Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Riddrie: Why It Occurs
Pause reading for a moment if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, when the motor has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly flushed where your car sits around Riddrie. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near Riddrie and Germiston run, with diesel for your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt visit, week in, week out. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Riddrie
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and running out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Almond Street, or at The Anvil Inn on the way home that evening.
Then the car is new. 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.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Riddrie or out in Blackhill.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Riddrie forecourt or a driveway out in Hogganfield, spend a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it beside the diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Alexandra Parade? Ask the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Glasgow City that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Earn Street.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Riddrie?
Short order, then. First: the engine stays off. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
At a forecourt — JET, Esso or another — the attendants will normally help push the car away, when you ask. If you are on your own driveway around Riddrie, leave it where it stands.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M8 — under a mile out of Riddrie — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Glasgow, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Riddrie.
When our engineers arrive in Riddrie, what takes place?
By the local primary school, close to Blackhill Bowling Club or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. The replies decide this work and our price, so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run. That price is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, once your tank is drained. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or replaced as needed. Your engine is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Unstarted cars usually need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Riddrie
Riddrie is a suburban area in Glasgow City, situated near the River Clyde at an elevation of 76 metres. Riddrie lies approximately 1.9 miles east of Glasgow city centre, with nearby suburbs including Blackhill, Provanmill, and Carntyne. Riddrie is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing and a population of around 5743 residents. Riddrie is also relatively distant from London, at around 344.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Riddrie, and Glasgow City beyond
Riddrie is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Provanmill and Carntyne among them, across the G postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts G33 2, and our van arrives fastest.
Your car remains put. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Molendinar Park, a side street close to Riddrie Library: our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. Guessing won't help behind Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
For Riddrie drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Glasgow City.