Kimberworth: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Kimberworth, catching it before the motor turns normally means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many newer diesels around Jordon, like those in Kimberworth, carry on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two together behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what filler it needs. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place in Kimberworth
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off High Street before work, or in the car park at The Colin on the way home.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, carries on. Whether it takes place in Richmond Park or the middle of Kimberworth, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Meadow Hall or a forecourt around Kimberworth.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Meadowhall? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — wherever you are in South Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Farm View Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and 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 is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly through the own spout.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start the car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Stage five stays off limits.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Kimberworth already?
Brief order, then. First: the engine remains off. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help push the car away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Texaco, the JET or somewhere else. Your own drive in Kimberworth is the place it should stay.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next junction means the place to leave if you're on the M1, under a mile from Kimberworth. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Kimberworth is a smaller job than heading under 5 miles to Sheffield — so say about how far it went.
Our arrival in Kimberworth, and what takes place next
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, whether by St Bede's Catholic Primary School, beside The Salvation Army - Rotherham or at home, the van comes to it. Both the work and the price rest on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. You get that price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. That is why it matters more. After your filter has been flushed — or renewed, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before we head off.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as your motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Kimberworth and where it is
Kimberworth is a suburban area located in South Yorkshire, situated approximately 4.7 miles from Sheffield. Kimberworth sits at an elevation of 118 metres, in a gently sloping landscape characteristic of the region. Kimberworth is predominantly composed of semi-detached housing, with nearby amenities including Richmond Park and other local facilities. Kimberworth is home to a population of around 5548 residents.
AdBlue drains in Kimberworth and across South Yorkshire
Kimberworth is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Jordan and Bradgate among them, across the S postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning S61 2, and the van gets there fastest.
Your car does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Zena, a lay-by on the way to Bradgate Park, a drive. Awkward to pin down, like the back of St Thomas? By a county line? Checking is better than assuming, and so ring.
For Kimberworth people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around South Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.