Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels around Water End, as well as Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, run on two fluids; the engine takes only your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying treats the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off The Rowans, or on the way home in the car park at Blacksmith Arms.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, keeps on. It's seconds, whether out in Holme upon Spalding Moor or right in the heart of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Rascal Moor or a forecourt around Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of cars mark which belongs in each inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check when you pick up a rental or fleet car — at Eastrington's car park, say — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in East Riding of Yorkshire that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and not rushed by High Street on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Don't go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Holme-on-Spalding-Moor?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. Leave your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it by itself starts your pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Rix or the Shell, ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. On your own drive around Holme-on-Spalding-Moor? Then the vehicle remains where it is.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M62, under 10 miles from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, that means the next junction. A short hop across Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is a smaller job than a run towards York, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, and what occurs next
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it outside Holme-upon-Spalding Moor Primary School, beside Holme Village Hall or at home, the van travels to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. On the phone call itself, you hear the quote — before anything else.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We don't go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. No money in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, briefly
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is a locality in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated in a low-lying area near the River Foulness. Holme-on-Spalding-Moor has a population of around 1456 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is located approximately 15 miles from the city of York, and its elevation is around 8 metres above sea level. Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is part of a wider rural area with nearby places including Moor End and Sand Hole.
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a small village, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor shares its vans surrounding areas — Moor End, Sand Hole — all the way through YO postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quickest of all: quote a YO43 4 postcode to our van.
The car stays put. Draining takes place right there, be it a driveway, a street by All Saints, or a lay-by towards Lilly Wood. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of St Peter.
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout East Riding of Yorkshire.