Selston Green: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Leave your engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your vehicle sits around Selston Green, is normally all it needs when found before your motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels in Hall Green, like those in Selston Green, run on two liquids; the engine takes only your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
Selston Green: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off St Helens Drive, or outside Bull and Butcher on the way home that evening.
Then the vehicle is strange. 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.
Nothing stops the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Toadhole or the heart of Selston Green: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Allens Green or a forecourt around Selston Green, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Open the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the 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 — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Alfreton.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — wherever it is in Nottinghamshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and not rushed by Sycamore Close on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Selston Green?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the BP, the Gulf or somewhere else. If you are on your own drive in Selston Green, leave it where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Selston Green sits under 3 miles from the M1; there, use the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Nottingham, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Selston Green.
When our technicians get there in Selston Green, what takes place?
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Selston Church of England Infant and Nursery School, near St Helen's Church Selston or on your own driveway. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. The quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Selston Green and where it is
Selston Green is a suburban area in Nottinghamshire, situated approximately 10.7 miles from Nottingham and 119.3 miles from London. Selston Green has a population of around 1331 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Selston Green is located near other small suburban areas, including Toadhole, Dove Green, and Barrows Green, in the East Midlands region. Selston Green sits at an elevation of 126 metres, in a gently rolling inland landscape.
AdBlue drains in Selston Green and across Nottinghamshire
Over NG postcodes, our teams covering Selston Green — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Barrows Green and Dove Green among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting NG16 6.
No need to move the car. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Selston Community Partnership Library, a lay-by on the way to Selston Country Park, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Tin Hat Centre, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Selston Green drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Nottinghamshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103.