AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Yorkley Slade: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Keep the motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, when the engine hasn't turned, it is emptied and fully purged where your vehicle is around Yorkley Slade. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Yorkley Slade and Viney Hill run, with diesel for your motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh it, from its own tank.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel goes in at every filling station visit, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what cap it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Yorkley Slade: how it takes place
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Tylers Way before work, or in the car park outside Nags Head on the way home.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: an unfamiliar car.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. Yorkley or the middle of Yorkley Slade: it is the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Yorkley Slade or a drive over in Pillowell. A few seconds, no more.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook shows where it lives when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Lydney, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around Gloucestershire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Slade Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Yorkley Slade?
Brief order, then. First: the motor stays off. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Central Garage or the Co-op, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway around Yorkley Slade, leave the car where it is.
Already started? Pull over when it's safe, then switch off. Leave the M5 — under 10 miles out of Yorkley Slade — at the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Gloucester, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Yorkley Slade.
Yorkley Slade: what occurs when our engineers arrive
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, whether outside Yorkley Primary School, beside Pillowell Village Hall or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Which liquid got in, the amount, and whether it ran: we ask since the replies decide both work and quote. Nobody heads out until you've had our quote by phone.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after your tank is drained. 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 counts more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your car. Before we go, we fire it up and check that it is running properly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Yorkley Slade, briefly
Yorkley Slade is a village in Gloucestershire, situated near the Welsh border and the Forest of Dean, with Yorkley Slade being one of the higher points in the area at 186 metres. Yorkley Slade has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant, and Yorkley Slade is close to nearby villages such as Yorkley and Oldcroft. Yorkley Slade is located near the city of Gloucester, which is 13.7 miles away, and Yorkley Slade is also within a short distance of Neds Top.
AdBlue drains round Yorkley Slade, and Gloucestershire beyond
Yorkley Slade is a coastal village, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Oldcroft and Neds Top among them, across the GL postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning GL15 4, and the van arrives quickest.
Shifting the vehicle isn't needed. We drain it where it is — a side street close to All Saints, a lay-by on the way to Cockshoot Wood, a drive. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Exposed Roman Road, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Yorkley Slade people, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Gloucestershire.