Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tinshill: Why It Happens
Leave your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, when the engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your car is in Tinshill. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single liquid but two: that's what many newer diesels around Tinshill and Ireland Wood carry, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Tinshill
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Bedford Drive before work, or in the car park at Tinshill and Cookridge Club and Institute on the way home.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after begun, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Tinshill or out in Low Farm.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Tinshill forecourt or a driveway out in Cookridge, take a few seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it next to your diesel inlet? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook will say where.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Horsforth.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — wherever you are across West Yorkshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Tinshill Close.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five is off limits.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Tinshill?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — so leave it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Shell, the Texaco or anywhere else. If you are on your own driveway in Tinshill, leave it where it stands.
Already run? Pull over when it is safe, then turn off. On the Inner Ring Road, under 5 miles from Tinshill, that means the next exit. Mileage counts — a short hop across Tinshill is a smaller job than heading under 5 miles to Leeds — so say roughly how far it went.
When our technicians turn up in Tinshill, what occurs?
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, whether outside Cookridge Primary School, beside Welcome In Community Centre or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run, because the replies settle this work and our price. You get that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. That is why it counts more. After your filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car is tested. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Tinshill itself
Tinshill is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Aire and approximately 4.4 miles from Leeds city centre. Tinshill sits at an elevation of 174 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby Tinshill Moor. Tinshill is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with nearby places including Low Farm and Troy. Tinshill is located about 173.5 miles north of London, making it a commuter hub for those working in the capital.
AdBlue drains around Tinshill and across West Yorkshire
Tinshill is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the places around it, Troy and Tinshill Moor among them, across the LS postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LS16 6.
Your car stays put. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a street near Tinshill Free Church, or a layby on the way to Ireland Wood. Awkward to explain, like the back of Holt Park Library? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, so ring.
The short version for Tinshill drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere across West Yorkshire.