Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Habrough: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Habrough, is usually all it needs if caught before your motor runs. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads around Habrough and Immingham carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of motors share a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Habrough
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car 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 Cravens Lane before work, or in the car park at The Station Inn on the way home.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after begun, keeps on. Brocklesby or the middle of Habrough: it is the same few seconds either way.
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 driveway in North Killingholme or a forecourt around Habrough.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at the nearest station? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere in Lincolnshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Kesteven Court.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then check once more — making sure the diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Habrough?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
At a forecourt — JET, another forecourt nearby or any other — the attendants will normally help push the car clear, when you ask. Your own drive in Habrough is the place it stays.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Habrough sits under 10 miles from the M180; there, take the next junction. A short hop across Habrough is a smaller job than a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we arrive in Habrough, what occurs?
Outside Killingholme Primary School, close to St Margaret or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. What liquid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since the answers set both work and price. You hear that quote on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. A test is at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or changed as needed. Before we leave, our engineers start it and check that it's running properly.
If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, have a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Habrough, briefly
Habrough is a small village in North Lincolnshire, situated near the Humber Estuary and approximately 9.9 miles from Kingston upon Hull. Habrough sits at a low elevation of around 17 metres above sea level, in an area of gently rolling countryside. Habrough has a population of around 591 people, with a predominance of detached housing. Habrough is close to nearby villages such as Brocklesby and Ulceby Skitter.
AdBlue drains in Habrough and across Lincolnshire
Habrough is a rural village, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, South Killingholme and Ulceby Skitter among them, across the DN postcode area. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting DN40 3.
Your car remains where it is. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Little Park Habrough, a side street near All Saints: we drain the vehicle where it sits. Assuming doesn't help at the back of Cotham Priory, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
Habrough motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere across Lincolnshire.