Brockhall Village: 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 a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Brockhall Village. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels on the roads around Brockhall Village and Langho carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Brockhall Village: how it occurs
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Gleneagles Drive, or on the way home in the car park outside Black Bull.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a strange motor.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Old Langho or right in the heart of Brockhall Village.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Nethertown or a forecourt in Brockhall Village.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook shows where it lives if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Langho? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Lancashire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Woodlands, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel filler remained shut throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Brockhall Village?
Short list, then. Top of that: the engine remains off. Leave your ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
The attendants at Gulf, Asda or another forecourt will usually lend a hand pushing the vehicle clear if you ask. If you are on your own drive in Brockhall Village, leave it where it is.
Already started? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. Come off the M65 — under 5 miles out of Brockhall Village — at the first exit. A short hop across Brockhall Village is a smaller job than a run towards Preston, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Brockhall Village, and what occurs next
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Langho and Billington St Leonards Church of England Primary School, near Hacking Hall or on your own driveway. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and whether it has run — so we ask. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then that tank is drained and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. Once the fuel filter has been flushed — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Brockhall Village
Brockhall Village is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Lancashire, with a relatively low elevation of 61 metres. Brockhall Village lies near several smaller communities, including Old Langho, Dinckley, and Hurst Green, and is approximately 10.9 miles from Preston. Brockhall Village has a population of around 1336 people, predominantly living in detached housing. Brockhall Village is located in the North West region of England, about 187.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Brockhall Village, and Lancashire beyond
As a residential suburb, Brockhall Village has the same vans as surrounding areas — Dinckley, Hurst Green — right through BB postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Fastest of all: quote a BB6 8 postcode to our van.
The vehicle remains where it is. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Crow Wood, a side street close to Old St Leonard's Church: our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Guessing won't help at the back of tumulus, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
For Brockhall Village people, the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Lancashire.