Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kirton in Lindsey: Why It Happens
Keep your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle sits around Kirton in Lindsey, is usually what it needs if caught before the motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Kirton in Lindsey and Blyborough carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
There is a filler for every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Kirton in Lindsey
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and running dry means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Queen Street, or outside the pub in the village on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar vehicles are next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after started, carries on. Whether it happens in Grayingham or the middle of Kirton in Lindsey, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Northorpe or a forecourt around Kirton in Lindsey, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Kirton Lindsey.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere around Lincolnshire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wesley Street, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- The two behind one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Kirton in Lindsey?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — JET, another forecourt nearby or another — the staff will normally help push the car away, if you ask. If you are on your own driveway in Kirton in Lindsey, leave the vehicle where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. The next junction is where to leave if you're on the M180, under 5 miles from Kirton in Lindsey. Distance matters — a short hop across Kirton in Lindsey is a smaller job than driving under 25 miles towards Lincoln — so say roughly how far it went.
Kirton in Lindsey: what takes place when our engineers get there
Wherever your car came to rest, whether by Kirton Lindsey Primary Academy, beside United Mission Church of St Andrew or at home, our van travels to it. Which liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since those replies set the work and price. The price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the car. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
If your motor hasn't run, most 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 at night. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Kirton in Lindsey and where it is
Kirton in Lindsey is a town in north Lincolnshire, situated in a rural area at an elevation of around 54 metres. Kirton in Lindsey lies approximately 16.8 miles north of Lincoln and 137.4 miles north of London, with nearby villages including Grayingham, Redbourne, and Manton. Kirton in Lindsey has a population of around 3316 people, predominantly living in detached housing. Kirton in Lindsey is characterised by its inland setting, with the town's landscape reflecting the wider Lincolnshire countryside.
AdBlue drains in Kirton in Lindsey and across Lincolnshire
Being a town, Kirton in Lindsey has the same vans as surrounding areas — Redbourne, Manton — all the way across DN postcodes and the wider area beyond. A postcode starting DN21 4 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains put. Wherever it sits — near Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, on a layby en route to Jessica Wood, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. Guessing won't help behind St Radegund, on a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for Kirton in Lindsey motorists
Tip no AdBlue until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere around Lincolnshire.