AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Sharlston: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in New Sharlston. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many current diesels on the roads around New Sharlston and Sharlston Common carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Many of vehicles have a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It is in the gap that the mistake happens.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in New Sharlston: how it occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Long Row, or heading home in the car park outside The Plough.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and after the pour starts, nothing halts it. It takes seconds, be it in Warmfield or right in the heart of New Sharlston.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Streethouse or a forecourt around New Sharlston, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Streethouse, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever across West Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Crossley Court, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both share a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — confirm the diesel filler stayed closed throughout. After that, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in New Sharlston already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
The staff at JET, Shell or any forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the car clear when asked. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in New Sharlston.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M62 — under 3 miles out of New Sharlston — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Wakefield, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across New Sharlston.
New Sharlston: what occurs when our engineers arrive
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, be it by Sharlston Community School, beside Sharlston War Memorial or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Those answers settle this work and the price, so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run. You get that quote by 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, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Then we start it and confirm it runs smoothly before we go.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job after arrival. The kit is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About New Sharlston itself
New Sharlston is a small village in West Yorkshire, situated near the city of Wakefield and surrounded by nearby places such as Warmfield and Woodhouse Common. New Sharlston has a population of around 502 people and is characterized by its predominance of terraced housing. New Sharlston sits at an elevation of 66 metres, in a relatively low-lying area of inland Yorkshire. New Sharlston is located approximately 3 miles from Wakefield and 159 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, New Sharlston included
Over WF postcodes, our teams covering New Sharlston — a rural village — work the nearby locations too, Goosehill and Woodhouse Common among them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting WF4 1.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Wherever it stands — beside Kirkthorpe Community Centre, on a layby heading to Warmfield Common, at home — that is where it is drained. Guessing won't help behind Sharlston Community Centre, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
For New Sharlston people, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in West Yorkshire.