Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tothby: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it is drained and thoroughly flushed where the car is around Tothby. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your engine — but plenty of current diesels driven around Tothby and Rigsby carry another fluid too. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying treats the gas.
There's a filler on every tank. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two side by side behind one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Tothby?
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
On a driveway off Evison Crescent before work, or in the car park at The George Inn heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you motors come second, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Tothby or out in Alford.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Bilsby Field or a forecourt in Tothby, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is if the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask 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 at Thorpe Culvert.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are across Lincolnshire — a 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 Dixon Drive.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? So confirm the cap on the diesel filler is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, and look again — confirm your diesel filler stayed shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Tothby?
Do not start your engine: that's how the short order of things begins. Leave your ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on alone starts your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Hunts, the East End Garage or anywhere else. At home in Tothby? So your car stays where it is.
When your motor has been run already, stop somewhere safe and switch it off. Tothby sits under 50 miles from the M180; there, use the next exit. A short hop across Tothby is a smaller job than a run towards Lincoln, under 50 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when we arrive in Tothby
Our van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near Alford Methodist Church, or outside Alford Primary School. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since the replies determine this work and the price. During the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of dispatch.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your 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. The filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of your car. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it's running correctly.
If the motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Tothby
Tothby is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Lincolnshire, with an elevation of around 9 metres. Tothby lies near the towns of Alford and Ailby, and is also close to Thoresthorpe, in a region of eastern England known for its low-lying coastal plains. Tothby has a population of approximately 915 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Tothby is located about 29 miles from Lincoln and 122 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Tothby included
Being a rural hamlet, Tothby has the same vans as surrounding places — Ailby, Thoresthorpe — right across LN postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LN13 0.
The car doesn't need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Memorial Recreation Ground, a side street near Alford Manor House: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St Wilfrid, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Tothby motorists
Tip nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the car switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Lincolnshire.