Mossneuk: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Keep your engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where the vehicle sits around Mossneuk, is usually all it needs if found before your engine runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the why it happens and the how to prevent it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many newer diesels around Jackton, as well as Mossneuk, carry on two liquids; the engine takes only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
There's a filler for every tank. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side under one flap. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt visit, again and again. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which cap it needs. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur around Mossneuk?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a drive off Millburn Way before work, or in the car park at Gardenhall Inn on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle.
Third, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as easily, and once the pour starts, nothing stops it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Mossneuk or out in Hairmyres.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Peel Park or a forecourt around Mossneuk, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- On many cars, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook says which it lives if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver knows. Check when you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Hairmyres's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around South Lanarkshire that is.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Borthwick Drive.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Mossneuk already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
The staff at BP, Morrisons or any forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing your car clear when asked. If you are on your own driveway in Mossneuk, leave it where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M77, under 5 miles from Mossneuk, that means the next exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Mossneuk is a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Glasgow — so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Mossneuk, and what takes place next
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, be it outside the local primary school, near Church of Mossneuk or on your own drive, the van travels to it. What fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask because the answers set the work and quote. You get that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that washes away unaided, however long it is left. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. Before leaving, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it is running smoothly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Mossneuk, briefly
Mossneuk is a suburban area situated on the riverside in South Lanarkshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Mossneuk sits at an elevation of 175 metres, close to the nearby communities of Hairmyres and Newlandsmuir. Mossneuk is located near the city of Glasgow, which is approximately 7.7 miles away, and is part of the wider Glasgow urban area. Mossneuk has a population of around 3918 residents, living in a predominantly semi-detached housing stock.
AdBlue drains in Mossneuk and across South Lanarkshire
As a residential suburb, Mossneuk has the same vans as surrounding places — Newlandsmuir, Westwood — right through G postcodes and the surrounding area around them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting G75 8.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Pharos, a lay-by on the way to Hairmyres / Mossneuk Park, a driveway. Awkward to pin down, like the back of St. Columba Lutheran Church? Close to a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
The short version for Mossneuk motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout South Lanarkshire.