AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tideswell: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, when the engine hasn't turned, it is drained and thoroughly flushed where your vehicle is in Tideswell. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of current diesels on the roads round Tideswell and Millers Dale carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. It's in the gap that the mistake happens.
Tideswell: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a drive off High Street before work, or in the car park at The Star Inn heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is a second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
No part halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it occurs in Lane Head or the middle of Tideswell, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Tideswell or a drive out in Windmill. Seconds, that's all.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — many cars show what belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Dove Holes's car park, say — rather than when the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — wherever it is in Derbyshire — a routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Parke Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Both under one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting 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 again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Step five stays off limits.
Tideswell: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start the engine: that is where the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself starts the pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
The staff at UK, another forecourt nearby or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing the car clear if asked. If you are on your own drive around Tideswell, leave the vehicle where it stands.
Where your motor has run already, stop somewhere safe then turn the car off. On the M67, under 25 miles from Tideswell, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Tideswell is less a job than a trip of under 15 miles to Sheffield, so tell us.
When our technicians turn up around Tideswell, what happens?
The van reaches your car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, near Fountain Square Church, or outside Bishop Pursglove CofE (A) Primary School. The answers determine the work and the price, and so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. That quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. After your filter has been flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Tideswell
Tideswell is a village in the Peak District National Park, situated in the heart of Derbyshire at an elevation of 296 metres. Tideswell lies approximately 14.5 miles from Sheffield and is surrounded by nearby villages such as Lane Head, Litton, and Wheston. Tideswell has a population of around 1554 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Tideswell is located inland, about 140.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Derbyshire, Tideswell included
Being a rural village, Tideswell shares its vans surrounding places — Litton, Wheston — all the way through SK postcodes and the wider area around them. A postcode starting SK17 8 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle does not need to move. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street by St John the Baptist, or a layby on the way to Derbyshire Dales National Nature Reserve. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Tideswell Community Hall.
The short version for Tideswell people
Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it is, anywhere across Derbyshire: switch the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.