Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kentrigg: Why It Occurs
Pause reading a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor has not run, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where the vehicle is around Kentrigg. Reading in advance? In that case what follows explains why it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many modern diesels on the roads about Kentrigg and Sandylands carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
There is a filler on each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur around Kentrigg?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Burneside Road, perhaps outside IBIS Sports And Social Club on the way home after work.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
No part stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Kentrigg or out in Hallgarth.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Kentrigg forecourt or a driveway out in Burneside, spend a couple of seconds over these before any is poured in.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- On many motors, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what belongs in each filler right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Kendal.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the light appears — wherever it is in Cumbria — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Bramble Close, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel filler remained shut the whole time. After that, start the car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Skip step five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Kentrigg?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where fuel is taken from.
The attendants at Sainsbury's, Ullswater Road Garage or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push your car away if asked. Your own drive around Kentrigg is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. The next exit is the place to come off if you are on the M6, under 5 miles from Kentrigg. A short hop across Kentrigg is a smaller job than a run towards Lancaster, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Kentrigg, and what takes place next
Outside St Thomas's CofE Primary School, close to Hallgarth Community Centre or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — before dispatch.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. That is why it matters more. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. After that our technicians fire it up and check it runs correctly before we leave.
If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Kentrigg and where it is
Kentrigg is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Cumbria, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Kentrigg sits at an elevation of 68 metres, near the towns of Kendal and Lancaster, and is part of the wider North West region. Kentrigg is located close to other nearby places such as Hallgarth and Mintsfeet, and is approximately 224 miles from London. Kentrigg has a population of around 2594 residents.
AdBlue drains around Kentrigg and across Cumbria
Being a residential suburb, Kentrigg has the same vans as surrounding areas — Mintsfeet, Kendal — right across LA postcodes and the wider area around them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LA9 6.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. Anywhere it stands — near Lakeland Climbing Centre, in a layby heading to Jubilee Recreation Ground, at home — that is where it is cleared. Guessing won't help at the back of Kingdom Hall, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
Kentrigg motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere around Cumbria.