Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Marjoriebanks
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your motor has not turned, it is emptied and fully purged where your car sits in Marjoriebanks. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it happens and the ways to prevent it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near Marjoriebanks and Applegarthtown run, with diesel feeding your engine. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh them, from its own tank.
There's a filler for each tank. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think which cap to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Marjoriebanks?
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Marjoriebanks before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar car.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and after the tip begins, nothing stops it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Marjoriebanks or out in Lochmaben.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Marjoriebanks forecourt or a driveway out in Templand, take a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- On many vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of vehicles show what goes in each inlet just there.
- The handbook says which it lives when 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 Lockerbie.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Dumfries and Galloway that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and not rushed by Merton Court at the roadside.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to stage five.
Marjoriebanks: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief list, then. Top of that: the engine stays unstarted. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the another forecourt nearby or anywhere else. If you are on your own driveway around Marjoriebanks, leave the vehicle where it is.
Already started? Stop once it is safe, then switch off. On the A74(M), under 3 miles from Marjoriebanks, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Carlisle, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Marjoriebanks.
Our arrival around Marjoriebanks, and what takes place next
Outside the local primary school, near Lochmaben Library or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what quantity, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. You hear that price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
The system is then rinsed thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. Once the fuel filter has been flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then your car is tested. Then our technicians start the car and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Marjoriebanks
Marjoriebanks is a suburban area in Dumfries and Galloway, situated inland at an elevation of 57 metres. Marjoriebanks lies near the towns of Lochmaben and Watchhill, and is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing. Marjoriebanks is located approximately 26 miles from Carlisle, and is part of a wider network of communities in southern Scotland. Marjoriebanks has a population of around 1271 residents.
AdBlue drains across Dumfries and Galloway, Marjoriebanks included
Throughout DG postcodes, our teams that cover Marjoriebanks — a residential suburb — work the nearby locations too, Halleaths and Watchhill included. A postcode starting DG11 1 gets the van to you fastest.
Shifting the car isn't needed. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Robert Bruce Statue, a lay-by on the way to Whitehills Park, a drive. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Mercat Cross, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Marjoriebanks drivers
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Dumfries and Galloway.