Boots Green: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Pause reading a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly rinsed where your vehicle sits around Boots Green. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that is how many newer diesels around Boots Green and Rudheath Woods run, with diesel feeding the engine. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Many of cars have a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled at every filling station visit, week in, week out. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Boots Green: how it takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Boots Green before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old car — since a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It's a few seconds, be it out in Allostock or right in the centre of Boots Green.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Boots Green forecourt or a driveway over in Smithy Green, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark what belongs in each inlet just there.
- Cannot see it beside your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Goostrey's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever across Cheshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine stopped, and not rushed by Booth Bed Lane at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found the filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through its own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Leave out step five altogether.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Boots Green already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting your engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, right where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Texaco, Esso or any other — the staff will usually help push the vehicle away, if you ask. On your own drive around Boots Green? So the car stays put.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M6, under 3 miles from Boots Green, that means the next junction. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Boots Green is a smaller job than driving under 25 miles to Salford — so say about how far it went.
When we turn up around Boots Green, what occurs?
Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Lower Peover CofE Primary School, beside Goostrey Playing Fields or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, because those answers settle the work and our quote. On the call itself, you are told the quote — before dispatch.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. 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. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run take roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. Nothing in advance; 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. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Boots Green itself
Boots Green is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Cheshire, with an elevation of 53 metres. Boots Green lies near the villages of Allostock and Lower Peover, and is close to Swan Green. Boots Green is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is located approximately 16 miles from Salford. Boots Green is a relatively small community, with a population of around 605 people.
AdBlue drains round Boots Green, and Cheshire beyond
Boots Green is a rural hamlet, and our teams that cover it also work the places around it, Swan Green and Lower Peover among them, across the WA postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WA16 9.
Your car stays put. The drain happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a road by St. Lawrence, or a lay-by towards Newplatt Wood. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Peover Hall, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Boots Green drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Cheshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.