AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Skircoat Green: How It Happens and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the motor has not run, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where your car sits in Skircoat Green. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers how it happens and how to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads round Skircoat Green and Exley carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what cap it needs. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Skircoat Green
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Skircoat Green Road before work, or in the car park at Murgatroyd Arms on the way home.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Third, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as readily, and once the tip starts, nothing stops it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Skircoat Green or out in Copley.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Skircoat Green forecourt or a driveway out in Siddal, spend a few seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Halifax? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around West Yorkshire that is.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and not rushed by Godfrey Road on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find during the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Stage five is out.
Skircoat Green: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Don't start the motor: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so keep it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the pump. Your own driveway around Skircoat Green is the place it should stay.
When the motor has run already, pull over somewhere safe and turn the vehicle off. The next junction is where to come off if you are on the M62, under 3 miles from Skircoat Green. A short hop across Skircoat Green is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Skircoat Green, and what takes place next
Outside All Saints' CofE Primary School, close to Skircoat Library or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — what liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. The filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before we leave, our technicians start the engine and confirm that it's running properly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Skircoat Green
Skircoat Green is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Calder and characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Skircoat Green sits at an elevation of 148 metres, approximately 7.5 miles from Bradford and 168.3 miles from London. Skircoat Green is surrounded by nearby places such as Copley, Salterhebble, and Savile Park, and has a population of around 4129 residents.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Skircoat Green included
Throughout HX postcodes, our vans that cover Skircoat Green — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Savile Park and Salterhebble among them. A postcode starting HX3 0 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle does not need to move. Wherever it sits — beside All Saints, on a lay-by heading to Bankhouse Wood, on a drive — that is where it gets drained. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Old Crossleyans RUFC.
The short version for Skircoat Green motorists
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across West Yorkshire.