Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in West Royd: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Around West Royd, catching it before the engine runs usually leaves draining and a thorough flush where it stands. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near West Royd and Wrose carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It's in that gap that the mistake lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in West Royd: how it occurs
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Westroyd Terrace before work, or in the car park outside The Alma Inn heading home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car warns you, and if it's gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you motors are next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company motors put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip starts, no part stops it. Idle Moor or the middle of West Royd: it is the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Thackley End or a forecourt around West Royd, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- On many vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Shipley.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in West Yorkshire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Lynden Avenue.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look once more — confirm the diesel filler remained shut the whole time. After that, start the car.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Skip step five altogether.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around West Royd already?
Don't start your engine: that's how the short order of things starts. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at Texaco, BP or any forecourt will normally help pushing your car clear if you ask. On your own drive in West Royd? Then the car remains put.
Already run? Pull over once it's safe, then switch off. The next exit means the place to come off if you're on the M606, under 5 miles from West Royd. Distance matters — a short hop across West Royd makes a smaller job than heading under 5 miles towards Bradford — so tell us about how far it went.
When our engineers get there around West Royd, what occurs?
Our van comes to the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near West Cote Park 1998 Memorial Stone, or by St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask because those replies set both work and quote. You get that price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. Once the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel is added, and then the car gets tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive, provided your engine has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About West Royd itself
West Royd is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Aire and close to the city of Bradford. West Royd sits at an elevation of 142 metres, with nearby open spaces including Idle Moor and Wood End. West Royd has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant in the area. West Royd is located approximately 3.1 miles from Bradford city centre, making it a commuter-friendly location.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, West Royd included
As a residential suburb, West Royd has the same vans as surrounding areas — Low Ash, Wood End — right through BD postcodes and the wider area around them. A postcode starting BD18 1 gets the van to you fastest.
The car remains put. Draining happens right there, be it a driveway, a street near Windhill Community Centre, or a layby on the way to Catstones Wood. Assuming doesn't help at the back of Christchurch, Windhill, close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
In short, for West Royd people
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere across West Yorkshire.