Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wellnage Myre
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Wellnage Myre. Reading before the event? In that case the rest explains why it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many current diesels on the roads round Wellnage Myre and Buxley carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which filler to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
Wellnage Myre: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Trinity Gardens, perhaps at Whip and Saddle on the way home after work.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
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 after it has started. Whether it occurs in Duns or the middle of Wellnage Myre, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Wellnage Myre forecourt or a drive over in Gavinton, spend a few seconds over these before any is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask when you pick up a rental or fleet car — from Reston's car park, perhaps — rather than once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever you are across Scottish Borders — a simple routine to follow.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, motor off, and never rushed beside Todlaw Road on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly through its built-in spout.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Wellnage Myre already?
Brief order, then. First: the motor remains unstarted. Keep the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Gulf or the JET, ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the pump. Your own driveway in Wellnage Myre is the place it should stay.
Already started? Pull over when it's safe, then switch off. The next exit means where to come off when you are on the M8, under 50 miles from Wellnage Myre. Distance counts — a short hop across Wellnage Myre makes a smaller job than driving under 50 miles to Edinburgh — so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians get there in Wellnage Myre, what happens?
Our van comes to your car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, near Polish War Memorial, or outside the local primary school. What liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask since the answers set both work and price. Nobody heads out before you have heard the price over the phone.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. The filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. Then our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before we leave.
If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Wellnage Myre
Wellnage Myre is a locality in the Scottish Borders, situated inland at an elevation of 137 metres, approximately 35 miles from Edinburgh. Wellnage Myre lies near several small settlements, including Duns, Cheeklaw, and Clockmill, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Wellnage Myre is a relatively small community, with a population of around 2134 people, and is located about 308 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across Scottish Borders, Wellnage Myre included
As a small village, Wellnage Myre has the same vans as surrounding places — Cheeklaw, Clockmill — all the way through TD postcodes and the wider area beyond. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting TD11 3.
The car doesn't need to shift. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road by Mercat Cross, or a layby towards Duns Park. Awkward to explain, like the back of War Memorial? By a border? Checking beats guessing, so phone.
For Wellnage Myre people, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Scottish Borders.