Weensland: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Keep your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Weensland. Here in advance? In that case the rest explains why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many modern diesels on the roads around Weensland and Hawick carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
There's a filler on every tank. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two together behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens constantly. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Weensland
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Weensland Park, or heading home in the car park outside Trinity Bar.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Burnfoot or the middle of Weensland, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Wilton or a forecourt in Weensland.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you collect a rental or fleet car — from the nearest station's car park, say — rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — wherever you are around Scottish Borders — a routine to follow.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Heronhill Bank.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The two under one flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- 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 look again that your diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Stage five is out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Weensland?
Don't start the engine: that is how the short order of things begins. Keep the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Esso, Morrisons or another — the staff will normally help roll your car away, when you ask. On your own drive around Weensland? Then your car stays put.
Where your motor has run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch it off. The next exit means the place to come off when you're on the A74(M), under 50 miles from Weensland. About how far did it go? Hopping across Weensland is smaller a job than a trip of under 50 miles towards Carlisle, so tell us.
Our arrival in Weensland, and what occurs next
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, beside Mansfield Park, or outside the local primary school. What liquid got in, the amount, and whether it ran: we ask because those replies decide the work and price. You get that quote on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. Once the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally your car gets tested. The engine is started next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Weensland
Weensland is a suburban area situated on the shores of a lake in the Scottish Borders, with an elevation of around 110 metres. Weensland lies near several small communities, including Burnfoot, Silverbuthall, and Bucklands, and is located approximately 37.7 miles from Carlisle. Weensland has a population of around 1671 people, primarily residing in semi-detached housing. Weensland is also relatively distant from major cities, with London being around 291.9 miles away.
Weensland and Scottish Borders: AdBlue drains across the area
Silverbuthall and Bucklands are among the towns near Weensland, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over TD postcodes. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting TD9 9.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. Draining happens right there, be it a driveway, a street by Albert Park, or a lay-by towards Weensland River Nature Park. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Waverley Mills Sign? Close to a county line? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
In short, for Weensland drivers
Pour nothing until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it stands, wherever in Scottish Borders: switch the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.