Gilberdyke: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, keep the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, when the motor has not run, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where the vehicle is in Gilberdyke. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Gilberdyke and Bellasize carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler for every tank. Plenty of motors share a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every forecourt visit, again and again. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The slip lives in that gap.
Gilberdyke: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Clementhorpe Lane before work, or in the car park outside Cross Keys Inn heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part halts the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Bennetland or the middle of Gilberdyke, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Gilberdyke forecourt or a drive over in Scalby, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- On many vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it lives when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — at the nearest station's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across East Riding of Yorkshire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Bellasize Park.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both share a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and look again that the diesel cap never opened off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Leave out step five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Gilberdyke?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the Triangle Motor Co., ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Gilberdyke.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Gilberdyke sits under a mile from the M62; there, take the first junction. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Gilberdyke is a smaller job than heading under 25 miles towards Kingston upon Hull — so say about how far it went.
When our engineers get there in Gilberdyke, what happens?
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Gilberdyke Primary School, near Gilberdyke Village Hall or on your own drive, the van comes to it. We ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it has run, since the replies settle the work and the price. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. 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. Once your filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel is added, and then your car gets tested. Before we leave, our engineers start it and make sure that it's running correctly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor has not run take about half an hour once our engineers are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Gilberdyke itself
Gilberdyke is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated inland at a low elevation of around 5 metres. Gilberdyke lies approximately 16.7 miles west of Kingston upon Hull, and is part of a network of small settlements including Bennetland, Staddlethorpe, and Cheapsides. Gilberdyke has a population of around 2191 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing.
Gilberdyke and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout HU postcodes, the vans covering Gilberdyke — a rural village — work the surrounding locations too, Cheapsides and Staddlethorpe included. Fastest of all: give a HU15 2 postcode for our van.
Your car does not need to shift. The drain takes place right there, be it a driveway, a street by St Stephen's, or a layby towards Ings View Sports Field. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Newport Village Hall.
Gilberdyke motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in East Riding of Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.