AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in North Wheatley: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, leave your ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around North Wheatley. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the why it happens and the how to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of current diesels seen around North Wheatley and Clarborough carry another fluid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on every filling station call-out, week in, week out. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in North Wheatley: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Top Street, perhaps at The Sun Inn on the way home after work.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as readily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. South Wheatley or the heart of North Wheatley: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around North Wheatley or a driveway over in Clayworth. A few seconds, no more.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what goes in which filler just there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Gainsborough Lea Road? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — anywhere you are in Nottinghamshire — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Goacher's Lane, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've located the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then check again — confirm your diesel cap remained shut throughout. After that, start your car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around North Wheatley?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your engine. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Morrisons, Shell or any forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle clear when asked. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in North Wheatley.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. North Wheatley sits under 10 miles from the Doncaster By-Pass; on it, use the next junction. A short hop across North Wheatley is a smaller job than a run towards Doncaster, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians arrive around North Wheatley
The van comes to the car anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near Wheatley Methodist Chapel, or outside North Wheatley Church of England Primary School. Both the work and the price rest on three replies — which liquid, what amount, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. That quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The engine is started next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before we go.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run take about half an hour once we are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About North Wheatley and where it is
North Wheatley is a small village in Nottinghamshire, situated on the banks of the River Trent at an elevation of around 33 metres. North Wheatley has a population of approximately 515 people and is characterised by detached housing. North Wheatley is located near other villages such as South Wheatley, Hayton, and Sturton le Steeple, and is about 15.5 miles from Doncaster.
AdBlue drains around North Wheatley and across Nottinghamshire
North Wheatley is a village, and the teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Hayton and Sturton le Steeple among them, across the DN postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts DN22 9, and our van gets there quickest.
The vehicle remains put. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Church of St Peter and St Pauls, a lay-by on the way to Wheatley Wood, a driveway. Awkward to pin down, like the back of North and South Wheatley New Village Hall? Close to a county line? Checking beats guessing, so phone.
For North Wheatley people, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, anywhere in Nottinghamshire: switch the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.