Kinsley: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause reading a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. In Kinsley, catching it before your engine runs usually leaves draining and a thorough flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it happens and the how to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many newer diesels on the roads round Kinsley and Hemsworth carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side behind one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Kinsley: how it takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Redland Crescent, perhaps outside Kinsley Royal British Legion Club on the way home after work.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, carries on. It's seconds, be it out in Fitzwilliam or right in the heart of Kinsley.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Kinsley or a driveway out in Green Hill. Seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- The handbook shows which it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the 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 Fitzwilliam.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across West Yorkshire that is.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Wakefield Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Step five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Kinsley already?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the engine stays off. Keep the ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone starts the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. If you're on your own driveway in Kinsley, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Already run? Stop when it's safe, then switch off. The next exit is where to come off when you are on the M62, under 10 miles from Kinsley. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Wakefield, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Kinsley.
Our arrival around Kinsley, and what happens next
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, whether by King's Meadow Academy, beside Kinsley Greyhound Stadium or at home, the van travels to it. The answers decide the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run. On the phone call itself, you are told the quote — before dispatch.
Then the tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. We don't go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Kinsley and where it is
Kinsley is a village in West Yorkshire, situated approximately 6.6 miles from Wakefield and 155.4 miles from London, with a population of around 1969 people. Kinsley sits inland at an elevation of 47 metres, surrounded by nearby places such as Fitzwilliam, West End, and Cross Hill. Kinsley has a predominance of semi-detached housing, reflecting its development as a residential community. Kinsley remains a small village with a local character shaped by its rural setting and proximity to Wakefield.
Kinsley and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
West End and Cross Hill are among the towns near Kinsley, a rural village, that the same teams cover, over WF postcodes. Fastest of all: quote a WF9 5 postcode to the van.
No need to shift your car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Vale Head Park, a side street close to Fitzwilliam And Kinsley Community Centre: our technicians drain it where it stands. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Kinsley Church Of The Resurrection, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Kinsley people: the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere across West Yorkshire.