How It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Keadby
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when the motor hasn't turned, it is emptied and fully flushed where the car sits around Keadby. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that is how many newer diesels around Keadby and Derrythorpe carry, with diesel for your engine. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Many of motors have a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station call-out, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think what cap it needs. It's in the gap that the slip lives.
Keadby: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Chesswick Avenue before work, or in the car park outside Jolly Sailor (Closed) on the way home.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, keeps on. Gunness or the middle of Keadby: it takes the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Berkeley or a forecourt in Keadby, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Althorpe? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lincolnshire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Trent View.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel side stays closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Keadby?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Esso, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Keadby.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next junction means the place to come off if you're on the A1077(M), under 3 miles from Keadby. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Keadby is less work than a run of under 25 miles to Doncaster, and so say.
Our arrival in Keadby, and what occurs next
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Althorpe and Keadby Primary School, near Keadby & Althorpe Workingmen's Club or on your own drive. Which liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the replies decide the work and quote. The quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. With AdBlue that matters 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. A test comes at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Keadby, for a moment
Keadby is a village situated on the banks of the River Trent in Lincolnshire, with nearby settlements including Gunness, Burringham, and Althorpe. Keadby lies at a low elevation of around 5 metres, close to the Yorkshire and the Humber region's industrial heartland. Keadby has a population of approximately 1212 residents, living in predominantly semi-detached housing. Keadby is located near the city of Doncaster, which is 16.8 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Keadby and across Lincolnshire
Keadby is a village, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Burringham and Althorpe among them, across the DN postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting DN17 3.
Your car does not need to move. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road near Keadby & Althorpe Working Mens Club, or a lay-by towards New Generation Park. Guessing doesn't help behind St Barnabas, on a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
For Keadby drivers, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere around Lincolnshire: switch the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.