Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in John o Gaunts: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Around John o Gaunts, finding it before the motor runs usually leaves a drain and a full flush on the spot. Reading in advance? In that case what follows covers how it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about John o Gaunts and Woodlesford carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
There's a filler on each tank. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place the two together under one flap. Diesel gets filled on each filling station call-out, week in, week out. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around John o Gaunts: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
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 Temple Avenue before work, or in the car park at Rothwell Labour Club on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after begun, carries on. Whether it happens in Rothwell Haigh or the middle of John o Gaunts, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a John o Gaunts forecourt or a drive out in Oulton, take a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or company car — at Woodlesford's car park, perhaps — not once the warning comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever in West Yorkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Crescent Avenue at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Do not go on to stage five.
John o Gaunts: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Don't start the engine: that is how the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at Esso, Shell or another forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the vehicle away if asked. If you're on your own driveway around John o Gaunts, leave the vehicle where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. On the M1, under a mile from John o Gaunts, that means the next exit. A short hop across John o Gaunts is a smaller job than a run towards Leeds, under 5 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in John o Gaunts, and what happens next
Outside Holy Trinity Church of England Academy, Rothwell, near Rose Lund Community Centre or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. The answers determine the work and the price, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. Nobody sets off until you have had our quote over the phone.
Then that tank is drained and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and none of that clears away unaided, however long it sits. A test is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. The motor is started next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before we head off.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About John o Gaunts itself
John o Gaunts is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of around 65 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. John o Gaunts is located near the cities of Leeds and Rothwell, with nearby places including Rothwell Haigh and Churchfields. John o Gaunts has a population of approximately 3400 residents, who enjoy a relatively short commute to Leeds, which is around 4.4 miles away. John o Gaunts is also within reasonable distance of London, being around 165.4 miles away.
AdBlue drains about John o Gaunts, and West Yorkshire beyond
Throughout LS postcodes, the teams covering John o Gaunts — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Churchfields and Rothwell among them. Quickest of all: give a LS26 0 postcode for the van.
Your car stays where it is. Draining happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a road near St Marys, or a layby on the way to Rothwell Country Park. Guessing won't help at the back of Haigh Road Community Centre, on a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for John o Gaunts motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever around West Yorkshire: keep it off and ring 0333 366 0103.