Booth Fold: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out right where your car sits in Booth Fold, is normally all it takes when caught before your engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many modern diesels on the roads about Booth Fold and Newchurch carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from its own tank.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two together behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
Booth Fold: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Booth Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Jolly Sailor.
New-to-you cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Booth Fold or out in Hey Head.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Piercy or a forecourt around Booth Fold.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Walsden? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Lancashire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Gaghills Terrace.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Don't carry on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Booth Fold already?
Do not start your motor: that's how the short order of things begins. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Texaco, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump. If you're on your own drive around Booth Fold, leave it where it stands.
Already started? Pull over when it is sensible, then switch off. Booth Fold sits under 5 miles from the M66; there, take the next exit. A short hop across Booth Fold is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we turn up in Booth Fold, what takes place?
Outside Waterfoot Primary School, near St Nicholas with St John & St Michael or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run, since those replies settle this work and the quote. The price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. Your engine is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our engineers go.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job after arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Booth Fold
Booth Fold is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Lancashire, with an elevation of 207 metres. Booth Fold lies near several nearby places, including Hey Head, Waterfoot, and Siss Clough, and is located approximately 14.9 miles from Manchester. Booth Fold is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, which reflects the local architectural style. Booth Fold is also relatively distant from London, at around 175.4 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Lancashire, Booth Fold included
Booth Fold is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Waterfoot and Siss Clough among them, across the BB postcode area. Give a postcode beginning BB4 9, and the van gets there quickest.
No need to shift the car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Bamboo Theatre, a lay-by on the way to Edgeside Park, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Anne, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Booth Fold drivers: the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Lancashire.