AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Gateway Plaza: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Leave your engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Gateway Plaza. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many current diesels on the roads round Gateway Plaza and Honeywell carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to clean it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. It's in the gap that the error happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Gateway Plaza?
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Fitzwilliam Street, or heading home in the car park outside George And Dragon.
New-to-you vehicles are second, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it 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 pour, once started, keeps on. Whether it takes place in Barnsley or the middle of Gateway Plaza, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Pogmoor or a forecourt in Gateway Plaza.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you pick up a rental or company car — at Barnsley's car park, say — rather than once the warning comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in South Yorkshire that is.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Sackville Street on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have found the filler and read the cap.
- The two under a single flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel filler is still closed before raising the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Gateway Plaza?
Don't start the engine: that's how the short order of things starts. Keep the ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, 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 Gulf or the Morrisons, ask the staff to help push the vehicle away from the pump. At home in Gateway Plaza? So the car stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. The next junction means where to come off if you're on the M1, under 3 miles from Gateway Plaza. A short hop across Gateway Plaza is a smaller job than a run towards Wakefield, under 10 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians arrive in Gateway Plaza, what takes place?
Outside Holy Rood Catholic Primary School, close to Lamproom Theatre or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. What fluid went in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since the answers decide both work and price. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. After the filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. Next our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs correctly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive, as long as your motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Gateway Plaza, for a moment
Gateway Plaza is a locality in South Yorkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 119 metres, approximately 9 miles from Wakefield and 152 miles from London. Gateway Plaza is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's historical development patterns. Gateway Plaza is located near other localities such as Barnsley, Shaw Lands, and Old Town, and has a population of around 4414 residents.
AdBlue drains about Gateway Plaza, and South Yorkshire beyond
Shaw Lands and Old Town are among the places around Gateway Plaza, a small village, that the same vans cover, throughout S postcodes. A postcode starting S70 2 gets the van to you fastest.
The car remains put. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Pinfold Steps, a side street close to Barnsley Law Courts: our technicians drain it where it sits. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St Georges Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Gateway Plaza drivers
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around South Yorkshire.