How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Thorneywood
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave the ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your car stands in Thorneywood, is usually what it takes when found before your motor runs. Here in advance? Then the rest explains why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads round Thorneywood and St Anns carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from its own tank.
There's a filler on every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Thorneywood?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle 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 Bramble Drive before work, or in the car park at New Engine House on the way home.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Thorneywood or out in Bakers Fields.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Mapperley or a forecourt around Thorneywood, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many motors mark what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook shows which it is if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Carlton.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around Nottinghamshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Briarbank Avenue, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, make sure it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Thorneywood?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
Ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Co-op or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Thorneywood.
Already started? Pull over once it's safe, then turn off. The next exit is the place to leave when you are on the M1, under 10 miles from Thorneywood. A short hop across Thorneywood is a smaller job than a run towards Nottingham, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Thorneywood: what happens when our engineers arrive
Our van reaches your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, beside The Brickyard Community Centre, or by Standhill Infants' School. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — what fluid, which amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — before dispatch.
Then your tank is cleared and the system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. The filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a check of your car. Then our engineers start the engine and confirm it runs smoothly before we leave.
If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Thorneywood and where it is
Thorneywood is a locality situated in the East Midlands region of England, approximately 1.7 miles from Nottingham city centre. Thorneywood sits at an elevation of around 86 metres, surrounded by nearby places such as Bakers Fields, Alexandra Park, and Porchester. Thorneywood is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Thorneywood is located inland, about 109 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across Nottinghamshire, Thorneywood included
Being a neighbourhood, Thorneywood shares its vans surrounding places — Alexandra Park, Porchester — all the way across NG postcodes and the wider area around them. A postcode starting NG3 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Moving the car is not needed. Anywhere it sits — near St John's Methodist Church, in a layby heading to Honeywood: The Brickyard Work Out, at home — that's where it gets emptied. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Carlton Community Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Thorneywood motorists
Pour nothing until you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Nottinghamshire.