AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in West Butterwick: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Pause here a minute if your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out just where the vehicle sits around West Butterwick, is usually all it needs if found before the engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the page explains the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — yet plenty of current diesels driven about West Butterwick and Derrythorpe carry another fluid as well. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Much less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
West Butterwick: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off West Street before work, or in the car park outside Three Horse Shoes on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode follows.
New-to-you motors come next, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company motors put their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. Whether it occurs in East Butterwick or the middle of West Butterwick, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a West Butterwick forecourt or a drive over in Susworth, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything is poured in.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to your diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook will say which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Althorpe? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever around Lincolnshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never in a rush beside North Street at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Stage five stays off limits.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in West Butterwick already?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the motor stays unstarted. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, right where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Asda, JET or any other — the staff will normally help push the car clear, if you ask. At home in West Butterwick? Then the car remains put.
Where your engine has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. West Butterwick lies under 3 miles from the M180; there, take the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across West Butterwick is less a job than a run of under 25 miles to Doncaster, so tell us.
Our arrival in West Butterwick, and what occurs next
By West Butterwick C of E Primary Academy, near St Marys or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the replies determine the work and our quote. On the phone call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Draining your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel 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. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. After that we fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before we go.
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 working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About West Butterwick, for a moment
West Butterwick is a village situated on the banks of the River Trent in Lincolnshire, with a low elevation of around 7 metres above sea level. West Butterwick lies near several other small settlements, including East Butterwick and Beltoft, and is located approximately 16 miles from the city of Doncaster. West Butterwick has a population of around 918 people, predominantly living in detached houses. West Butterwick is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of around 143 miles.
AdBlue drains around West Butterwick and across Lincolnshire
Over DN postcodes, our teams covering West Butterwick — a village — work the nearby locations too, Beltoft and North Ewster included. A postcode starting DN17 3 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car does not need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to West Butterwick Playing Field, a side street near St Andrew's Church: our engineers drain the car where it stands. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Fred Woofit Memorial Hall.
The short version for West Butterwick motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever in Lincolnshire: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.