West Cowick: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around West Cowick. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds the motor — but plenty of current diesels driven about West Cowick and Gowdall hold a second fluid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Other cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have both together behind one flap. Diesel goes in at each forecourt call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around West Cowick?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a drive off Finnley's Lane before work, or in the car park outside The Ship Inn heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. It's a few seconds, whether out in Snaith or right in the centre of West Cowick.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Rawcliffe or a forecourt around West Cowick.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- On many motors, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many cars mark which goes in each filler right there.
- The handbook says where it lives when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Snaith, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever across East Riding of Yorkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor off, and never in a rush by High Street on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in West Cowick already?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. Keep the ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on by itself runs your fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
The staff at Gulf, Carlton Service Station or any forecourt will usually help to push the car away when asked. If you're on your own drive in West Cowick, leave the vehicle where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. West Cowick sits under a mile from the M62; on it, use the first exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across West Cowick is smaller work than a trip of under 15 miles towards Doncaster, and so tell us.
What happens when we get there in West Cowick
Our van reaches the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own drive, near Snaith Methodist Church, or outside Snaith Primary School. Which fluid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our technicians ask because those answers decide both work and quote. That price is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing washes out unaided, no matter how long it sits. Filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor hasn't run need about half an hour once our technicians are there. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About West Cowick
West Cowick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated near the towns of Snaith and Goole, and close to the M18 and M62 motorways. West Cowick lies in a low-lying area of the Humberhead Levels, at an elevation of around 8 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. West Cowick is located near the villages of East Cowick and Carlton, and is around 12 miles from the city of Doncaster.
West Cowick and East Riding of Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout DN postcodes, our teams that cover West Cowick — a rural village — work the surrounding spots too, Carlton and East Cowick included. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting DN14 9.
Your car remains where it is. Anywhere it sits — near Holy Trinity Church, in a lay-by en route to Shearburn Plantation, at home — that's where it gets emptied. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Laurence Priory Church, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for West Cowick drivers
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it is, anywhere in East Riding of Yorkshire: switch the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103.