AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Norton Tower: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands around Norton Tower, is usually what it takes if found before your engine runs. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of modern diesels driven around Norton Tower and Pellon hold a second fluid too. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh 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 forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Norton Tower: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Vicar Park Road before work, or in the car park outside The Maypole Inn heading home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
New-to-you vehicles are second, too. Rentals, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the pour begins, no part halts it. Whether it happens in Warley Town or the middle of Norton Tower, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Highroad Well Moor or a forecourt around Norton Tower.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives when the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Sowerby Bridge? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is across West Yorkshire — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Gleanings Drive, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out stage five altogether.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Norton Tower already?
Brief list, then. First: the engine remains off. Keep your ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your pump. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the the nearest petrol station or the BP, ask the staff to help push your car away from the pump. On your own drive around Norton Tower? Then the car remains put.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M62 — under 5 miles out of Norton Tower — at the next exit. Mileage counts — a short hop across Norton Tower is a smaller job than heading under 10 miles to Bradford — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers arrive around Norton Tower
Our van reaches the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Warley Museum, or by Warley Town School. The replies settle the work and our price, and so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. You hear that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a test of your car. Before we go, we fire it up and make sure that it's running smoothly.
If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Norton Tower, briefly
Norton Tower is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 315 metres, approximately 7.9 miles from Bradford. Norton Tower is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in the region. Norton Tower sits near other local places, including Warley Town, Highroad Well, and Willow Field, and is home to a population of around 2761 residents.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Norton Tower included
Throughout HX postcodes, the vans covering Norton Tower — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Willow Field and Highroad Well included. Quote a postcode beginning HX2 0, and our van gets there fastest.
Moving your car isn't needed. We drain it where it is — a side street near St John the Evangelist, a lay-by on the way to West End Golf Club, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of St Columba's Church? By a border? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
The short version for Norton Tower people
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout West Yorkshire.