Granary Wharf: 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 the motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Granary Wharf. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Granary Wharf and Holbeck carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, again and again. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Granary Wharf
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running out leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Canal Wharf, perhaps outside The Hop on the way home that evening.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. It's a few seconds, be it in Camp Field or right in the heart of Granary Wharf.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Pottery Field or a forecourt around Granary Wharf.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Leeds, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in West Yorkshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Dark Neville Street, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- 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 is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Step five is out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Granary Wharf?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — JET, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help push the car clear, if you ask. On your own drive around Granary Wharf? Then the vehicle remains put.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the Inner Ring Road, under a mile from Granary Wharf, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Granary Wharf makes a smaller job than heading under a mile towards Leeds — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Granary Wharf, and what occurs next
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, whether by Lane End Primary School, near Birthplace of Commercial Rail or at home, our van travels to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three answers — which fluid, what amount, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. Nobody heads out until you have heard our price over the phone.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. After the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then the vehicle gets tested. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run need about half an hour once our engineers arrive. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Granary Wharf
Granary Wharf is a suburban area located on the riverside in West Yorkshire, close to the city centre of Leeds. Granary Wharf sits at an elevation of around 30 metres, adjacent to the River Aire and near to other local areas such as Camp Field and Steander. Granary Wharf is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing, reflecting its recent development as a residential area. Granary Wharf is well-connected, being only 0.5 miles from Leeds city centre and 168.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains about Granary Wharf, and West Yorkshire beyond
Leeds and Steander are among the towns near Granary Wharf, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout LS postcodes. Quickest of all: give a LS1 4 postcode for our van.
The vehicle remains put. Anywhere it sits — beside A Common Thread, in a layby heading to Verona Square, on a drive — that is where it gets drained. Assuming won't help at the back of Little Chimney, on a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
Granary Wharf people: the short version
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere across West Yorkshire.