AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Nether Green: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Around Nether Green, catching it before your motor runs usually means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Here in advance? Then what follows explains why it comes about and how to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many newer diesels on the roads about Nether Green and Stumperlowe carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
Nether Green: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Tom Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Rising Sun on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars are next, as well. Rentals, new cars and company motors put their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it in Hanging Water or right in the centre of Nether Green.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Carsick Hill or a forecourt in Nether Green.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Sheffield.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere across South Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Nethergreen Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Step five stays off limits.
Nether Green: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Don't start your engine: that is how the short order of things starts. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at Esso, JET or any forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing your car clear when asked. Your own drive in Nether Green is where it stays.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the Tinsley Viaduct — under 10 miles out of Nether Green — at the first junction. A short hop across Nether Green is a smaller job than a run towards Sheffield, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Nether Green, what happens?
By Nether Green Junior School, close to Nether Green Methodist Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, because those replies settle the work and our quote. The quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. Once your filter is flushed — or replaced, where required — clean diesel is added, and then the car gets tested. Before we go, our engineers start the engine and make sure that it's running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Nether Green and where it is
Nether Green is a suburban area located on the riverside in South Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of 163 metres and approximately 2.7 miles from Sheffield. Nether Green is characterized by its predominant flat housing and is situated near other local places such as Hanging Water, Ranmoor, and Greystones Cliffe. Nether Green has a population of around 4309 residents and is part of the larger Sheffield urban area.
AdBlue drains about Nether Green, and South Yorkshire beyond
Throughout S postcodes, the teams that cover Nether Green — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Greystones Cliffe and Ranmoor included. Quote a postcode that starts S10 3, and the van arrives fastest.
No need to shift your car. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Shepherd Wheel, a lay-by on the way to Carr Bank Wood, a drive. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Ibbotson Wheel Marker Post, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for Nether Green people
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout South Yorkshire.