AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lumphinnans: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the motor hasn't run, it's emptied and thoroughly rinsed where the car is in Lumphinnans. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the reasons it happens and the ways to avoid it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many modern diesels in Hill of Beath, as well as Lumphinnans, run on two fluids; your motor takes just the diesel. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
Lumphinnans: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Main Street, or on the way home in the car park outside Wee Jimmies.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once started, keeps on. Whether it happens in Cowdenbeath or the middle of Lumphinnans, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Lumphinnans forecourt or a drive out in Glencraig, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Cowdenbeath.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever across Fife the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Sycamore Crescent.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Do not go on to stage five.
Lumphinnans: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Keep the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Gulf, the BP or somewhere else. If you are on your own drive around Lumphinnans, leave the car where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. Lumphinnans sits under 3 miles from the M90; there, take the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Lumphinnans is smaller a job than a trip of under 10 miles towards Dunfermline, and so tell us.
Our arrival in Lumphinnans, and what takes place next
By the local primary school, near Beath and Cowdenbeath North Church or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. What liquid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because those replies decide both work and price. Nobody heads out before you've heard our quote over the phone.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away unaided. That is why it counts more. Testing comes at the end: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
If the motor has not 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 after dark. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Lumphinnans and where it is
Lumphinnans is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Fife, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a relatively small population of around 1388 residents. Lumphinnans sits at an elevation of 137 metres, close to the nearby towns of Cowdenbeath, Lochgelly, and Kelty. Lumphinnans is located near Dunfermline, which is approximately 5.9 miles away, and is part of the wider Fife region. Lumphinnans is also relatively distant from major cities like London, being around 344.4 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Fife, Lumphinnans included
Lochgelly and Kelty are among the towns near Lumphinnans, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout KY postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a KY4 9 postcode for the van.
Moving your car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Lumphinnans Sports Hub, a side street close to Lumphinnans War Memorial: our engineers drain the car where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Lumphinnans Henge? By a county line? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
For Lumphinnans motorists, the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere across Fife.