AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Gallatown: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Gallatown. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels in Dysart, like those in Gallatown, run on two liquids; the engine takes only your diesel. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
There's a filler for every tank. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Gallatown?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and running dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Falkland View, or outside The Elbow Room on the way home that evening.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Whether it happens in West Gallatown or the middle of Gallatown, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Smeaton or a forecourt in Gallatown.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it next to the diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Glenrothes with Thornton? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Fife that is.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Oswald Road.
- 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 diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Gallatown?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the BP or the Asda, ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. Your own drive in Gallatown is the place it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M90, under 10 miles from Gallatown, that means the next exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Edinburgh, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Gallatown.
When we arrive around Gallatown, what takes place?
Outside the local primary school, close to Fife Ice Arena or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Those replies settle the work and the price, and so our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run. Nobody heads out before you've heard our quote by phone.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it washes away unaided, however long it sits. Filter flushed or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. Before leaving, we start the engine and make sure that it is running smoothly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run need roughly half an hour after our engineers are there. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Gallatown and where it is
Gallatown is a coastal suburban area in Fife, situated near the towns of West Gallatown and Sinclairtown. Gallatown has a relatively low elevation of 77 metres and is located approximately 12.7 miles from Edinburgh. Gallatown is characterized by its predominant housing type, which is flats, and is part of the larger urban area surrounding Edinburgh. Gallatown is also near the community of Boreland, and its population is approximately 3189 residents.
AdBlue drains around Gallatown and across Fife
Gallatown is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Sinclairtown and Boreland among them, across the KY postcode area. Quickest of all: quote a KY1 3 postcode for our van.
Moving your car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Randolph Playing Fields, a side street near Gallatown Community Hub: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Tricky to explain, like the back of Windmill Library? Close to a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
For Gallatown motorists, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it stands, anywhere around Fife.