Low Utley: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where your vehicle sits around Low Utley, is normally all it needs if caught before the engine runs. The remainder of this page explains why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Low Utley and Black Hill run, with diesel for the motor. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both side by side behind one flap. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Low Utley: how it takes place
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Green Head Lane before work, or in the car park at The Roebuck on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
No part halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in High Utley or the middle of Low Utley, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Showfield or a forecourt around Low Utley, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of cars show what goes in each filler right there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Keighley? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever it is around West Yorkshire — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Skipton Road, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, confirm it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel cap stayed closed throughout. Only then, start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Low Utley?
Do not start the motor: that's how the short order of things begins. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of your tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
The staff at Shell, Texaco or another forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle clear if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Low Utley.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M606, under 15 miles from Low Utley, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Bradford, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Low Utley.
Our arrival in Low Utley, and what occurs next
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Victoria Primary School, near AlHikmah Project Keighley or on your own drive. We ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the replies decide the work and our quote. Nobody sets off before you've heard our quote over the phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. That is why it counts more. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Low Utley and where it is
Low Utley is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with a mix of detached housing and a population of around 2533 residents. Low Utley sits at an elevation of 110 metres, approximately 9.2 miles from Bradford, and is located near other local places such as High Utley and Utley. Low Utley forms part of the wider residential area along the river, with Beechcliffe also nearby. Low Utley is some 180.4 miles north of London, reflecting its position in the northern part of England.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Low Utley included
Low Utley is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Utley and Beechcliffe among them, across the BD postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning BD20 6, and the van gets there quickest.
The car does not need to move. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street near St Mark's Church, Utley, or a lay-by on the way to Moorhouse Wood. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Utley Cemetery Chapel? By a border? Asking is better than guessing, and so ring.
In short, for Low Utley people
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.