Why It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in High Crosshill
Keep the motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in High Crosshill. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your engine — but many modern diesels driven about High Crosshill and Gallowflat carry another liquid as well. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Different tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of vehicles 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 petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in High Crosshill
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a driveway off Broomieknowe Drive before work, or in the car park outside The Croft Bar & Restaurant on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and once the pour begins, nothing stops it. It's seconds, be it in Burnside or bang in the heart of High Crosshill.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in High Burnside or a forecourt in High Crosshill.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- Cannot see it beside the diesel filler? Then look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Whoever had it before knows. Ask when you pick up a rental or company car — at Burnside's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere in South Lanarkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Albany Drive at the roadside.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in High Crosshill already?
Short list, then. Top of that: your motor stays off. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the base rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Esso, BP or another — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. Your own driveway around High Crosshill is the place it should stay.
Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then turn off. Leave the M74 — under a mile out of High Crosshill — at the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Glasgow, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across High Crosshill.
When our technicians arrive in High Crosshill, what takes place?
Wherever your car came to rest, be it by the local primary school, near CWGC Cross of Sacrifice or on your own drive, our van comes to it. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since the replies decide this work and our price. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — before dispatch.
Then the tank is emptied and your system rinsed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once we get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About High Crosshill
High Crosshill is a locality situated on the riverside in South Lanarkshire, with an elevation of 56 metres and a mix of semi-detached housing. High Crosshill lies close to the city of Glasgow, approximately 3.3 miles away, and is near other localities such as Burnside and Spittal. High Crosshill has a population of around 2490 residents and is part of the wider Glasgow urban area. High Crosshill is located relatively far from London, at a distance of 341.4 miles.
AdBlue drains in High Crosshill and across South Lanarkshire
High Crosshill is a small village, and the teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Spittal and Bankhead among them, across the G postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting G73 3.
Shifting the car is not needed. Draining happens right there, be it a driveway, a road by Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain, or a layby on the way to Overtoun Park. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Rutherglen Lawn Tennis Club, ring and ask instead of assuming.
For High Crosshill motorists, the short version
First, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across South Lanarkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — and so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.