AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lochore: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Pause reading a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. In Lochore, catching it before the engine runs normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — handy if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many current diesels on the roads about Lochore and Loch Leven Lodges East carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the fumes.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. The slip lives in that gap.
Lochore: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Lochleven Road, or heading home in the car park outside the pub in the village.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar car.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. Ballingry or the middle of Lochore: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Lochore forecourt or a drive out in Loch Leven Lodges, spend a few seconds on these before any goes in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel inlet? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Lochgelly? Check with whoever drove it last before leaving, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Fife the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Loanhead Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two behind a single flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel side stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never came off.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Skip step five entirely.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Lochore already?
Don't start your engine: that is where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Thames, the Gulf or anywhere else. If you're on your own driveway around Lochore, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. Come off the M90 — under 3 miles out of Lochore — at the next exit. Distance counts — a short hop across Lochore is a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Dunfermline — so say about how far it went.
What takes place when our engineers turn up in Lochore
Outside the local primary school, close to Benarty District War Memorial or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Those replies decide the work and our quote, and so we ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Draining the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out by itself. Hence it counts more. Once your filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel is added, and then the car is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run need roughly half an hour after we are there. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Lochore, briefly
Lochore is a small village in Fife, situated inland at an elevation of 116 metres, approximately 8 miles from Dunfermline. Lochore lies near several other communities, including Ballingry, Crosshill, and Glencraig, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Lochore is a relatively small settlement, with a population of around 2023 people, and is located about 346 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across Fife, Lochore included
Being a rural village, Lochore has the same vans as nearby areas — Crosshill, Glencraig — right through KY postcodes and the wider area around them. Give a postcode that starts KY5 8, and the van gets there quickest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. Anywhere it sits — near Benarty Libary, on a layby heading to Lochore Park, on a drive — that's where it is drained. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Benarty Centre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Lochore drivers
Tip no AdBlue until you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep it off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Fife.