Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wildmanbridge: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Around Wildmanbridge, catching it before your motor turns normally means draining and a full flush where it stands. Here in advance? In that case the rest covers why it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Wildmanbridge and Chapel carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler for each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every forecourt visit, again and again. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Wildmanbridge: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Waterlands Road before work, or in the car park at Auld Store bar on the way home.
Unfamiliar vehicles come second, too. Hire cars, new cars and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, carries on. It's a few seconds, be it out in Law or bang in the centre of Wildmanbridge.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Waterloo or a forecourt around Wildmanbridge, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — many motors mark which goes in which filler just there.
- The handbook says which it is when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The previous driver knows. Ask as you collect a rental or fleet car — at Carluke's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are in South Lanarkshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and not rushed by Wildman Road at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- The two under one flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Discover during the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Never carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Wildmanbridge?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the JET or the BP, ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Wildmanbridge.
Already run? Pull over once it's safe, then turn off. On the M74, under 5 miles from Wildmanbridge, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Wildmanbridge is less a job than a trip of under 25 miles towards Glasgow, and so say.
When our engineers turn up in Wildmanbridge, what occurs?
Anywhere your car has stopped, be it by the local primary school, beside South Church Memorial or at home, our van travels to it. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so we ask. The price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, our engineers start the car and check that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our technicians arrive, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Wildmanbridge itself
Wildmanbridge is a village in South Lanarkshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 157 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Wildmanbridge lies near the villages of Law, Bogside, and Law Hill, and is approximately 16 miles from Glasgow. Wildmanbridge has a population of around 644 residents, who enjoy the scenic views of the surrounding countryside. Wildmanbridge is also relatively distant from major cities like London, being around 331 miles away.
Wildmanbridge and South Lanarkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Bogside and Law Hill are among the towns near Wildmanbridge, a village, that the same teams cover, throughout ML postcodes. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting ML8 5.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits — beside Law Parish Church, on a layby en route to Scott Drive Play Park, at home — that is where it is emptied. Awkward to explain, like the back of Law Gospel Hall? By a county line? Asking is better than guessing, so phone.
In short, for Wildmanbridge drivers
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever in South Lanarkshire: switch it off and ring 0333 366 0103.