New Popplewell: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Pause reading a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where the vehicle sits around New Popplewell, is normally what it needs when found before your engine runs. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to your motor — but many newer diesels driven round New Popplewell and Wyke Common carry another fluid too. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place both side by side behind one flap. The diesel side is filled at the pump 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 frequently. The mistake lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in New Popplewell
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Foldings Road, or heading home in the car park outside Walkers Arms.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a new motor.
Nothing stops the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of New Popplewell or out in Scholes.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt in New Popplewell or a drive out in Wyke. A few seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- On many cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark which goes in each filler right there.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your 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 Low Moor, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around West Yorkshire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Foldings Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The two behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side is still shut before raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel filler remained closed the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
New Popplewell: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Esso, the Shell or anywhere else. At home in New Popplewell? So your car remains put.
Where your motor has been run already, stop safely then turn the vehicle off. Leave the M62 — under a mile out of New Popplewell — at the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across New Popplewell is smaller work than a run of under 5 miles to Bradford, and so say.
When we turn up in New Popplewell, what takes place?
By Scholes Village Primary School, close to St. James and St. Phillip Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — what liquid, what amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. No one heads out before you've heard the price by phone.
Then that tank is emptied and your system flushed 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 doesn't wash out on its own. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or changed as needed. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run take about half an hour after our engineers are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About New Popplewell
New Popplewell is a suburban area situated near the River Calder in West Yorkshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. New Popplewell sits at an elevation of around 165 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and the nearby cities of Bradford and Leeds. New Popplewell is located close to several nearby places, including Scholes, Hartshead Moor Top, and Lower Wyke, and is about 4.3 miles from Bradford city centre.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, New Popplewell included
Throughout BD postcodes, our vans covering New Popplewell — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Lower Wyke and Hartshead Moor Top among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BD19 6.
The car stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to St James and St Phillip Gardens, a side street near Whitechapel Church: our engineers drain it where it sits. Awkward to pin down, like the back of St Mary the Virgin? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, so ring.
For New Popplewell people, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.