AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hoyland: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page aside a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your vehicle stands in Hoyland, is usually what it needs when caught before the motor runs. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of newer diesels in Elsecar, like those in Hoyland, run on two liquids; the engine takes just the diesel. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in on every forecourt call-out, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which filler to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
Hoyland: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off King Street, perhaps at The Old Bank on the way home that evening.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the pour once it has started. Milton or the middle of Hoyland: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Hoyland forecourt or a drive out in Upper Hoyland, take a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of motors, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it beside the diesel inlet? In that case look beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Elsecar, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across South Yorkshire that is.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Market Street.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Stop when the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, pour gently using its built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Skip stage five altogether.
Hoyland: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start your engine: that's how the short order of things begins. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Brobot Hoyland Service Station, Shell or any other — the staff will usually help roll the car away, when you ask. Your own driveway in Hoyland is where it should stay.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M1 — under 3 miles out of Hoyland — at the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Hoyland is smaller a job than a trip of under 10 miles towards Sheffield, and so tell us.
When our engineers arrive in Hoyland, what takes place?
Outside Greenfield Primary School, close to Faith Aglow or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. That quote comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
The system is then purged thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
If your motor hasn't run, most 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 at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Hoyland itself
Hoyland is a locality in South Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles north of Sheffield, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Hoyland sits inland, with an elevation of around 136 metres, and is close to nearby places such as Milton, Jump, and Platts Common. Hoyland has a population of around 3438 residents, and is located about 148 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains around Hoyland, and South Yorkshire beyond
Over S postcodes, our vans that cover Hoyland — a small village — work the nearby spots too, Platts Common and Jump included. A postcode starting S74 9 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the vehicle isn't necessary. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Hoyland Market, a lay-by on the way to The Forge Recreation Ground, a drive. Assuming won't help at the back of Hoyland Library, on a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
Hoyland people: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in South Yorkshire.