Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in West Gallatown: Why It Occurs
Leave the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around West Gallatown. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers how it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near West Gallatown and Dysart run, with diesel for your motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the mistake lives.
West Gallatown: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
On a driveway off Pottery Street before work, or in the car park outside The Elbow Room on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and after the tip begins, nothing stops it. Gallatown or the middle of West Gallatown: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a West Gallatown forecourt or a drive over in Smeaton, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — plenty of cars mark what belongs in each filler just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Check when you collect a hire car or company car — at Kirkcaldy's car park, perhaps — not once the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever you are across Fife — a routine to follow.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Dunnikier Way.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel filler stayed shut throughout. After that, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around West Gallatown?
Brief list, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. Keep your ignition off as well, since on many diesels switching it on alone runs the pump. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, just where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Asda, BP or another — the staff will normally help push your car away, if you ask. If you're on your own driveway in West Gallatown, leave the vehicle where it sits.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M90, under 10 miles from West Gallatown, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Crossing West Gallatown is smaller a job than a trip of under 15 miles towards Edinburgh, so tell us.
When our engineers arrive in West Gallatown, what occurs?
Outside the local primary school, near Gallatown Community Hub or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Those answers determine the work and our price, so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it has run. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — before anything else.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Much more than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of that washes out unaided, however long it sits. Once your filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. Next our engineers fire it up and check it runs properly before we go.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need roughly half an hour once our technicians are there. 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, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About West Gallatown itself
West Gallatown is a coastal suburban area in Fife, situated near the towns of Gallatown and Sinclairtown. West Gallatown has a relatively low elevation of 82 metres and is located approximately 12.7 miles from Edinburgh. West Gallatown is characterized by its predominant housing type, which is flats, and is part of the wider residential area surrounding the city. West Gallatown is also close to other nearby places such as Boreland.
West Gallatown and Fife: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, West Gallatown shares its vans surrounding areas — Sinclairtown, Boreland — right through KY postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting KY1 3 gets our van to you fastest.
The car doesn't need to move. Wherever it sits — near Fife Ice Arena, on a layby en route to Gallatown Park, at home — that is where it is cleared. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Overton Mains Community Centre, ring and ask rather than assuming.
For West Gallatown drivers, the short version
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Fife, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.