AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Farm Loch: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Keep the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in New Farm Loch. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers how it comes about and how to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your engine — but plenty of modern diesels driven round New Farm Loch and Onthank carry a second fluid as well. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler on each tank. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. It is in that gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around New Farm Loch
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Cameron Place, or on the way home in the car park outside The Charleston.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Beansburn or right in the centre of New Farm Loch.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Knockinlaw or a forecourt in New Farm Loch.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Kilmarnock, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Wherever around East Ayrshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Cameron Drive, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Skip step five entirely.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around New Farm Loch already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Keep the ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs the pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the BP, the Morrisons or somewhere else. Your own drive around New Farm Loch is the place it should stay.
When your engine has run by now, pull over somewhere safe and switch the car off. New Farm Loch sits under 3 miles from the M77; on it, take the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across New Farm Loch makes a smaller job than heading under 25 miles to Glasgow — so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians arrive in New Farm Loch, what occurs?
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, near St Kentigern's or on your own driveway. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — which liquid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. You hear that price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Once the fuel filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally your vehicle gets tested. Before leaving, our technicians start the engine and confirm that it is running smoothly.
If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About New Farm Loch itself
New Farm Loch is a suburban area situated on the shores of a loch in East Ayrshire, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. New Farm Loch sits at an elevation of 56 metres, looking out over the water and surrounding countryside. New Farm Loch is located near several other small communities, including Beansburn, Longpark, and Hillhead, and is within commuting distance of Glasgow, which is 19 miles away.
AdBlue drains across East Ayrshire, New Farm Loch included
Throughout KA postcodes, our vans that cover New Farm Loch — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Hillhead and Longpark among them. Give a postcode that starts KA3 7, and our van gets there quickest.
The car doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near New Farm Loch Cimmunity Centre, a lay-by on the way to South Dean Plantation, a driveway. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Dean Castle.
In short, for New Farm Loch people
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it stands, anywhere across East Ayrshire: switch it off and call 0333 366 0103.