How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Victoria Dock Village
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. In Victoria Dock Village, finding it before the engine runs normally means a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many modern diesels in Drypool, like those in Victoria Dock Village, carry on two liquids; your motor takes just the diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the slip lives.
Victoria Dock Village: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off South Bridge Road, perhaps at Lion and Key on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a strange vehicle.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Garrison Side or the middle of Victoria Dock Village: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Lisle Court or a forecourt in Victoria Dock Village.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Hull? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, not once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere across East Riding of Yorkshire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Consort Court, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using the own spout.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never go on to step five.
Victoria Dock Village: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the Shell, ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump. On your own drive in Victoria Dock Village? Then the car stays put.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the M180 — under 15 miles out of Victoria Dock Village — at the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Kingston upon Hull, under a mile away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Victoria Dock Village.
When our technicians arrive around Victoria Dock Village, what happens?
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Victoria Dock Primary School, close to Hull Castle or on your own driveway. What liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since those replies set both work and quote. That quote comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. After your filter is flushed — or replaced, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally the car gets tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Victoria Dock Village and where it is
Victoria Dock Village is a coastal locality in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated near the city of Kingston upon Hull. Victoria Dock Village sits at a low elevation of around 5 metres, reflecting its proximity to the sea. Victoria Dock Village is characterized by predominantly flat housing, with nearby areas including Garrison Side and Trinity Court.
Victoria Dock Village and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Victoria Dock Village is a coastal area, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Kingston upon Hull and Trinity Court among them, across the HU postcode area. Quickest of all: give a HU9 1 postcode for our van.
The vehicle remains where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Eel, a lay-by on the way to Rooted In Hull, a driveway. Awkward to explain, like the back of Salmon? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, so ring.
The short version for Victoria Dock Village people
Before you pour, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere in East Riding of Yorkshire: keep the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.