AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Menzieshill: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Menzieshill. 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.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many modern diesels on the roads around Menzieshill and Gourdie carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of motors share a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, week in, week out. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Menzieshill: how it takes place
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running dry means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Cart Place, perhaps outside The Bay View on the way home that evening.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a strange 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. Whether it happens in Ninewells or the middle of Menzieshill, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Menzieshill or a drive over in Denhead of Gray. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Invergowrie? Ask the person who drove the car last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Dundee City that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Dickson Avenue, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once that tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through its own spout.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel cap remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Leave out stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Menzieshill?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Tesco, Asda or another — the attendants will usually help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. Your own drive around Menzieshill is the place it stays.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M90 — under 15 miles out of Menzieshill — at the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Menzieshill is smaller work than a trip of under 3 miles to Dundee, and so tell us.
When we get there in Menzieshill, what happens?
By the local primary school, close to Menzieshill Community Hub or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. What fluid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those replies set both work and quote. Nobody heads out before you've had the quote by phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Your engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers head off.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Menzieshill
Menzieshill is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Dundee, situated near the coast in eastern Scotland. Menzieshill sits at an elevation of around 95 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Menzieshill is close to nearby places such as Ninewells, Charleston, and Lochee, and is approximately 2.5 miles from the city centre of Dundee. Menzieshill has a population of around 4195 people, predominantly residing in flats.
AdBlue drains across Dundee City, Menzieshill included
Charleston and Lochee are among the places around Menzieshill, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over DD postcodes. A postcode starting DD2 4 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St Ninian's RC Church, a lay-by on the way to Menzieshill Community Garden, a driveway. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Menzieshill Community Library.
In short, for Menzieshill people
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it stands, anywhere around Dundee City.