Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ashton Bank: Why It Happens
Keep your engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Around Ashton Bank, catching it before the motor turns normally leaves draining and a full flush on the spot. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel feeds the engine — yet many current diesels driven around Ashton Bank and Riverside Docklands carry a second liquid too. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Many of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what filler to use. The error lives in that gap.
Ashton Bank: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Whinfield Lane before work, or in the car park outside Pig and Whistle on the way home.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a strange motor.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and once the pour begins, no part halts it. It's a few seconds, be it out in Larches or bang in the heart of Ashton Bank.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Ingol or a forecourt around Ashton Bank.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of motors, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Preston.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lancashire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Larches Lane, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — confirm the diesel filler 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. Don't go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Ashton Bank already?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the engine remains unstarted. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of the tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — the nearest petrol station, BP or another — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. At home in Ashton Bank? So the vehicle remains where it is.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M55 — under 3 miles out of Ashton Bank — at the next exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Ashton Bank makes a smaller job than heading under 3 miles towards Preston — so say about how far it went.
When our technicians get there around Ashton Bank, what happens?
By Lea Community Primary School, close to Our Lady & St Bernard's Catholic Club or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. The replies settle the work and the quote, so our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run. Nobody sets off until you've had the quote over the phone.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once your tank is cleared. 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 that matters more here than with petrol. After the filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle gets tested. The motor is started next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our technicians get there, provided the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours.
About Ashton Bank
Ashton Bank is a suburban area located on the riverside in Lancashire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 4480 residents. Ashton Bank sits near the city of Preston, approximately 2.1 miles away, and is close to nearby places such as Larches and Ashton-on-Ribble. Ashton Bank is positioned at a relatively low elevation of 22 metres above sea level, in a region known for its scenic riverside settings. Ashton Bank is also situated about 190.8 miles northwest of London, making it a part of the wider North West England region.
AdBlue drains in Ashton Bank and across Lancashire
Ashton-on-Ribble and Lea are among the towns near Ashton Bank, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over PR postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a PR2 1 postcode to our van.
There's no need to move your car. Draining happens right there, whether a driveway, a road by Freedomcentre Church, or a lay-by on the way to Whinfield Wood. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Nelson Buoy.
Ashton Bank drivers: the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Lancashire.