How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Trory
Keep your motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Trory. Reading in advance? In that case the rest covers why it comes about and how to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to your engine — but many newer diesels driven round Trory and Killadeas carry a second liquid too. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, week in, week out. Much less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Trory
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Crown Street before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after begun, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Ballycassidy or the middle of Trory, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Enniskillen or a forecourt in Trory.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show what goes in each filler just there.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel inlet? In that case check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say where.
- Ask 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 the nearest station.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere around County Fermanagh the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Crom Street.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have located the filler and read the cap.
- Both behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Trory?
Do not start your motor: that's how the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it alone starts your pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or another — the attendants will usually help push your car away, when you ask. If you are on your own driveway around Trory, leave the vehicle where it stands.
Already run? Stop once it is safe, then switch off. The next junction means where to leave when you are on the M77, over 50 miles from Trory. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Trory is smaller a job than a trip of under 50 miles towards Armagh, so say.
What occurs when we turn up around Trory
Wherever your car has stopped, be it outside the local primary school, near the centre or at home, our van comes to it. What liquid went in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since the replies decide both work and price. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. That is why it counts more. A test comes at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it is running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we arrive, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Trory
Trory is a small locality in County Fermanagh, situated inland at an elevation of 59 metres. Trory lies near several nearby settlements, including Ballycassidy, Springfield, and Ballinamallard, and is approximately 39.9 miles from the city of Armagh. Trory is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Trory is a relatively small community, with a population of around 527 people.
AdBlue drains in Trory and across County Fermanagh
As a small village, Trory shares its vans nearby areas — Springfield, Ballinamallard — all the way through BT postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting BT94 2 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to shift the vehicle. A drive, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a side street near a street just off the centre: our engineers drain the car where it sits. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of the far end of the built-up part.
In short, for Trory people
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it stands, wherever in County Fermanagh: switch the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.