New Rossington: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Pause reading for a moment when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done right where the vehicle sits around New Rossington, is normally all it takes if caught before your motor runs. Reading before the event? In that case what follows explains why it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many newer diesels in Loversall, as well as New Rossington, carry on two liquids; the motor gets just your diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side behind one flap. Diesel goes in on every forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what cap to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in New Rossington: how it happens
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off Grange Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Welfare and Social Club heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. It's seconds, be it out in Rossington or bang in the centre of New Rossington.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a New Rossington forecourt or a drive out in Hayfield Green, take a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs 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.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Doncaster.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around South Yorkshire that is.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Grange Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read it.
- The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side is still shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around New Rossington already?
Short order, then. Top of that: the motor stays off. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the Asda, the Esso or somewhere else. At home around New Rossington? Then your car remains where it is.
Where the engine has run already, pull over somewhere safe then turn the car off. On the M18, under a mile from New Rossington, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across New Rossington is smaller work than a run of under 5 miles towards Doncaster, and so tell us.
When our technicians arrive around New Rossington, what happens?
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Grange Lane Infant Academy, near St Luke or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run, because the replies determine this work and the quote. No one heads out until you have had the price over the phone.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. Hence it counts more. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Your engine is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs smoothly, all before our technicians head off.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run need about half an hour after we arrive. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About New Rossington and where it is
New Rossington is a village in South Yorkshire, situated near the town of Doncaster and close to the villages of Rossington and Littleworth. New Rossington has a relatively low elevation of 16 metres above sea level and is characterized by predominantly terraced housing. New Rossington is located inland, approximately 141.7 miles north of London, and is part of the larger Yorkshire and the Humber region. New Rossington is a residential area with nearby amenities and transport links to Doncaster and other local towns.
AdBlue drains in New Rossington and across South Yorkshire
Over DN postcodes, our teams that cover New Rossington — a rural village — work the surrounding spots too, Bessacarr and Littleworth among them. A postcode starting DN11 0 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle does not need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Holmescarr Community Enterprise Centre, a lay-by on the way to Holmes Carr Great Wood, a drive. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Rossington Memorial Hall, on a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for New Rossington motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in South Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.