Midmeredales: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Midmeredales. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many modern diesels around Dunswell, as well as Midmeredales, run on two fluids; your motor gets just your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the slip lives.
Midmeredales: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Blackwater Way, or heading home in the car park at Pennine Rambler.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — since a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Midmeredales or out in Kingswood.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these first, on a forecourt around Midmeredales or a driveway over in Bransholme. A few seconds, no more.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel filler? In that case look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Ask when you pick up a hire car or company car — from Cottingham's car park, say — rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever in East Riding of Yorkshire, follow this routine.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Kesteven Way.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two under one flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel side stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Midmeredales already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Asda, the BP or somewhere else. Your own drive around Midmeredales is the place it stays.
When the motor has run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. Midmeredales sits under 15 miles from the M62; on it, take the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Midmeredales.
When our technicians get there around Midmeredales, what takes place?
Outside Broadacre Primary School, near Marks & Spencer or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and if it has run — so we ask. You get that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire 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 the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Midmeredales and where it is
Midmeredales is a suburban area located inland in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with an elevation of approximately 3 metres above sea level. Midmeredales sits near the city of Kingston upon Hull, being only 3.9 miles away, and is close to other nearby places such as Kingswood and Wawne. Midmeredales is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, which reflects the area's residential nature. Midmeredales has a population of around 7894 people, according to approximate estimates.
AdBlue drains around Midmeredales and across East Riding of Yorkshire
Grey Legs and Wawne are among the towns near Midmeredales, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over HU postcodes. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting HU7 3.
The car doesn't need to move. Wherever it stands — near TK Maxx, on a lay-by en route to Chalky Path, at home — that is where it is cleared. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Bodmin Road Church? Close to a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so ring.
For Midmeredales people, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout East Riding of Yorkshire.