AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Ollerton: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, leave your ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your car stands in New Ollerton, is usually what it takes when found before your motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many current diesels on the roads about New Ollerton and Kirton carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Other cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two side by side behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
New Ollerton: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Forest Road, or on the way home in the car park at The Plough.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — yet a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a strange car.
No part halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Boughton or the middle of New Ollerton, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Rufford or a forecourt around New Ollerton.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many cars show what goes in each filler just there.
- Cannot find it next to the diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Retford.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Nottinghamshire that is.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not rushed by Briar Road at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in New Ollerton?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at Tesco, Esso or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car away when asked. Your own drive in New Ollerton is the place it should stay.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. New Ollerton sits under 15 miles from the Doncaster By-Pass; on it, use the next junction. Mileage matters — a quick hop across New Ollerton is a smaller job than heading under 25 miles to Nottingham — so say about how far it went.
Our arrival in New Ollerton, and what happens next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside The Parkgate Academy, near St Joseph's Catholic Church or on your own driveway. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. You get that quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then that tank is cleared and the system rinsed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of your car. Next we fire it up and confirm it runs correctly before leaving.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About New Ollerton, briefly
New Ollerton is a village in Nottinghamshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 56 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type. New Ollerton lies near the villages of Boughton, Ollerton, and Wellow, and is approximately 18 miles from Nottingham. New Ollerton has a population of around 2812 residents, and its location near the River Maun makes it a notable settlement in the area. New Ollerton is also relatively close to major cities, being around 123 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Nottinghamshire, New Ollerton included
As a village, New Ollerton shares its vans surrounding places — Ollerton, Wellow — all the way through NG postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting NG22 9 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays where it is. We drain it where it is — a side street near Ollerton Market, a lay-by on the way to The Lane, a driveway. Awkward to explain, like the back of Ollerton Town Hall? Close to a county line? Checking beats guessing, so ring.
New Ollerton drivers: the short version
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Nottinghamshire.