Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bottom of Woodhouses: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your engine has not run, it's drained and fully purged where the car sits in Bottom of Woodhouses. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels on the roads round Bottom of Woodhouses and Greenside carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
There is a filler for every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
Bottom of Woodhouses: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Medlock Road before work, or in the car park at Nelson Tavern on the way home.
New-to-you cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, carries on. It's seconds, whether out in Woodhouses or right in the heart of Bottom of Woodhouses.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Daisy Nook or a forecourt around Bottom of Woodhouses, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark which goes in each inlet right there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Fairfield's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere in Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and not rushed by Atherton Close on the verge.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Bottom of Woodhouses?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Leave the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where your fuel is pulled from.
The staff at Tesco, Morrisons or any forecourt will normally lend a hand pushing the vehicle clear if asked. Your own drive around Bottom of Woodhouses is the place it stays.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M60 — under a mile out of Bottom of Woodhouses — at the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Bottom of Woodhouses is smaller a job than a trip of under 5 miles to Manchester, so say.
When we get there around Bottom of Woodhouses, what happens?
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside South Failsworth Community Primary School, near Woodhouses Cricket Club or on your own driveway. Those answers decide this work and our price, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run. Nobody heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers head off.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Bottom of Woodhouses and where it is
Bottom of Woodhouses is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Greater Manchester, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 755 residents. Bottom of Woodhouses lies close to the city of Manchester, approximately 4.3 miles away, and is near other local places such as Woodhouses and Littlemoss. Bottom of Woodhouses has an elevation of 98 metres and is located in the North West region of England, about 161.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Bottom of Woodhouses, and Greater Manchester beyond
Holt Lane End and Littlemoss are among the places around Bottom of Woodhouses, a rural hamlet, that the same teams cover, over M postcodes. A postcode starting M35 9 gets the van to you fastest.
Shifting the vehicle is not necessary. The drain takes place right there, whether a driveway, a road by The Holy Family, or a layby on the way to Brookdale Golf Club. Guessing doesn't help behind Littlemoss War Memorial Garden, close to a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check.
The short version for Bottom of Woodhouses motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the car switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Greater Manchester.