Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Glenfield: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Glenfield. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds the motor — but plenty of modern diesels seen round Glenfield and Groby hold another fluid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Glenfield?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
On a drive off Station Road before work, or in the car park outside Gynsills Farm on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode follows.
Unfamiliar vehicles come second, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it 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 pour after it has started. Anstey or the heart of Glenfield: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Western Park or a forecourt around Glenfield, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it beside the diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook says where.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Leicester? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Leicestershire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Leicester Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — making sure the diesel cap remained closed the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Skip stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Glenfield?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. 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 your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Morrisons or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Glenfield.
When the engine has been run by now, stop safely and turn the vehicle off. Leave the M1 — under 3 miles out of Glenfield — at the next exit. A short hop across Glenfield is a smaller job than a run towards Leicester, under 5 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when we get there in Glenfield
Outside The Hall School, close to County Hall - Leicestershire County Council or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. The replies decide the work and our price, and so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. Nobody sets off until you have heard our quote over the phone.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears away on its own, however long it is left. The filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. Your engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs properly, all before we head off.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine hasn't run need about half an hour once we arrive. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Glenfield
Glenfield is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Leicester, situated near the River Soar in Leicestershire. Glenfield sits at an elevation of 78 metres, with its riverside setting influencing the local environment. Glenfield is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Glenfield is close to nearby places such as Anstey, New Parks, and Beaumont Leys, and is approximately 3 miles from Leicester city centre.
AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, Glenfield included
Glenfield is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, New Parks and Beaumont Leys among them, across the LE postcode area. Give a postcode beginning LE3 8, and the van arrives quickest.
Your car does not need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Glenfield Sports Ground, a side street near Sole Fitness: our engineers drain it where it is. Assuming won't help behind Glenfield Libary, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; phone and check.
In short, for Glenfield people
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it is, wherever in Leicestershire: keep it off and phone 0333 366 0103.