Why It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Sudbrooke Park
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Sudbrooke Park. 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 vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to your motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen round Sudbrooke Park and Reepham hold a second liquid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two together under one flap. Diesel goes in on each forecourt visit, again and again. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Sudbrooke Park?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
On a driveway off Main Drive before work, or in the car park at Bottle & Glass heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you motors are second, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company motors put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Sudbrooke Park or out in Sudbrooke.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Stainton by Langworth or a forecourt in Sudbrooke Park.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Lincoln Central? Check with the person who drove it last before you set off, rather than once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever around Lincolnshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of West Drive.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft 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 the vehicle on.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly through the own spout.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel cap stayed shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Sudbrooke Park?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — UK, Lincoln Kiln Dried Logs or any other — the staff will normally help roll the vehicle away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Sudbrooke Park.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Come off the M180 — under 25 miles out of Sudbrooke Park — at the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Sudbrooke Park is a smaller job than heading under 5 miles to Lincoln — so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival in Sudbrooke Park, and what occurs next
Our van reaches your car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near Saint Edward the Confessor, or by Ellison Boulters Church of England Primary School. The answers determine this work and the price, and so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. No one heads out until you've had our quote by phone.
Then your tank is cleared and the system cleaned thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a check of the car. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before our engineers leave.
Unrun vehicles usually need a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Sudbrooke Park and where it is
Sudbrooke Park is a locality situated near the River Witham in Lincolnshire, with Sudbrooke Park itself lying close to the villages of Sudbrooke and Scothern. Sudbrooke Park is characterized by its detached housing and relatively low elevation of around 20 metres above sea level. Sudbrooke Park benefits from its proximity to Lincoln, which is approximately 4.9 miles away, making it a commuter-friendly location. Sudbrooke Park is also within easy reach of London, being around 122.7 miles distant.
Sudbrooke Park and Lincolnshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Scothern and Langworth are among the towns around Sudbrooke Park, a small village, that the same vans cover, throughout LN postcodes. A postcode starting LN2 2 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Grange Park, a side street close to St Germain: we drain it where it is. Guessing won't help at the back of Scothern Recreation Centre, on a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for Sudbrooke Park drivers
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, wherever across Lincolnshire: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.