Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Woolgreaves: Why It Occurs
Pause reading a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your engine has not turned, it is drained and fully flushed where your vehicle sits around Woolgreaves. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers why it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many current diesels on the roads about Woolgreaves and Milnthorpe carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together under one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Woolgreaves?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Woolgreaves Avenue, or on the way home in the car park outside The Star Inn.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Stand Bridge or the middle of Woolgreaves: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Hill Top or a forecourt around Woolgreaves.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Sandal & Agbrigg, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever across West Yorkshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Woolgreaves Drive.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- The two behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Woolgreaves?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you're at a forecourt — the JET, the Asda or anywhere else. On your own drive in Woolgreaves? Then the car stays put.
Already started? Stop once it is sensible, then turn off. Woolgreaves lies under 3 miles from the M1; on it, use the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Woolgreaves is less work than a trip of under 3 miles to Wakefield, so say.
Our arrival around Woolgreaves, and what happens next
By Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School, close to St Peters & St Pauls Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, since the replies settle the work and our price. You hear that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out by itself. That is why it counts more. The filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. After that we start the car and confirm it runs smoothly before we leave.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It's worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Woolgreaves
Woolgreaves is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Yorkshire, with a mix of housing types but predominantly detached homes. Woolgreaves sits at an elevation of 42 metres, close to the city of Wakefield and near other local places such as Stand Bridge and Pledwick. Woolgreaves has a population of around 3046 residents and is located approximately 2.6 miles from Wakefield city centre. Woolgreaves is also about 158.5 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Woolgreaves included
Throughout WF postcodes, our vans covering Woolgreaves — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Woodthorpe and Pledwick included. Quote a postcode that starts WF2 6, and the van arrives quickest.
Your car does not need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street near War Memorial, a lay-by on the way to Sandal RUFC, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Lakeside Methodist Cenre? Close to a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
Woolgreaves drivers: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across West Yorkshire.