Black Lane: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, keep your ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your car sits around Black Lane, is usually all it needs if caught before the engine runs. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it takes place and the how to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels on the roads around Black Lane and Ainsworth carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the fumes.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Many of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. It's in that gap that the slip lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Black Lane: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from your car, and running out means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Salisbury Road, perhaps outside New Inn on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar motor.
No part stops the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Radcliffe or the middle of Black Lane: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Black Lane forecourt or a driveway out in Little Lever, take a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Kearsley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere it is in Greater Manchester — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Greenbank Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Skip stage five entirely.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Black Lane already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump if you're at a forecourt — the BP, the Esso or anywhere else. On your own drive in Black Lane? Then the car remains put.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next exit means the place to come off when you are on the Kearsley Spur, under 3 miles from Black Lane. A short hop across Black Lane is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 10 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
When our technicians get there around Black Lane, what happens?
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Wesley Methodist Primary School, near Wesley Methodist Church or on your own driveway. Our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those replies determine this work and the price. No one heads out before you've heard the price over the phone.
Then that tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Once the filter has been cleaned — or replaced, if required — clean diesel is added, and finally the car is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs smoothly, all before we go.
If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Black Lane
Black Lane is a suburban area situated near the lakeside in Greater Manchester, with an elevation of around 100 metres. Black Lane lies approximately 6.5 miles from Salford and is close to nearby places such as Radcliffe, Cockey Moor, and Starling. Black Lane has a population of around 6989 people and predominantly features semi-detached housing. Black Lane is located in the North West region of England, about 170.2 miles from London.
Black Lane and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Black Lane shares its vans surrounding areas — Cockey Moor, Starling — right through M postcodes and the wider area beyond. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting M26 4.
The car does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Church of Saint Andrew, a lay-by on the way to Red Bank Field, a drive. Assuming won't help at the back of Neuven Stadium, close to a boundary, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
In short, for Black Lane motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere across Greater Manchester: switch the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.