Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burnden: Why It Occurs
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Around Burnden, catching it before the engine turns usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Reading before the event? In that case the rest explains how it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Burnden and Harper Green carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place both together behind one flap. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less regularly. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
Burnden: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Mayfield Avenue before work, or in the car park at The Volunteer on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as easily, and once the tip starts, no part halts it. Whether it happens in Great Lever or the middle of Burnden, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Burnden forecourt or a drive out in Moses Gate, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Moses Gate? Check with the person who drove the car last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Manchester Road, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have found the filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both share a flap, confirm it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never came off.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Burnden already?
Do not start your motor: that is where the short order of things begins. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base instead of mixing — and that is where your fuel is sucked from.
The attendants at EG On the Move, Shell or another forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle away when asked. At home in Burnden? So your car stays put.
Already started? Pull over when it is safe, then turn off. On the St. Peter's Way, under 3 miles from Burnden, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Burnden is a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Salford — so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when our technicians get there in Burnden
Anywhere your car came to rest, be it outside St Michael's CofE Primary School, Great Lever, near St Michael with St Bartholomew or at home, our van comes to it. Which fluid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: our technicians ask since those answers decide both work and price. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then rinsed thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes away by itself. That is why it matters more. After the filter is flushed — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. Before leaving, our technicians start it and make sure that it is running smoothly.
If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Burnden
Burnden is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the lakeside and approximately 91 metres above sea level. Burnden lies close to several nearby places, including Great Lever, Rose Hill, and Springfield, and is around 7.5 miles from the city of Salford. Burnden has a population of around 6275 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing.
AdBlue drains round Burnden, and Greater Manchester beyond
As a residential suburb, Burnden has the same vans as surrounding areas — Rose Hill, Springfield — right through BL postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BL3 2.
Moving the vehicle isn't needed. Draining happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a street by Rose Hill United Reformed Church, or a layby on the way to Great Lever Park. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Bolton Indian Sports Club, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Burnden drivers, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Greater Manchester.