AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Girdle Toll: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Girdle Toll, is normally what it needs if caught before your engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the how to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many modern diesels around Bourtreehill, like those in Girdle Toll, carry on two liquids; the engine takes only the diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both together under one flap. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Girdle Toll: how it takes place
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Stotfield Road, or heading home in the car park at the pub in the village.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar car.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. It takes seconds, be it out in Sourlie or right in the heart of Girdle Toll.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Whether a Girdle Toll forecourt or a drive out in Doura, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook says where.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Irvine, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever in North Ayrshire, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Lochlibo Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- The two under one flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Girdle Toll?
Don't start the engine: that is how the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the BP, the Esso or somewhere else. Your own driveway around Girdle Toll is where it should stay.
When your motor has run by now, pull over safely and switch the car off. The next exit is where to come off when you are on the M77, under 10 miles from Girdle Toll. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Girdle Toll is smaller a job than a run of under 25 miles to Glasgow, and so tell us.
What happens when our technicians turn up around Girdle Toll
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to Relief Parish Church or on your own drive. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. Nobody heads out until you've heard the quote over the phone.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a full flush of the system. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of it washes out unaided, no matter how long it sits. Once the filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. Then our engineers start the engine and check it runs smoothly before we leave.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Girdle Toll
Girdle Toll is a suburban area in North Ayrshire, situated on the coast at an elevation of 27 metres, with views out to the Firth of Clyde. Girdle Toll lies near the settlements of Sourlie, Perceton, and Stanecastle, and is connected to the wider urban area around Glasgow, which is 22 miles away. Girdle Toll has a mix of housing types, but terraced housing is predominant in the area. Girdle Toll is located approximately 339 miles northwest of London, making it a relatively distant commuter location.
Girdle Toll and North Ayrshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Girdle Toll is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Perceton and Stanecastle among them, across the KA postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts KA11 2, and the van gets there fastest.
Your car remains where it is. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Lawthorn Park, a side street close to St John Ogilvie Parish Church: our engineers drain it where it stands. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Bourtreehill Library.
For Girdle Toll motorists, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout North Ayrshire.