Stokesley: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where the vehicle stands in Stokesley, is normally all it needs if caught before your engine runs. If you are 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 vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels in Brawith, like those in Stokesley, run on two liquids; your motor takes just your diesel. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two side by side behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which cap it needs. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Stokesley: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off North Road, or heading home in the car park at Spreadeagle.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle.
No part halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Market Place or the middle of Stokesley, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Seamer or a forecourt in Stokesley.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook says which it is if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a rental or company car — from Great Ayton's car park, perhaps — not when the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in North Yorkshire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Manor Close, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the car, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Stokesley?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
On a forecourt — Jet, Imperial or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. On your own drive around Stokesley? So the vehicle remains put.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Stokesley lies under 25 miles from the A66(M); there, use the next exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Stokesley is a smaller job than heading under 50 miles to Durham — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Stokesley: what happens when our engineers arrive
Anywhere the car came to rest, be it outside Stokesley Primary Academy, near Saints Peter and Paul or at home, our van travels to it. The answers decide this work and the price, so our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. The quote comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Then that tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of your car. The engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs properly, all before our engineers go.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run need roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Stokesley, briefly
Stokesley is a village situated on the River Leven in North Yorkshire, with a population of around 1554 people. Stokesley sits at an elevation of 67 metres, near the Market Place and Tame Bridge, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Stokesley is located approximately 26 miles from Durham and 209 miles from London, making it a rural community with a strong sense of local identity. Stokesley remains a quiet village with a mix of old and new buildings, including those found near Tanton.
AdBlue drains around Stokesley and across North Yorkshire
Tame Bridge and Tanton are among the places around Stokesley, a village, that the same vans cover, over TS postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a TS9 5 postcode to our van.
There's no need to move your car. The drain takes place right there, whether a drive, a road by Boyes Stokesley, or a lay-by towards Stokesley Par 3. Assuming won't help behind Stokesley Community Care, on a border, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The short version for Stokesley people
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout North Yorkshire.