Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Nab Hill: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the motor hasn't run, it is emptied and fully flushed where your vehicle is around Nab Hill. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels near Nab Hill and Cockley Hill carry, with diesel for your motor. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh it, from its own tank.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place both together under one flap. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the error happens.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Nab Hill: how it occurs
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Sunny Hill Avenue before work, or in the car park at Spangled Bull on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you vehicles come second, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. It's seconds, be it out in Upper Heaton or right in the heart of Nab Hill.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Deighton or a forecourt in Nab Hill, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- On plenty of cars, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in which inlet right there.
- Can't see it beside your diesel filler? In that case look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Deighton, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around West Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Bar Croft.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Nab Hill?
Don't start your motor: that is where the short order of things begins. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Esso or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Nab Hill.
Where your engine has been run already, stop safely then switch the car off. On the M62, under 3 miles from Nab Hill, that means the next junction. A short hop across Nab Hill is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 10 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians get there around Nab Hill, what takes place?
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, whether by Kirkheaton Primary School, near The United Church Kirkheaton or at home, our van comes to it. What liquid went in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask because those replies set the work and price. On the call itself, you hear the price — before dispatch.
Next: draining, then a full 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. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Before we go, our technicians start it and confirm that it's running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once we get there, provided your engine has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Nab Hill and where it is
Nab Hill is a locality situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with an elevation of 148 metres. Nab Hill lies approximately 8.9 miles from Bradford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Upper Heaton, Kirkheaton, and Dalton. Nab Hill has a population of around 892 residents, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Nab Hill is located about 163.5 miles from London, in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Nab Hill and West Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over HD postcodes, the teams covering Nab Hill — a small village — work the nearby spots too, Dalton and Kirkheaton among them. A postcode starting HD5 0 gets our van to you fastest.
There's no need to move the vehicle. We drain it where it is — a side street near Kirkheaton Parish Centre, a lay-by on the way to Dalton Bank LNR, a drive. Assuming won't help behind St John, Kirkheaton Church, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
Nab Hill motorists: the short version
Tip no AdBlue till you have read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it stands, wherever in West Yorkshire: switch it off and phone 0333 366 0103.