AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kelfield: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done right where your vehicle sits around Kelfield, is usually all it needs when found before the engine runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Not one liquid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels near Kelfield and North Ewster carry, with diesel for your engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the gas.
Different tanks, different fillers. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both together behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Kelfield?
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off East Ferry Road before work, or in the car park outside The Jenny Wren Inn on the way home.
Unfamiliar vehicles come next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap 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. Susworth or the middle of Kelfield: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Kelfield forecourt or a drive over in Wildsworth, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it is if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Althorpe, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Anywhere around Lincolnshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of North Street.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Stop once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip gently using its built-in spout.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Kelfield already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at the nearest petrol station, Shell or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing your car away when asked. Your own driveway around Kelfield is where it stays.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Kelfield lies under 5 miles from the M180; there, take the first junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Kelfield is smaller work than a run of under 25 miles towards Doncaster, and so tell us.
What occurs when our engineers arrive around Kelfield
Our van comes to the car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near Coronation Hall, or by St Martin's Cofe Primary Academy. Both the work and the quote rest on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then the tank is cleared and your system cleaned thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of it clears away on its own, however long it is left. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our engineers go.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run take about half an hour once our engineers are there. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Kelfield itself
Kelfield is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Lincolnshire, with an elevation of around 6 metres above sea level. Kelfield lies near the villages of Susworth, Owston Ferry, and East Ferry, and is approximately 15.6 miles from the city of Doncaster. Kelfield has a population of around 602 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Kelfield is located in a rural area, some 140.3 miles north of London.
Kelfield and Lincolnshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Kelfield is a rural hamlet, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Owston Ferry and East Ferry among them, across the DN postcode area. A postcode starting DN9 1 gets the van to you fastest.
Shifting the car isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a street near St Martin, or a layby towards Laughton Forest. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Andrew's Church.
The short version for Kelfield people
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Lincolnshire.