AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Littlefield: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, when the motor hasn't run, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle sits around Littlefield. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel goes to the engine — but many newer diesels seen around Littlefield and Grimsby hold another liquid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on each filling station call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Littlefield?
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Landeck Avenue, or at Cricketers on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar motor.
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. Yarborough or the heart of Littlefield: it is the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Whether a Littlefield forecourt or a driveway over in Wellow, spend a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with 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 Grimsby Town.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Lincolnshire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Salsbury Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Littlefield?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the car on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump if you're at a forecourt — the JET, the Sainsbury's or anywhere else. Your own drive around Littlefield is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Littlefield sits under 15 miles from the M180; there, take the next exit. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Littlefield makes a smaller job than heading under 25 miles towards Kingston upon Hull — so say roughly how far it went.
When our engineers arrive around Littlefield, what happens?
By Macaulay Primary Academy, near Saltings Allotments Store or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — which liquid, what quantity, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. Nobody sets off before you have heard our quote over the phone.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. Once your filter is flushed — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and then your vehicle is tested. The motor is started next and tested to confirm it runs smoothly, all before we go.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Littlefield and where it is
Littlefield is a suburban area located on the coast of Lincolnshire, with an elevation of approximately 3 metres above sea level. Littlefield sits near the cities of Kingston upon Hull and Grimsby, and is close to nearby places such as Yarborough and West Marsh. Littlefield has a population of around 7940 people, predominantly living in terraced housing. Littlefield is situated about 141.9 miles north of London, making it a relatively distant suburb from the capital city.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Littlefield included
As a residential suburb, Littlefield has the same vans as surrounding places — Grange, West Marsh — all the way across DN postcodes and the wider area beyond. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting DN34 4.
Your car remains put. Draining takes place right there, whether a driveway, a road near Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, or a lay-by on the way to Grimsby Cricket Ground. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Haven Gospel Hall.
For Littlefield people, the short version
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, wherever across Lincolnshire: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.