Woodhouse Hill, spend a few seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- On many vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Deighton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
For the day the light appears — anywhere you are in West Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Fairway, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two behind one flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Finish when that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly through the own spout.
- Only then, 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 your diesel side, stop there. Step five stays out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Fixby?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Asda or the The co-operative, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Fixby.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Fixby lies under a mile from the M62; on it, use the next exit. Mileage matters — a short hop across Fixby is a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Bradford — so say about how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers turn up in Fixby
Outside Fixby Junior and Infant School, near St Francis' Church and Community Hall, Fixby or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. The answers determine this work and the quote, and so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. No one sets off until you've had the quote over the phone.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. After your filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel goes in, and then the vehicle gets tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians go.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside 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 included in many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Fixby itself
Fixby is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Calder and close to the outskirts of Bradford. Fixby sits at an elevation of 174 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby Netheroyd Hill. Fixby has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by detached homes, and is located approximately 8 miles from Bradford city centre. Fixby is also around 165 miles from London, making it a commuter base for some residents.
Fixby and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Brackenhall and Cowcliffe are among the places around Fixby, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout HD postcodes. A postcode starting HD2 2 gets the van to you fastest.
There's no need to move the car. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Dick Wood, a side street near St Hilda's Church, Cowcliffe: our engineers drain the car where it sits. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Cowcliffe Methodist Church.
In short, for Fixby drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere in West Yorkshire.