Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lambley: Why It Occurs
Keep your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, carried out just where the car stands around Lambley, is usually what it takes if caught before your engine runs. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains how it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of current diesels on the roads round Lambley and Bulcote carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, week in, week out. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
Lambley: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
On a drive off Mill Lane before work, or in the car park at The Robin Hood and Little John on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Burton Joyce or the middle of Lambley, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Lambley forecourt or a driveway out in Porchester, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is if the 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 — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Burton Joyce.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
For the day the light appears — wherever it is in Nottinghamshire — a routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed by Main Street at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- Both under one flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel side is still shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Don't carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Lambley already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
The staff at UK Petroleum, Esso or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car away if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Lambley.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M1 — under 10 miles out of Lambley — at the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Nottingham, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Lambley.
When we arrive in Lambley, what happens?
Wherever your car came to rest, be it outside Lambley Primary School, near Lambley Village Hall or on your own drive, the van comes to it. The answers determine the work and the quote, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run. On the call itself, you are told the price — before anything else.
Then your tank is emptied and the system cleaned thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we arrive, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Lambley, for a moment
Lambley is a small village in Nottinghamshire, situated on the banks of the River Trent at an elevation of around 57 metres. Lambley lies close to the city of Nottingham, approximately 4.8 miles to the northwest, and is surrounded by other nearby villages such as Burton Joyce and Woodborough. Lambley has a population of around 609 people and is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Lambley is located in the East Midlands region, about 110.5 miles north of London.
Lambley and Nottinghamshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Lambley is a village, and the teams that cover it also work the places around it, Woodborough and Gedling among them, across the NG postcode area. Give a postcode beginning NG4 4, and the van gets there quickest.
The vehicle stays put. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Lambley Reed Pond LNR, a side street near Holy Trinity Church: we drain it where it is. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of North Viewing Platform.
In short, for Lambley drivers
Read the cap before you tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it stands, wherever across Nottinghamshire: switch the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.