Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Town End
Stop here a minute if your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where the car sits in Town End, is normally what it needs when caught before your motor runs. Reading before the event? In that case what follows explains why it comes about and how to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of current diesels driven around Town End and Lower Grange hold another fluid as well. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. Diesel gets filled on every forecourt visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Town End
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
On a driveway off Back Fold before work, or in the car park outside Black Bull on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. It's a few seconds, whether in Clayton or right in the centre of Town End.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Clayton Heights or a forecourt in Town End.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Bradford Forster Square? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around West Yorkshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Town End Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never opened off.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Never carry on to step five.
Town End: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. Keep the ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Esso, Texaco or another — the staff will usually help roll your car away, when you ask. On your own drive around Town End? Then the vehicle stays where it is.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M606, under 5 miles from Town End, that means the next exit. A short hop across Town End is a smaller job than a run towards Bradford, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers get there in Town End
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Clayton St John CofE Primary School, close to Church Of St. John The Baptist, Clayton or on your own driveway. The replies settle this work and the quote, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. The price comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. After that we start the engine and make sure it runs smoothly before leaving.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Town End and where it is
Town End is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 4091 residents. Town End sits at an elevation of 216 metres, close to the city of Bradford, which is approximately 2.7 miles away. Town End is near other local places such as Clayton, Lane End, and Leaventhorpe, and is located about 172.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Town End and across West Yorkshire
Over BD postcodes, the vans that cover Town End — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Leaventhorpe and Lane End included. Quote a postcode that starts BD14 6, and our van arrives quickest.
Your car doesn't need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to The Delph, a side street close to Clayton Library: our engineers drain the car where it stands. Tricky to explain, like the back of Clayton Baptist Church? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
Town End people: the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — and so leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.