How It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Harle Syke
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done right where the car stands in Harle Syke, is usually all it takes when caught before your engine runs. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Marsden Height, as well as Harle Syke, carry on two liquids; the motor gets just the diesel. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
There's 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. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Harle Syke
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Townley Street before work, or in the car park at Hare & Hounds on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a new motor.
Nothing stops the tip after 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 decide it, in the middle of Harle Syke or out in Haggate.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Harle Syke forecourt or a drive out in Reedley, take a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- On many vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Brierfield, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever in Lancashire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Holgate Street, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both share a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Harle Syke?
Do not start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Flogas or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Harle Syke.
Already run? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. The next junction is the place to leave if you are on the M65, under 3 miles from Harle Syke. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Harle Syke is less work than a run of under 25 miles to Bradford, and so say.
Harle Syke: what happens when we arrive
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Briercliffe Primary School, near St James' Church or on your own drive. Which liquid went in, the amount, and whether it ran: we ask because the answers decide both work and quote. You hear that quote on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, after your tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears out unaided, however long it sits. Once the filter has been flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle is tested. Before leaving, our engineers start the engine and check that it's running properly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Harle Syke, briefly
Harle Syke is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated near the River Calder and surrounded by nearby places such as Haggate, Cockden, and Lane Bottom. Harle Syke has a population of approximately 4089 residents and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing. Harle Syke sits at an elevation of 221 metres, with the nearest city being Bradford, located around 18 miles away. Harle Syke is located in the North West region of England, about 181 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Harle Syke, and Lancashire beyond
Cockden and Lane Bottom are among the places around Harle Syke, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout BB postcodes. A postcode starting BB10 2 gets the van to you fastest.
No need to move the vehicle. Draining takes place right there, be it a drive, a road near Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, or a lay-by towards Nelson Golf Club. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Cuthbert.
Harle Syke motorists: the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Lancashire: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.