Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bastwell: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Around Bastwell, catching it before the engine turns normally means draining and a full flush on the spot. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many current diesels on the roads about Bastwell and Brookhouse carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what cap it needs. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Bastwell: how it happens
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from your car, and letting it run out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Plane Street, or at The Farthings on the way home that evening.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Bastwell or out in Cob Wall.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Bastwell or a driveway over in Royshaw Hill. A few seconds, no more.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says where it lives if the filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Blackburn? Check with whoever drove it last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — anywhere it is across Lancashire — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Maple Street.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found your filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly using its own spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Stage five is off limits.
Bastwell: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor stays unstarted. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Tesco, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Bastwell.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M65, under 3 miles from Bastwell, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Bastwell is less a job than a run of under 10 miles towards Preston, so tell us.
Our arrival in Bastwell, and what takes place next
Anywhere the car has stopped, whether by Daisyfield Primary School, near St Michael & All Angels Worship Centre or at home, our van comes to it. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the replies decide this work and our quote. No one heads out until you have heard the quote by phone.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of it clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. The filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. The motor is started next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before we go.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Bastwell
Bastwell is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 124 metres. Bastwell lies approximately 9 miles from Preston and 183 miles from London, forming part of the larger urban landscape. Bastwell is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, with nearby places including Cob Wall, Daisyfield, and Little Harwood. Bastwell has a population of around 12,059 residents.
Bastwell and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Daisyfield and Little Harwood are among the places around Bastwell, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BB postcodes. Fastest of all: give a BB1 6 postcode to our van.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. Anywhere it sits — beside St Stephen, on a lay-by heading to Woolridge Playing Fields, at home — that's where it is drained. Assuming doesn't help at the back of Khanqah, close to a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
In short, for Bastwell motorists
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever across Lancashire: keep it off then ring 0333 366 0103.