Astley Bridge: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause reading a minute when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Astley Bridge. Here before the event? Then the rest covers how it happens and how to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Not one fluid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels around Astley Bridge and Back o th Bank run, with diesel for your engine. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Astley Bridge?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and running dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Primrose Street, perhaps outside The Bay Mare on the way home after work.
Unfamiliar motors are next, too. Rentals, new motors and company motors put their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as easily, and after the tip starts, no part stops it. Whether it takes place in Sharples or the middle of Astley Bridge, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Astley Bridge or a drive over in Toppings. A few seconds, no more.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of cars show what belongs in which inlet just there.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook will say which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Hall i' th' Wood.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere across Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, engine stopped, and never in a rush beside Hesketh Avenue at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it works.
- The two under a single flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still shut before raising the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Do not go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Astley Bridge already?
Do not start the engine: that's how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
Ask the staff to help push the car clear of the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Asda, the BP or anywhere else. At home around Astley Bridge? Then the vehicle stays put.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M61, under 5 miles from Astley Bridge, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Astley Bridge is smaller a job than a run of under 15 miles to Salford, so tell us.
When we turn up in Astley Bridge, what takes place?
Our van reaches the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near Masjid-e-Salaam, or by Holy Infant and St Anthony RC Primary School. What liquid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask because those replies decide both work and quote. The price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears away unaided, however long it sits. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Next our engineers start the engine and check it runs smoothly before we go.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Astley Bridge
Astley Bridge is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of around 130 metres. Astley Bridge is located near the neighbouring areas of Sharples, Eagley Bank, and Eagley, and is approximately 10 miles from Salford. Astley Bridge has a population of around 8269 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Astley Bridge is also relatively distant from London, at around 174 miles away.
Astley Bridge and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Astley Bridge shares its vans nearby areas — Eagley Bank, Eagley — all the way across BL postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting BL1 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. Wherever it stands — beside Drummond Street Community Centre, in a layby en route to Sharples Park, at home — that is where it gets cleared. Guessing won't help at the back of Holy Infant and St Anthony's Parish Church, close to a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
In short, for Astley Bridge drivers
Always, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103.