Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rodley: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your car stands around Rodley, is normally what it takes when found before your engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your motor — but plenty of modern diesels driven round Rodley and Farsley hold another liquid too. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two together under one flap. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Rodley?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
Haste comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Prospect View, or on the way home in the car park at The Owl Inn.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and after the pour starts, no part stops it. It takes a few seconds, be it in Farsley Beck Bottom or bang in the centre of Rodley.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Wellroyd or a forecourt in Rodley, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside New Pudsey.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is around West Yorkshire — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush by Airedale Mount on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it does the trick.
- 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, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Rodley?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Esso, the Jet or anywhere else. At home around Rodley? So the vehicle stays put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Rodley sits under 5 miles from the Inner Ring Road; there, take the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Bradford, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Rodley.
Rodley: what takes place when our engineers turn up
The van reaches the vehicle wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, beside The Church in Rodley, or by Valley View Community Primary School. What fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the replies set the work and quote. No one sets off until you have heard our quote by phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, once your tank is drained. 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. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. After that our engineers start it and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
If the engine hasn't 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 at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Rodley and where it is
Rodley is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated on the banks of the River Aire at an elevation of 64 metres. Rodley lies approximately 4.3 miles west of Bradford and is surrounded by other local places such as Farsley Beck Bottom and Intake. Rodley has a population of around 3150 people and is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing. Rodley is located about 172.4 miles north of London, in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Rodley included
As a residential suburb, Rodley shares its vans nearby places — Intake, Half Mile — right across LS postcodes and the surrounding area around them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting LS13 1.
The car stays where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Calverley WWI, a lay-by on the way to Rodley Sports Ground, a driveway. Assuming won't help behind Farsley WWI, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
In short, for Rodley people
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere across West Yorkshire.