Skellow: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Keep the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle stands in Skellow, is normally all it needs if caught before your motor runs. Reading before the event? In that case the rest covers how it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Skellow and Owston carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what filler to use. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens in Skellow
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Buttercross, or at The Burghwallis on the way home that evening.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Skellow or out in Carcroft.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Carcroft Common or a forecourt in Skellow.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what goes in which filler right there.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Adwick's car park, perhaps — not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Anywhere in South Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Crossfield Lane on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It seems silly. It works.
- The two behind a single flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel filler is still closed before raising the bottle.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using its built-in spout.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Step five stays out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Skellow?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Keep your ignition off as well, because on many diesels it by itself runs the pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — BP, Esso or another — the staff will normally help roll the car away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Skellow.
Already run? Stop once it is sensible, then turn off. The next exit is the place to leave when you are on the Doncaster Bypass, under a mile from Skellow. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Doncaster, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Skellow.
What occurs when our engineers arrive in Skellow
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Owston Park Primary Academy, near St Michael & All Angels or on your own drive. Both the work and the quote rest on three answers — what fluid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. Nobody sets off before you've had our price over the phone.
Then that tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes away on its own, no matter how long it is left. Once the filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and then the car gets tested. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Skellow itself
Skellow is a suburban area situated on the riverside in South Yorkshire, with an elevation of 19 metres above sea level. Skellow lies approximately 5.3 miles from Doncaster and is surrounded by nearby places such as Carcroft, Burghwallis, and Adwick le Street. Skellow has a population of around 3276 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Skellow is located about 150.6 miles north of London, in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
AdBlue drains across South Yorkshire, Skellow included
Being a residential suburb, Skellow has the same vans as surrounding areas — Burghwallis, Adwick le Street — right through DN postcodes and the wider area beyond. A postcode starting DN6 8 gets the van to you fastest.
Moving your car is not needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Cuckoo Plantation, a side street near Saint Helen: we drain it where it is. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Robin Hood's Well? Close to a border? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
The short version for Skellow motorists
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across South Yorkshire.