Gardeners Lands: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the motor has not run, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle sits in Gardeners Lands. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it happens and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Gardeners Lands and Abbey Parks carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Gardeners Lands: how it happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Campbell Street before work, or in the car park at Thirsty Kirsty's on the way home.
Unfamiliar vehicles come next, too. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Headwell or the middle of Gardeners Lands: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Beveridgewell or a forecourt in Gardeners Lands.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you collect a hire car or fleet car — from Dunfermline City's car park, say — not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere across Fife the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Albany Street, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Gardeners Lands already?
Short list, then. First: your motor stays off. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the BP, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. At home around Gardeners Lands? Then the vehicle remains where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the A823(M), under 3 miles from Gardeners Lands, that means the next junction. Distance matters — a quick hop across Gardeners Lands is a smaller job than driving under a mile to Dunfermline — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Gardeners Lands, what occurs?
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near TK Maxx, or by the local primary school. Which liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those replies decide both work and price. Nobody heads out before you have heard our price by phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after your tank is emptied. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of that washes away on its own, no matter how long it sits. After your filter has been flushed — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. The motor is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before we leave.
Unrun cars usually mean a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Gardeners Lands
Gardeners Lands is a suburban area situated on the outskirts of Dunfermline in Fife, with a mix of flat housing and local amenities. Gardeners Lands sits near the coast, at an elevation of around 97 metres, and is close to nearby places such as Headwell and Castleblair Park. Gardeners Lands is a relatively small community, with a population of approximately 5578 people, and is located near the city centre of Dunfermline. Gardeners Lands benefits from its proximity to Dunfermline, which provides access to a range of services and facilities.
Gardeners Lands and Fife: AdBlue drains across the area
Over KY postcodes, the vans that cover Gardeners Lands — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Dunfermline and Castleblair Park among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting KY12 0.
Shifting your car is not necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Dunfermline Public Park, a side street near Dunfermline Sheriff Court: our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Carnegie Leisure Centre, close to a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
Gardeners Lands drivers: the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Fife, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.