Anfield: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave the motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where your vehicle stands in Anfield, is normally what it needs if found before the motor runs. The rest of this page covers why it takes place and how to make sure it does not — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Anfield and Tuebrook run, with diesel feeding the engine. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from its own tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side behind one flap. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Anfield: how it takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Watford Road, perhaps at Arkles on the way home that evening.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle 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 pour after it has started. Everton or the heart of Anfield: it is the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Walton or a forecourt in Anfield.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many motors mark what goes in which filler just there.
- The handbook shows where it lives when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check when you pick up a hire car or company car — at Kirkdale's car park, perhaps — not when the light appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Merseyside the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside Priory Road at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — confirm the diesel filler remained closed the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Anfield already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so leave it off. Diluting it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the base rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the Esso, ask the staff to help push your car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Anfield, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. Leave the M62 — under 3 miles out of Anfield — at the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Anfield is smaller a job than a trip of under 3 miles towards Liverpool, and so tell us.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Anfield
Wherever your car came to rest, be it by Anfield Road Primary School, near St Columba's Church or at home, our van travels to it. We ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since those replies settle this work and the price. During the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. Before we leave, our technicians start it and make sure that it is running correctly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Anfield, for a moment
Anfield is a suburban area in Merseyside, located near the city of Liverpool, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Anfield sits on the coastal plain of the North West, at an elevation of around 47 metres, and is close to nearby places such as Everton and Walton on the Hill. Anfield is home to a population of approximately 11471 people, and is situated about 1.9 miles from Liverpool city centre. Anfield has a diverse range of community facilities and services, reflecting its position as a residential area within the larger Liverpool urban area.
AdBlue drains in Anfield and across Merseyside
Being a residential suburb, Anfield has the same vans as surrounding areas — Walton on the Hill, Kirkdale — right across L postcodes and the wider area around them. Quote a postcode beginning L4 2, and our van arrives quickest.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to a street just off the centre, a lay-by on the way to Stanley Park, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Hillsborough Memorial.
Anfield drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Merseyside.