AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wood End: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done right where your car sits in Wood End, is usually what it takes when caught before your engine runs. Here in advance? In that case what follows explains why it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels in Windhill, like those in Wood End, carry on two liquids; your engine takes just your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. 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 each filling station call-out, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what filler it needs. It's in the gap that the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wood End: how it occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Thackley Old Road before work, or in the car park outside The Woodend on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars are second, too. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Wood End or out in Baildon Holmes.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Wood End or a drive over in Low Ash. Seconds, no more.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook shows which it is when the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Shipley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
On the day the light appears — wherever you are across West Yorkshire — a routine to use.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Leeds Road.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through its built-in spout.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel cap stayed shut throughout. After that, start the car.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Wood End already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
The staff at Texaco, BP or any forecourt will usually help to push the car away if asked. Your own drive around Wood End is where it stays.
Already run? Pull over once it is sensible, then switch off. The next junction is the place to come off when you are on the M606, under 5 miles from Wood End. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Wood End makes a smaller job than driving under 5 miles to Bradford — so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when we turn up around Wood End
Wherever your car came to rest, be it by Christ Church Church of England Academy, near Christchurch, Windhill or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Which liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask because those answers decide both work and price. No one heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by 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 with AdBlue than with petrol. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. After that our technicians start the engine and check it runs smoothly before leaving.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run need roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Wood End itself
Wood End is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with an elevation of 84 metres and a population of around 5042 residents. Wood End is located approximately 3.1 miles from Bradford and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Wood End sits near other local places such as Baildon Holmes and Baildon Wood Bottom, and is part of the larger urban landscape surrounding Bradford. Wood End is also relatively distant from London, at around 174.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Wood End and across West Yorkshire
Wood End is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Baildon Wood Bottom and West Royd among them, across the BD postcode area. A postcode starting BD18 1 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move the car. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road by Windhill Community Centre, or a lay-by on the way to Windhill Community Park. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Dog in the Dinghy, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Wood End motorists: the short version
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in West Yorkshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.