Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Maltby: Why It Happens
Keep the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Maltby. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Not one fluid but two: that is how many newer diesels around Maltby and Hellaby carry, with diesel for the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two together behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
Maltby: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Manor Road, or at Don John on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a new motor.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Little Hay Nooking or the middle of Maltby: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Maltby forecourt or a driveway over in Carr, spend a couple of seconds over these before any is poured in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- On plenty of cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Conisbrough, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across South Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside Cross Street at the roadside.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, and check again — making sure your diesel cap remained shut throughout. Only then, start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays out.
Maltby: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Leave your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it by itself starts the pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
At a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, Shell or any other — the attendants will usually help roll your car away, when you ask. On your own drive around Maltby? Then your car stays put.
Already run? Pull over when it is safe, then switch off. The next junction means where to leave if you're on the M18, under 3 miles from Maltby. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Doncaster, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Maltby.
Maltby: what takes place when our technicians arrive
By Maltby Manor Academy, close to The Wesley Centre or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — what fluid, what amount, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. On the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Then your tank is emptied and the system cleaned thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or changed as needed. The motor is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians go.
Unstarted cars usually need a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Maltby
Maltby is a town in South Yorkshire, situated on the banks of the River Torne at an elevation of around 105 metres. Maltby lies approximately 7.5 miles from Doncaster and 139.9 miles from London, with nearby places including Little Hay Nooking, Hooton Levitt, and Braithwell. Maltby has a population of around 14749 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing.
AdBlue drains about Maltby, and South Yorkshire beyond
Over S postcodes, the teams covering Maltby — a riverside town — work the surrounding places too, Braithwell and Hooton Levitt included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting S66 8.
The car stays put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Coronation Park, a side street close to Full Life Church: we drain the vehicle where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Maltby Customer Service Centre? Close to a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
For Maltby drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout South Yorkshire.