AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ullesthorpe: How It Happens and How to Avoid It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine hasn't turned, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your vehicle is in Ullesthorpe. 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.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels in Wibtoft, like those in Ullesthorpe, carry on two fluids; the motor gets only the diesel. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank has a filler of its own. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. It is in that gap that the mistake happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Ullesthorpe?
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Station Road, or heading home in the car park at The Chequers Country Inn.
Next, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
No part halts 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. Claybrooke Parva or the heart of Ullesthorpe: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Ullesthorpe or a drive over in Frolesworth. Seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Hinckley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
When the light comes on, wherever across Leicestershire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Dell, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both under one flap? So confirm the cap on your diesel side is still shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — making sure your diesel cap remained closed throughout. Only then, start the car.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays off limits.
Ullesthorpe: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your motor. Keep your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it by itself starts your fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the Texaco, the Esso or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Ullesthorpe.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. On the M1, under 3 miles from Ullesthorpe, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Ullesthorpe makes a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Leicester — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Ullesthorpe, and what takes place next
Outside Ullesthorpe Church of England Primary School, near Ullesthorpe Village Hall or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, because the replies decide the work and the quote. No one sets off before you have heard our quote by phone.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, however long it sits. The filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Ullesthorpe itself
Ullesthorpe is a village in Leicestershire, situated in the East Midlands region of England, with a population of around 1162 people. Ullesthorpe sits at an elevation of approximately 120 metres, about 11.5 miles from Leicester and 82.8 miles from London. Ullesthorpe is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is located near other small villages such as Claybrooke Parva and Ashby Parva.
AdBlue drains around Ullesthorpe, and Leicestershire beyond
Throughout LE postcodes, our vans that cover Ullesthorpe — a rural village — work the nearby locations too, Claybrooke Magna and Ashby Parva among them. Quote a postcode that starts LE17 5, and our van gets there quickest.
There's no need to move the car. Anywhere it stands — near St Peter, on a lay-by heading to Baldwin's Spinney, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. Assuming doesn't help behind Claybrook Magna Village Hall, close to a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
The short version for Ullesthorpe motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the car off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Leicestershire.