Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hillstown: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, keep the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done just where the car sits around Hillstown, is normally all it takes if found before your motor runs. Here in advance? In that case what follows covers why it comes about and how to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels around Hillstown and Scarcliffe run, with diesel for your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
There's a filler on each tank. 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. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Hillstown
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the 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 West View before work, or in the car park at Blue Bell 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 hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Hillstown or out in Bolsover.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt in Hillstown or a driveway over in New Bolsover. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it beside the diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Langwith - Whaley Thorns? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever across Derbyshire, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Mansfield Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- Both behind a single flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Hillstown already?
Do not start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. Keep the ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
The staff at Texaco, The Co-operative or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car clear when asked. At home in Hillstown? So the vehicle remains where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. Hillstown sits under 3 miles from the M1; on it, use the next exit. Mileage matters — a short hop across Hillstown makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles towards Sheffield — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we turn up around Hillstown, what happens?
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by Bolsover Church of England Junior School, near Hillstown Village Hall or at home, the van travels to it. Our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because the answers settle the work and the price. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of it washes out unaided, however long it sits. After the filter is cleaned — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then your car gets tested. Before leaving, we fire it up and make sure that it's running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as the engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Hillstown itself
Hillstown is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated inland at an elevation of 176 metres, approximately 13.5 miles from Sheffield. Hillstown is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock and is located near other local places such as Bolsover, Palterton, and Carr Vale. Hillstown has a population of around 2844 residents and is about 128.1 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Hillstown and across Derbyshire
Over S postcodes, our vans covering Hillstown — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Carr Vale and Palterton included. Quickest of all: give a S44 6 postcode for our van.
Your car doesn't need to shift. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a street near Parish Rooms, or a layby towards Hornscroft Park. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Mary and St Laurence, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Hillstown people
Pour nothing till you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Derbyshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.