Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Barlow Moor: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Barlow Moor. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to avoid it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel feeds the engine — but plenty of current diesels driven round Barlow Moor and Northenden hold another liquid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Barlow Moor: how it occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Barlow Hall Road, or on the way home in the car park at Strange brew.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. Whether it takes place in Chorlton-cum-Hardy or the middle of Barlow Moor, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Withington or a forecourt in Barlow Moor, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by your 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 collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Burnage.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, motor off, and not in a rush beside Hallows Avenue on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Barlow Moor?
Don't start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Leave your ignition off as well, because on many diesels it by itself starts your pump. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Asda, Shell or any other — the staff will normally help roll the vehicle clear, when you ask. On your own drive in Barlow Moor? So the vehicle stays put.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M60 — under a mile out of Barlow Moor — at the first exit. A short hop across Barlow Moor is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 5 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
When our engineers arrive in Barlow Moor, what occurs?
By Barlow Hall Primary School, near Barlow Moor Community Library or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Which fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask since the replies set both work and quote. You get that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Barlow Moor itself
Barlow Moor is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the lakes and waterways of the Mersey Valley. Barlow Moor sits at an elevation of 34 metres, close to the city of Manchester and neighbouring districts like Chorlton-cum-Hardy and West Didsbury. Barlow Moor has a population of around 5525 people, living in predominantly semi-detached housing. Barlow Moor is located approximately 3.7 miles from Manchester city centre, making it a convenient residential area.
AdBlue drains around Barlow Moor, and Greater Manchester beyond
West Didsbury and Northern Moor are among the towns near Barlow Moor, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over M postcodes. A postcode starting M21 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The car does not need to move. Draining happens right there, be it a driveway, a street by Kagyu Ling Buddhist Centre, or a layby towards Chorlton Water Park. Assuming won't help at the back of Chorlton Sports & Social Club, on a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Barlow Moor motorists
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep it switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Greater Manchester.