Hoyland Common: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Keep your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your vehicle stands around Hoyland Common, is normally what it takes if caught before the motor runs. Here before the event? In that case what follows explains how it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to your motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen round Hoyland Common and Hoyland hold another liquid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel goes in at every filling station visit, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which filler to use. That gap is where the slip lives.
Hoyland Common: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Princess Street before work, or in the car park at Saville Square on the way home.
New-to-you motors come next, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Upper Hoyland or the middle of Hoyland Common, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Birdwell or a forecourt in Hoyland Common, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what goes in each inlet just there.
- The handbook shows where it is when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Elsecar? Ask the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever you are around South Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside Hoyland Road on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Leave your 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.
- Close the cap, and look once more — confirm the diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. After that, start the car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out step five entirely.
Hoyland Common: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief order, then. Top of it: the motor stays off. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on by itself runs your pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Shell, the BP or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Hoyland Common.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Hoyland Common lies under a mile from the M1; on it, take the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Sheffield, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Hoyland Common.
When we arrive around Hoyland Common, what happens?
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by Hoyland Common Primary School, near Hillcrest Community Centre or at home, the van travels to it. The answers decide this work and the quote, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run. That price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before leaving, our technicians start it and confirm that it's running smoothly.
If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Hoyland Common and where it is
Hoyland Common is a suburban area in South Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles north of Sheffield, and is characterized by its terraced housing stock. Hoyland Common sits at an elevation of around 155 metres, inland from the major cities of the region. Hoyland Common is close to nearby places such as Upper Hoyland, Tankersley, and Milton, and is home to a population of around 3288 people. Hoyland Common is located within the wider Sheffield urban area, about 148.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across South Yorkshire, Hoyland Common included
Being a residential suburb, Hoyland Common has the same vans as nearby places — Tankersley, Milton — all the way through S postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quickest of all: give a S74 0 postcode for the van.
Moving the vehicle isn't necessary. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street by Hoyland Leisure Centre, or a layby on the way to Bell Ground Wood. Guessing doesn't help behind St Peter, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
For Hoyland Common motorists, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across South Yorkshire.