Nafferton: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause here a minute when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the engine has not turned, it's emptied and fully cleaned where the car sits around Nafferton. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many current diesels on the roads around Nafferton and Driffield carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Nafferton?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Coppergate before work, or in the car park at The Blue Bell on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars come next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, carries on. It's seconds, whether out in Wansford or bang in the centre of Nafferton.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Skerne or a forecourt in Nafferton.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark which belongs in which inlet just there.
- The handbook says which it is when your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you collect a rental or company car — at the nearest station's car park, perhaps — not once the light appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever it is in East Riding of Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Priestgate.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've found the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — making sure your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Skip step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Nafferton?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Leave your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the PMH or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Nafferton.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the Petuaria Way — under 25 miles out of Nafferton — at the first exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Nafferton is a smaller job than heading under 25 miles towards Kingston upon Hull — so tell us about how far it went.
Nafferton: what happens when our technicians arrive
Anywhere the car came to rest, be it by Nafferton Primary School, beside All Saints' or at home, our van travels to it. Which liquid got in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask because those replies set the work and price. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and then the car is tested. Before leaving, we start it and check that it is running smoothly.
Unrun cars usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Nafferton and where it is
Nafferton is a village situated on the banks of the River Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with a low elevation of around 15 metres above sea level. Nafferton lies approximately 18.9 miles west of Kingston upon Hull and is surrounded by nearby villages such as Wansford and Lowthorpe. Nafferton has a population of around 1701 residents, who mostly live in semi-detached housing. Nafferton is located in a rural area, with easy access to the nearby city of Kingston upon Hull.
Nafferton and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over YO postcodes, the vans covering Nafferton — a village — work the surrounding spots too, Lowthorpe and Ruston Parva among them. Quote a postcode beginning YO25 4, and our van gets there fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Nafferton Sports and Recreation Club, a side street near Nafferton Village Hall: our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Nafferton Methodist Church, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Nafferton motorists: the short version
Tip nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across East Riding of Yorkshire.