AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Scarbro: How It Happens and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where your car stands in New Scarbro, is usually what it takes when caught before the engine runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many current diesels on the roads about New Scarbro and Gamble Hill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each filling station visit, again and again. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
New Scarbro: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Railsfield Way before work, or in the car park at The Daisy on the way home.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
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. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of New Scarbro or out in Bramley.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these first, on a forecourt in New Scarbro or a drive out in Park Spring. Seconds, no more.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark which belongs in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the 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 outside Bramley (West Yorkshire).
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across West Yorkshire that is.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, engine off, and never rushed beside Elder Road on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. 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.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Skip stage five entirely.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around New Scarbro?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things starts. Leave the ignition off as well, since on many diesels switching it on alone starts the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the BP, the Morrisons or anywhere else. Your own driveway in New Scarbro is the place it should stay.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. New Scarbro lies under 3 miles from the Inner Ring Road; there, use the first exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across New Scarbro is a smaller job than driving under 5 miles to Leeds — so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians arrive in New Scarbro
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Bramley St Peter's Church of England Primary School, close to Bramley Lawn Day Centre or on your own drive. We ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, because those replies settle this work and the price. You hear that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then the tank is drained and the system cleaned thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About New Scarbro and where it is
New Scarbro is a locality in West Yorkshire, situated inland near the city of Leeds, with New Scarbro being close to nearby places such as Bramley and Hough End. New Scarbro has a population of approximately 4668 people, with New Scarbro predominantly consisting of terraced housing. New Scarbro sits at an elevation of 119 metres, with New Scarbro being around 3.3 miles from Leeds city centre.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, New Scarbro included
New Scarbro is a small village, and our vans that cover it also work the places around it, Tannery Yard and Hough End among them, across the LS postcode area. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting LS13 3.
Your car remains put. Anywhere it sits — beside Church Hall, on a layby heading to Ducky Hills, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of Bramley Library? Close to a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
In short, for New Scarbro motorists
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in West Yorkshire.