Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Keddington: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the engine hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly purged where your vehicle is around Keddington. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — handy if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads round Keddington and Alvingham carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think what cap to use. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Keddington: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Alvingham Road, or heading home in the car park outside The Woolpack.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as readily, and once the pour begins, nothing halts it. It's seconds, be it in Keddington Corner or right in the heart of Keddington.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Keddington forecourt or a drive out in North Cockerington, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside the nearest station.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light appears — anywhere you are across Lincolnshire — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Grange Lane on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly using its own spout.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Don't carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Keddington?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of your tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the BP, ask the attendants to help push your car away from the petrol pump. If you're on your own driveway around Keddington, leave it where it is.
When your motor has run already, pull over somewhere safe and turn the vehicle off. Come off the M180 — under 25 miles out of Keddington — at the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Lincoln, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Keddington.
Our arrival in Keddington, and what happens next
Outside Lacey Gardens Junior Academy, close to Louth Abbey or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, because the answers decide this work and our price. During the call itself, you hear the quote — ahead of anything else.
Then your tank is drained and the system rinsed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Keddington, briefly
Keddington is a small locality in Lincolnshire, situated on the riverside at a low elevation of around 12 metres. Keddington lies near the villages of Keddington Corner and Stewton, and is also close to the market town of Louth. Keddington has a population of approximately 516 people, with a predominance of semi-detached housing.
AdBlue drains around Keddington, and Lincolnshire beyond
Throughout LN postcodes, the teams covering Keddington — a small village — work the surrounding locations too, Louth and Stewton included. Fastest of all: quote a LN11 7 postcode to our van.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. The drain happens on the spot, whether a drive, a street near St. Margaret's Church, or a lay-by on the way to The Gatherums. Awkward to explain, like the back of Louth Youth Centre? By a border? Checking is better than assuming, and so ring.
Keddington people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it stands, anywhere across Lincolnshire: switch the car off and call 0333 366 0103.