AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Old Basford: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
Keep the engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your vehicle sits around Old Basford, is usually all it needs if found before the engine runs. Here before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your motor — yet plenty of modern diesels driven around Old Basford and Cinderhill carry another fluid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
There's a filler for each tank. Many of vehicles have a single flap for the two, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at each filling station call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Old Basford
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up at once.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off David Lane, or heading home in the car park at Fox and Crown.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Old Basford or out in Highbury Vale.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Old Basford or a drive out in Sherwood. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Bulwell? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever in Nottinghamshire, follow this routine.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush by Vernon Road on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found the filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Old Basford?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — JET, Esso or another — the staff will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Old Basford.
When your motor has been run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. Old Basford sits under 3 miles from the M1; there, use the first junction. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Old Basford makes a smaller job than heading under 3 miles to Nottingham — so say about how far it went.
What takes place when we turn up in Old Basford
By Southwark Primary School, near New Generation Church or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the price rest on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so we ask. The price comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Then your tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. After the filter is flushed — or renewed, where required — clean diesel goes in, and then your vehicle gets tested. The motor is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Old Basford itself
Old Basford is a suburban area located on the River Leen in Nottinghamshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Old Basford sits near the city of Nottingham, approximately 2.4 miles from the city centre, and is close to nearby places such as Highbury Vale and Whitemoor. Old Basford has a population of around 7827 people and is situated at an elevation of 39 metres above sea level. Old Basford is part of the wider Nottingham urban area, within the East Midlands region.
AdBlue drains about Old Basford, and Nottinghamshire beyond
Throughout NG postcodes, the teams covering Old Basford — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, New Basford and Whitemoor among them. Quote a postcode that starts NG6 0, and our van gets there fastest.
Moving your car isn't necessary. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near NewLight Chapel International, a lay-by on the way to Vernon Park, a drive. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Old Basford Library? By a border? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
The short version for Old Basford motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, anywhere in Nottinghamshire: switch the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.