Kaimhill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your engine and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it is drained and fully flushed where the vehicle is around Kaimhill. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Not one fluid but two: that is how many modern diesels near Kaimhill and Ruthrieston run, with diesel for your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler to use. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Kaimhill: how it occurs
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Kaimhill Road before work, or in the car park at Brig 'O' Dee on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car 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.
Nothing 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. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Garthdee or right in the heart of Kaimhill.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Seafield or a forecourt in Kaimhill.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you collect a rental or fleet car — at Aberdeen's car park, perhaps — not once the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Aberdeen City that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Auchinyell Gardens, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- The two under one flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and check again that the diesel cap never opened off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Kaimhill?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
On a forecourt — Asda, Sainsbury's or another — the attendants will normally help push the car away, if you ask. At home in Kaimhill? Then the vehicle stays where it is.
Where the engine has been run by now, pull over safely then switch the vehicle off. The next junction means the place to leave when you are on the M90, over 50 miles from Kaimhill. A short hop across Kaimhill is a smaller job than a run towards Aberdeen, under 3 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Kaimhill: what occurs when our engineers arrive
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, close to Ruthrieston West Church or on your own driveway. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since those replies settle this work and our quote. That quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Then the tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away unaided. Hence it matters more. Once your filter has been flushed — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally your car is tested. Your engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our engineers leave.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take about half an hour once our technicians are there. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Kaimhill itself
Kaimhill is a coastal suburban area in Aberdeen City, situated approximately 2.2 miles from Aberdeen city centre. Kaimhill sits at an elevation of 27 metres, overlooking the coastal landscape. Kaimhill is characterised by its predominantly flat-type housing, which accommodates a population of around 6395 residents. Kaimhill is located near other suburban areas, including Garthdee, Mannofield, and Braeside.
Kaimhill and Aberdeen City: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Kaimhill shares its vans nearby places — Mannofield, Braeside — all the way across AB postcodes and the wider area beyond. A postcode starting AB10 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The car remains put. Wherever it sits — beside Inchgarth Community Centre, on a lay-by heading to Aberdeenshire Cricket Club, on a drive — that is where it gets cleared. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Garthdee Ski Centre.
For Kaimhill drivers, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Aberdeen City.