Astbury Marsh: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Astbury Marsh, catching it before your motor runs usually means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels in Brownlow, as well as Astbury Marsh, carry on two liquids; the motor gets just the diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
There is a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
Astbury Marsh: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your 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 driveway off Newcastle Road before work, or in the car park at Heath Farm on the way home.
Unfamiliar vehicles come next, as well. Rentals, new cars and company motors place their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap 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, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Whether it occurs in West Heath or the middle of Astbury Marsh, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Brownlow Heath or a forecourt in Astbury Marsh, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- On many motors, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Congleton? Check with whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere across Cheshire, use this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Padgbury Close.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- The two under a single flap? Then confirm the cap on the diesel filler stays shut before lifting the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — confirm your diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Astbury Marsh?
Brief list, then. Top of that: your engine remains unstarted. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the car on. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — BP, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help roll your car away, when you ask. If you are on your own drive in Astbury Marsh, leave it where it sits.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the Sandbach Services Southbound — under 5 miles out of Astbury Marsh — at the next junction. Mileage matters — a short hop across Astbury Marsh makes a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Stoke-on-Trent — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers get there around Astbury Marsh
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside The Quinta Primary School, close to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or on your own drive. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — what fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. On the call itself, you hear our price — before anything else.
Then your tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes away on its own, however long it is left. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. We do not leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our technicians get there, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Astbury Marsh and where it is
Astbury Marsh is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Cheshire, with a mix of detached housing and open spaces. Astbury Marsh sits at an elevation of 98 metres, close to the nearby settlements of West Heath and Astbury. Astbury Marsh is located near Congleton and is within commuting distance of Stoke-on-Trent, which is approximately 9.7 miles away. Astbury Marsh is also around 144.6 miles from London, making it a relatively accessible location in the North West region.
AdBlue drains around Astbury Marsh and across Cheshire
Astbury and Congleton are among the places around Astbury Marsh, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over CW postcodes. A postcode starting CW12 4 gets our van to you fastest.
The car does not need to shift. The drain happens on the spot, be it a drive, a road near Astbury Water Sports, or a lay-by towards Astbury Mere Country Park. Assuming won't help at the back of Astbury Village Hall, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
In short, for Astbury Marsh drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Cheshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.