AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pinders Fields: How It Happens and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine hasn't run, it's emptied and fully rinsed where your vehicle is around Pinders Fields. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains why it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels on the roads round Pinders Fields and St Johns carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Many of motors have a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Pinders Fields
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off A6194, or outside The Graziers on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors come second, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip begins, nothing stops it. East Moor or the heart of Pinders Fields: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Primrose Hill or a forecourt around Pinders Fields.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook says which it is if 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 Wakefield Kirkgate? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around West Yorkshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Ouchthorpe Lane, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently through its built-in spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check again that your diesel cap never opened off.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to stage five.
Pinders Fields: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Do not start your engine: that's where the short order of things begins. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Total Energies, ask the staff to help push your car away from the petrol pump. If you're on your own driveway around Pinders Fields, leave the vehicle where it sits.
When your motor has run by now, pull over safely then turn it off. On the M62, under 3 miles from Pinders Fields, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Pinders Fields is less work than a run of under a mile towards Wakefield, and so tell us.
When our technicians turn up in Pinders Fields, what takes place?
Wherever the vehicle has stopped, be it outside Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School, near Mental Health Muesum or at home, our van comes to it. What liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because those replies set both work and quote. No one sets off until you have had the price over the phone.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. Then we fire it up and confirm it runs smoothly before we go.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Pinders Fields, for a moment
Pinders Fields is a suburban area located near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of around 70 metres. Pinders Fields is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the residential development of the area. Pinders Fields is situated close to nearby places such as East Moor and Newton Hill, and is approximately 0.9 miles from Wakefield city centre.
AdBlue drains in Pinders Fields and across West Yorkshire
Pinders Fields is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Newton Hill and Wakefield among them, across the WF postcode area. Fastest of all: give a WF1 4 postcode to our van.
There's no need to move the car. Wherever it sits — beside H Gwynne Jones Building, on a lay-by heading to Normanton Golf Club, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. Tricky to explain, like the back of Destiny Christian Church? Close to a county line? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
Pinders Fields people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.