AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Upper Craigie: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your engine hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly purged where the car sits around Upper Craigie. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many modern diesels seen around Upper Craigie and Barnhill hold another liquid too. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Upper Craigie?
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car 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 driveway off Glenearn Road before work, or in the car park at The Abbotsford on the way home.
Then the vehicle is new. 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.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It takes seconds, whether out in Moncreiffe or right in the heart of Upper Craigie.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Upper Craigie or a driveway over in Scoonieburn. A few seconds, no more.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark what goes in which filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Perth, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Wherever in Perth and Kinross the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Glenlyon Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've found your filler and read it.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Step five is off limits.
Upper Craigie: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch it on. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car away from the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Morrisons or somewhere else. Your own drive in Upper Craigie is the place it should stay.
Already started? Pull over once it's safe, then switch off. The next junction means the place to leave when you're on the M90, under a mile from Upper Craigie. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Perth, under a mile away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Upper Craigie.
When our technicians get there around Upper Craigie, what happens?
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside Moncrieffe Church Centre, or outside the local primary school. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since the answers decide both work and quote. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — before anything else.
Draining the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears out unaided, however long it is left. Once your filter has been flushed — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally your car is tested. Before leaving, our technicians fire it up and check that it's running correctly.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. No money upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Upper Craigie and where it is
Upper Craigie is a suburban area situated on the banks of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Upper Craigie lies close to the city of Perth, which is approximately 0.9 miles away, and is near other nearby places such as Moncreiffe and Friarton. Upper Craigie has a relatively low elevation of around 14 metres above sea level, reflecting its riverside setting. Upper Craigie is home to a population of around 3829 people, living in a predominantly residential area.
AdBlue drains in Upper Craigie and across Perth and Kinross
Friarton and Craigie are among the places near Upper Craigie, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout PH postcodes. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting PH2 0.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to South Inch, a side street near Moncrieffe Parish Church: our technicians drain it where it is. Assuming doesn't help at the back of St Mary Magdalene's, close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
Upper Craigie motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in Perth and Kinross.