Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in South Field: Why It Happens
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, when your engine has not turned, it is drained and thoroughly purged where your vehicle is in South Field. 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 doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels around Northfield, like those in South Field, run on two liquids; your motor takes just your diesel. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Many of vehicles have a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled 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 regularly. That gap is where the slip lives.
South Field: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Southfield before work, or in the car park at The Country Park Inn on the way home.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once begun, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of South Field or out in West Hill.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Barton Waterside or a forecourt in South Field, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors show what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook shows which it lives if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Hessle, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around East Riding of Yorkshire that is.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Woodfield Lane.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Both under a single flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel filler stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Don't go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around South Field already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
The staff at Esso, Sainsbury's or any forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the vehicle clear when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around South Field.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M180 — under 10 miles out of South Field — at the first junction. Mileage counts — a quick hop across South Field makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Kingston upon Hull — so tell us about how far it went.
When our engineers turn up around South Field, what happens?
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside All Saints Church of England Infant Academy, close to Start of Wolds Way or on your own drive. We ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, because the answers decide this work and the price. No one heads out until you've had our price by phone.
Then the tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. That is why it counts more. The filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. Then our technicians start the engine and check it runs smoothly before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About South Field and where it is
South Field is a suburban area located near the city of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. South Field sits at an elevation of around 30 metres, close to the Humber Estuary and the nearby settlements of West Hill, Hessle Cliff, and Hessle. South Field is home to approximately 2300 residents, who enjoy the area's coastal setting and proximity to the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is about 5 miles away. South Field is also relatively distant from London, at around 153 miles away.
AdBlue drains in South Field and across East Riding of Yorkshire
As a residential suburb, South Field has the same vans as surrounding areas — Hessle Cliff, Hessle — all the way through HU postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Quickest of all: give a HU13 0 postcode to the van.
The car does not need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Humber Bridge Country Park, a side street close to Tower Hill Methodist Church: our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Church Hall, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for South Field drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across East Riding of Yorkshire.