Great Broughton: 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 engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Around Great Broughton, finding it before the engine turns normally leaves draining and a thorough flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many modern diesels in Stokesley, as well as Great Broughton, carry on two liquids; your motor takes just the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
There is a filler for each tank. 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. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the mistake happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Great Broughton?
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off High Street before work, or in the car park at The Jet Miner on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Great Broughton or out in Kirkby.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around Great Broughton or a driveway over in Market Place. A few seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- On plenty of motors, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Battersby's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Anywhere around North Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Kirkby Lane, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read it.
- The two behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on the diesel side stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Step five stays out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Great Broughton?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Jet or the Imperial, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the pump. If you're on your own drive in Great Broughton, leave it where it stands.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the A66(M), under 25 miles from Great Broughton, that means the next junction. A short hop across Great Broughton is a smaller job than a run towards Ripon, under 50 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Great Broughton: what happens when we arrive
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by Kirkby and Great Broughton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, beside Great Broughton Village Hall or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Those answers decide this work and the price, so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — before anything else.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, once that tank is drained. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing clears away unaided, no matter how long it sits. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of your vehicle. Next our engineers start the engine and check it runs properly before leaving.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Great Broughton and where it is
Great Broughton is a village situated on the banks of a river in North Yorkshire, with a mix of rural and residential areas at an elevation of around 92 metres. Great Broughton has a population of approximately 862 people, living in predominantly detached housing. Great Broughton is located near other small villages such as Kirkby and Little Broughton, and is about 26 miles from the city of Ripon. Great Broughton is also within a reasonable distance from larger towns, being around 207 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Great Broughton and across North Yorkshire
Little Broughton and Great Busby are among the places near Great Broughton, a village, that the same vans cover, throughout TS postcodes. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting TS9 7.
Moving the car isn't needed. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Lockey's Covert, a side street near Methodist Church: our engineers drain the car where it stands. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Parish Church of St Augustine, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Great Broughton drivers
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere across North Yorkshire.