Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wibsey
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine has not run, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle is in Wibsey. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds the engine — but plenty of current diesels driven around Wibsey and Odsal carry a second fluid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two side by side behind one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. It's in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Wibsey
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a driveway off North Road before work, or in the car park outside Wibsey Liberal Club on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode follows.
Unfamiliar cars come next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the tip begins, nothing stops it. Whether it takes place in Brownroyd Hill or the middle of Wibsey, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt in Wibsey or a drive over in Haycliffe Hill. A few seconds, that's all.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles show which goes in which filler right there.
- Can't find it next to the diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual says where.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Low Moor, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across West Yorkshire that is.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, motor off, and never in a rush beside Tennyson Road 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.
- Both under a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Wibsey already?
Short order, then. Top of it: the engine remains unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Texaco, Morrisons or any other — the attendants will usually help push the car away, if you ask. Your own driveway around Wibsey is where it stays.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next junction means the place to leave if you are on the M606, under 3 miles from Wibsey. Mileage matters — a short hop across Wibsey makes a smaller job than driving under 3 miles towards Bradford — so say about how far it went.
What takes place when we arrive around Wibsey
Wherever the car has stopped, whether by Wibsey Primary School, near Wibsey Library or on your own drive, our van comes to it. The replies determine this work and our price, and so we ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. On the phone call itself, you hear the quote — before anything else.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. Before we go, we start the engine and check that it's running properly.
Unstarted vehicles usually need a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Wibsey itself
Wibsey is a suburban area located near Bradford in West Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of 251 metres. Wibsey is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing and is situated close to nearby places such as Brownroyd Hill and Wibsey Slack. Wibsey is approximately 1.9 miles from Bradford city centre and is home to a population of around 7891 residents. Wibsey forms part of the larger Bradford urban area, with the city's amenities and services within easy reach.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Wibsey included
Wibsey is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Wibsey Slack and Slack Side among them, across the BD postcode area. A postcode starting BD6 1 gets the van to you fastest.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. Wherever it sits — near Wibsey Methodist Church, in a lay-by heading to Wibsey Park, at home — that is where it gets cleared. Tricky to explain, like the back of St Paul's church? Close to a county line? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
The short version for Wibsey motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in West Yorkshire.