Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Foresters Lodge: Why It Happens
Pause here a minute when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Foresters Lodge, finding it before your engine runs normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Reading before the event? In that case what follows explains how it comes about and how to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Foresters Lodge and Whinnyknowe carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Foresters Lodge
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
On a drive off Cadham Road before work, or in the car park outside The Stanes heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Pitcoudie or the middle of Foresters Lodge: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Queensway or a forecourt in Foresters Lodge.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — plenty of cars show what goes in each filler just there.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Markinch, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — wherever it is around Fife — a simple routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Iona Park.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Finish when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Don't carry on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Foresters Lodge?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
On a forecourt — Asda, Shell or another — the attendants will usually help roll your car clear, when you ask. At home in Foresters Lodge? Then the vehicle remains where it is.
Already started? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. Foresters Lodge lies under 10 miles from the M90; there, use the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Foresters Lodge is less a job than a run of under 15 miles towards Dunfermline, and so say.
Our arrival in Foresters Lodge, and what takes place next
Wherever your car came to rest, be it outside the local primary school, near Elephant group or at home, our van travels to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. The quote comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Before we leave, our technicians start the car and make sure that it is running properly.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Foresters Lodge itself
Foresters Lodge is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Fife, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 3290 residents. Foresters Lodge sits at an elevation of 101 metres, close to nearby places such as Pitcoudie, Leslie Parks, and Cadham. Foresters Lodge is located near the city of Dunfermline, which is approximately 14.5 miles away. Foresters Lodge is also relatively distant from major cities like London, being around 347.5 miles away.
Foresters Lodge and Fife: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Foresters Lodge shares its vans surrounding areas — Leslie Parks, Cadham — right across KY postcodes and the wider area beyond. Quickest of all: give a KY7 6 postcode for the van.
The vehicle remains where it is. The drain happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a road by Cadham Neighbourhood Centre, or a lay-by on the way to Pitcoudie Roundabout. Tricky to explain, like the back of Crocodiles? By a border? Checking is better than guessing, and so ring.
Foresters Lodge motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Fife.