High Gallowhill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Keep the engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. In High Gallowhill, catching it before your engine runs normally leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels around Lenzie, as well as High Gallowhill, run on two liquids; the engine gets just your diesel. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in High Gallowhill: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Pinewood Avenue, or on the way home in the car park at the pub in the village.
New-to-you cars are next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and after the pour begins, no part stops it. It's seconds, be it in Boghead or right in the centre of High Gallowhill.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these first, at a forecourt in High Gallowhill or a drive out in Orchard Park. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Lenzie.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — wherever it is in East Dunbartonshire — a routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Maple Drive.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It seems 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.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in High Gallowhill already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of 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 sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the JET or the Shell, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the pump. Your own driveway around High Gallowhill is where it stays.
When the motor has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. Leave the M80 — under 3 miles out of High Gallowhill — at the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing High Gallowhill is smaller work than a run of under 10 miles towards Glasgow, and so say.
Our arrival around High Gallowhill, and what takes place next
By the local primary school, near Saint Cyprian's or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Which fluid got in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since the replies decide both work and price. The price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. A test comes at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Next our technicians fire it up and confirm it runs correctly before we leave.
If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About High Gallowhill itself
High Gallowhill is a suburban area situated on the outskirts of Glasgow, near the River Kelvin in East Dunbartonshire. High Gallowhill sits at an elevation of 56 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. High Gallowhill is located close to nearby places such as Boghead, The Greens, and Westermains, and is approximately 5 miles from Glasgow city centre. High Gallowhill has a population of around 2473 residents.
AdBlue drains across East Dunbartonshire, High Gallowhill included
Over G postcodes, our teams that cover High Gallowhill — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Westermains and The Greens among them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting G66 4.
There's no need to move your car. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a street near Lenzie Hall, or a layby towards Boghead Wood. Awkward to explain, like the back of Lenzie Union Parish Church? Close to a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
High Gallowhill people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere in East Dunbartonshire: switch it off and call 0333 366 0103.