Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kerfield: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Around Kerfield, finding it before your motor turns normally leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Here before the event? In that case the rest explains why it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads about Kerfield and Kings Meadows carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for every tank. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Kerfield: how it occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off The Bridges, perhaps outside The Cross Keys on the way home that evening.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
Third, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip starts, no part halts it. Peebles or the heart of Kerfield: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Kerfield forecourt or a drive out in Kings Muir, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark what belongs in which inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside the nearest station? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — wherever it is across Scottish Borders — a routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and not rushed by Station Bank at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently using its own spout.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
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.
Kerfield: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start your engine: that is where the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off as well, because on many diesels it by itself runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the BP or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Kerfield, leave the car where it stands.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Kerfield lies under 25 miles from the M8; there, use the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Edinburgh, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Kerfield.
Kerfield: what takes place when our engineers arrive
By the local primary school, near Scott Brash Sculpture or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. After that our technicians fire it up and confirm it runs properly before we go.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run take about half an hour after our engineers arrive. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Kerfield
Kerfield is a locality situated on the riverside in the Scottish Borders, with an elevation of 169 metres. Kerfield lies near several notable towns, including Peebles and the surrounding areas of Frankscroft and Craigerne. Kerfield is located approximately 20 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city. Kerfield has a population of around 1268 people, predominantly residing in flats.
AdBlue drains across Scottish Borders, Kerfield included
Over EH postcodes, our vans that cover Kerfield — a small village — work the surrounding locations too, Craigerne and Frankscroft among them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting EH45 8.
There's no need to move the car. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Tweed Green, a side street near Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre: we drain it where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Peebles Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Kerfield people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Scottish Borders, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103.