Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newark-on-Trent: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, if your motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly flushed where the vehicle sits in Newark-on-Trent. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads about Newark-on-Trent and Balderton carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where a spray treats the gas.
There's a filler for every tank. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two side by side under one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Newark-on-Trent
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off Bridge Street before work, or in the car park outside White Hide Bar on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as easily, and after the tip begins, no part stops it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Newark-on-Trent or out in Beacon Hill.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Kelham or a forecourt in Newark-on-Trent, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- On many vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show which belongs in which inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- 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 Newark Castle.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Wherever across Nottinghamshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush by Carter Gate on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, but it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure the diesel filler remained closed throughout. Only then, start the car.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Don't carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Newark-on-Trent?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — so leave it off. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Asda, Esso or another — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Newark-on-Trent.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. Newark-on-Trent lies under 25 miles from the M1; there, take the first exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Newark-on-Trent is less a job than a run of under 25 miles to Lincoln, and so tell us.
When we arrive around Newark-on-Trent, what occurs?
Anywhere the car came to rest, be it outside Mount CofE Primary School, beside Church of St Mary Magdalene or at home, the van comes to it. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, since those replies settle this work and our price. During the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. Hence it matters more. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Next we start the car and make sure it runs smoothly before we leave.
If your motor has not run, most 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 after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Newark-on-Trent itself
Newark-on-Trent is a town situated on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, with a population of around 18188 people. Newark-on-Trent has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced properties. Newark-on-Trent sits at an elevation of 24 metres, close to the nearby settlements of Beacon Hill, New Balderton, and Hawton. Newark-on-Trent is located near the city of Lincoln, which is approximately 15.7 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Newark-on-Trent, and Nottinghamshire beyond
Newark-on-Trent is a riverside town, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, New Balderton and Hawton among them, across the NG postcode area. Quickest of all: give a NG24 1 postcode to our van.
Your car does not need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Sherwood Avenue Play Park, a side street near Barnbygate Methodist Church: we drain it where it stands. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Market Square, ring and ask rather than assuming.
For Newark-on-Trent drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Nottinghamshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.