Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newbold Moor: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine has not run, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where the vehicle sits in Newbold Moor. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel goes to the engine — but plenty of modern diesels driven about Newbold Moor and Sheepbridge carry another liquid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. Much less often, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Newbold Moor: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Mountcastle Street before work, or in the car park outside The Steelmelter's Arms on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a strange car.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. Whether it occurs in Whittington Moor or the middle of Newbold Moor, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt in Newbold Moor or a driveway out in Newbold. A few seconds, no more.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- The handbook shows where it lives when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Chesterfield? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Anywhere across Derbyshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of St. John's Mount, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located your filler and read it.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Newbold Moor already?
Don't start your motor: that's how the short order of things begins. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Esso or the Tesco, ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in Newbold Moor, leave it where it stands.
Where the motor has been run by now, stop safely and switch the car off. Newbold Moor sits under 5 miles from the M1; on it, use the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Newbold Moor is smaller a job than a run of under 10 miles to Sheffield, so say.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Newbold Moor
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it by Cavendish Junior School, beside Whittington Moor Methodist Church or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Both the work and our price rest on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Next our engineers fire it up and check it runs properly before leaving.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour once our technicians are there. 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 while we are on the way.
About Newbold Moor and where it is
Newbold Moor is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 88 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Newbold Moor lies approximately 8.6 miles from Sheffield and is close to nearby places such as Whittington Moor and Dunston. Newbold Moor has a population of around 4267 residents and is located in the East Midlands region, about 133 miles from London. Newbold Moor is part of the wider residential area surrounding Sheffield.
AdBlue drains around Newbold Moor and across Derbyshire
Dunston and The Bungalows are among the places near Newbold Moor, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout S postcodes. Fastest of all: give a S41 8 postcode to the van.
Shifting your car is not necessary. Anywhere it stands — beside St John's Church, on a layby heading to Stand Road Recreation Ground, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of SMH Group Stadium, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for Newbold Moor drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Derbyshire.