Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Loscoe: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. In Loscoe, finding it before the engine turns normally means draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that's what many newer diesels near Loscoe and Codnor Breach carry, with diesel for the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what filler it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen around Loscoe?
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off The Nook before work, or in the car park at The Eclipse on the way home.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new motor 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.
No part halts the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Cross Hill or the middle of Loscoe: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Loscoe or a driveway out in Heanor Gate. Seconds, that's all.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check when you pick up a hire car or company car — from Langley Mill's car park, perhaps — not when the warning appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere around Derbyshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Loscoe Denby Lane.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Loscoe?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
The staff at Texaco, Tesco or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push your car away when asked. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Loscoe.
Where your motor has been run already, pull over somewhere safe and turn it off. Loscoe lies under 5 miles from the M1; on it, take the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Derby, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Loscoe.
When our engineers arrive in Loscoe, what happens?
Wherever your car has stopped, whether by Loscoe CofE Primary School and Nursery, beside Loscoe Baptist Church or on your own drive, our van travels to it. The answers decide this work and the price, so we ask what went in, about how much, and whether it's run. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after the tank is cleared. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. After that our engineers start it and make sure it runs correctly before leaving.
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. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Loscoe itself
Loscoe is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated near the River Derwent and close to the city of Derby. Loscoe has a mix of semi-detached housing and is located near other local places such as Cross Hill and Denby Common. Loscoe sits at an elevation of 97 metres, within the East Midlands region of England. Loscoe is approximately 8.3 miles from Derby and 117.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Loscoe and across Derbyshire
As a residential suburb, Loscoe has the same vans as surrounding areas — Denby Common, Woodlinkin — right across DE postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quickest of all: quote a DE75 7 postcode to our van.
Shifting the car is not needed. Wherever it stands — beside The Loscoe Evergreen Centre, on a layby en route to Charles Hill Recreation Ground, at home — that is where it gets cleared. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Luke's, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Loscoe motorists
Always, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Derbyshire.