Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Strawberry Hill: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. In Strawberry Hill, finding it before your motor turns usually leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. Reading before the event? Then the rest covers how it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads round Strawberry Hill and Purston Jaglin carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. Diesel goes in at each forecourt call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Strawberry Hill: how it takes place
It is hardly ever 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, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Tall Trees Drive before work, or in the car park outside Featherstone Working Mens Club on the way home.
The old car's filler is where your hand goes — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, carries on. North Featherstone or the heart of Strawberry Hill: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Strawberry Hill or a driveway over in Snydale. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Featherstone, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever it is around West Yorkshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Vicarage Gardens.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at the second or third step that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Don't carry on to stage five.
Strawberry Hill: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Do not start your engine: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Diluting it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where the fuel is sucked from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Gulf or the BP, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Strawberry Hill.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Leave the M62 — under 3 miles out of Strawberry Hill — at the next exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Wakefield, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Strawberry Hill.
Our arrival in Strawberry Hill, and what happens next
The van comes to the car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near All Saints Church, or outside Featherstone North Featherstone Junior and Infant School. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. During the phone call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of anything else.
Then your tank is emptied and your system cleaned thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, however long it is left. After the filter is cleaned — or renewed, where required — fresh diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and check that it's running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill is a locality in West Yorkshire, situated near the city of Wakefield and close to the communities of North Featherstone, Ackton, and Featherstone. Strawberry Hill lies inland, with an elevation of around 47 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Strawberry Hill is located approximately 5.7 miles from Wakefield and is part of the larger West Yorkshire urban landscape.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Strawberry Hill included
Strawberry Hill is a small village, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Ackton and Featherstone among them, across the WF postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning WF7 6, and the van gets there quickest.
The car does not need to move. The drain happens on the spot, be it a drive, a street by Featherstone Rovers RLFC, or a layby on the way to Featherstone Memorial Garden. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Post Office Road, ring and ask rather than assuming.
For Strawberry Hill drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it is, wherever in West Yorkshire: keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.