Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Meikleriggs: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Meikleriggs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels around Meikleriggs and Castlehead carry, with diesel feeding your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, again and again. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Meikleriggs
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Lounsdale Drive, perhaps outside Lord Lounsdale on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — but a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar car.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, carries on. Whether it happens in Lounsdale or the middle of Meikleriggs, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Carriagehill or a forecourt around Meikleriggs, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Look for it.
- Cannot see it next to your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you collect a hire car or company car — from Paisley Canal's car park, say — rather than once the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the light appears — wherever you are across Renfrewshire — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Lounsdale Grove, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It seems silly. It works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never came off.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five is out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Meikleriggs?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Leave the ignition off too, because on many diesels it by itself runs your pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Paisley Mill Service Station or the JET, ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive around Meikleriggs, leave the car where it sits.
Already run? Pull over when it's sensible, then turn off. Leave the M8 — under 3 miles out of Meikleriggs — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Glasgow, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Meikleriggs.
When our technicians get there in Meikleriggs, what occurs?
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, near Meikleriggs Bowling Club or on your own drive. Those replies determine the work and the price, and so our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Next our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs smoothly before we leave.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Meikleriggs, for a moment
Meikleriggs is a suburban area located on the riverside in Renfrewshire, with a relatively low elevation of 25 metres. Meikleriggs sits near the cities of Glasgow and the surrounding neighbourhoods of Lounsdale, Stanely, and Brediland. Meikleriggs has a population of approximately 5985 people, predominantly residing in flat-type housing. Meikleriggs is situated close to Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, which is about 8 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Meikleriggs and across Renfrewshire
Stanely and Brediland are among the towns near Meikleriggs, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout PA postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning PA2 9, and the van gets there fastest.
Your car does not need to move. Wherever it stands — beside St Mary's, on a lay-by heading to Ferguslie Cricket Club, at home — that's where it is drained. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Maxwellton Cross Memorial.
The short version for Meikleriggs motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Renfrewshire.