Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lisbellaw: Why It Occurs
Leave your engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, when your engine has not turned, it is drained and fully cleaned where your car sits around Lisbellaw. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the reasons it occurs and the how to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel goes to your engine — yet many modern diesels driven about Lisbellaw and Bellanaleck hold another liquid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Lisbellaw: how it happens
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from your car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Wallace Cottages, perhaps outside the pub in the village on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: a strange vehicle.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Lisbellaw or out in Tamlaght.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Lisbellaw forecourt or a drive over in Enniskillen, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many cars carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Wherever across County Fermanagh the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush beside B842 on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then check again — confirm your diesel filler stayed shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Lisbellaw?
Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs the pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help push the car away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. If you're on your own driveway around Lisbellaw, leave it where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. The next exit means the place to leave when you are on the M77, over 50 miles from Lisbellaw. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Armagh, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Lisbellaw.
What takes place when our technicians turn up around Lisbellaw
Outside the local primary school, near the centre or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and our price rest on three answers — which fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. During the phone call itself, you hear the price — before anything else.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. 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. Filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a test of the car. Your engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, provided the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Lisbellaw
Lisbellaw is a small locality in County Fermanagh, situated inland at an elevation of 74 metres. Lisbellaw lies near several nearby settlements, including Tamlaght, Carrybridge, and Maguiresbridge, and is approximately 35.6 miles from the city of Armagh. Lisbellaw is characterised by predominantly detached housing and a population of around 940 residents. Lisbellaw is located in a rural area, some 364.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains about Lisbellaw, and County Fermanagh beyond
Lisbellaw is a small village, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Carrybridge and Maguiresbridge among them, across the BT postcode area. Quickest of all: give a BT94 5 postcode for our van.
The car stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a side street close to a street just off the centre: we drain it where it is. Tricky to explain, like the back of the far end of the built-up part? By a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
The short version for Lisbellaw people
Always, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere in County Fermanagh.