Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tockwith: Why It Occurs
Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Tockwith. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Not one fluid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels near Tockwith and Bilton Haggs carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the fumes.
Each tank has its own filler. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side under one flap. Diesel goes in on every filling station visit, week in, week out. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. That gap is where the error lives.
Tockwith: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a drive off Marston Road before work, or in the car park at Boot and Shoe on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and if it's empty, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar car.
No part stops 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 takes place in Bilton in Ainsty or the middle of Tockwith, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Tockwith forecourt or a driveway out in Kirk Hammerton, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the flap and check for a label — plenty of motors show what goes in which inlet right there.
- The handbook says where it lives if the filler is not 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 Hammerton.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around North Yorkshire, use this routine.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush beside Westfield Road at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Don't go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Tockwith?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Thinning it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Texaco, BP or another — the staff will usually help push your car away, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Tockwith.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Tockwith lies under 5 miles from the A1(M); there, take the first exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards York, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Tockwith.
Our arrival in Tockwith, and what takes place next
Outside Tockwith Church of England Primary Academy, close to Tockwith Village Hall or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. The answers determine the work and the price, so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run. The quote is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. After the filter has been flushed — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. Next our engineers start the car and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Tockwith itself
Tockwith is a small village in North Yorkshire, situated approximately 8 miles west of York, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Tockwith sits in a low-lying area at an elevation of around 25 metres, near the junction of several rural roads. Tockwith is surrounded by other small villages and hamlets, including Bilton in Ainsty, Bickerton, and Cattal. Tockwith has a population of around 714 residents, according to recent estimates.
AdBlue drains around Tockwith, and North Yorkshire beyond
Over YO postcodes, the teams covering Tockwith — a rural village — work the nearby spots too, Cattal and Bickerton among them. Quickest of all: give a YO26 7 postcode to our van.
Shifting your car isn't necessary. Draining takes place right there, be it a driveway, a street by Stirling Bomber crash monument, or a lay-by on the way to Bomber Crash Park. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Church of the Epiphany.
Tockwith people: the short version
Pour nothing till you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around North Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.