Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Crawshawbooth: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, done just where your vehicle stands around Crawshawbooth, is usually what it takes when found before the motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Rush Bed, as well as Crawshawbooth, carry on two liquids; your motor gets only the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Many of motors share a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Crawshawbooth: how it happens
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Albert Road, perhaps at The White Bull on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar vehicles come second, as well. Hire cars, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
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. Whether it happens in Goodshaw or the middle of Crawshawbooth, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Crawshawbooth forecourt or a driveway over in Loveclough, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Accrington? Check with whoever drove it last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere across Lancashire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Water Street, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Crawshawbooth already?
Do not start the engine: that is how the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Tesco, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive in Crawshawbooth.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Leave the M65 — under 5 miles out of Crawshawbooth — at the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Crawshawbooth is less a job than a trip of under 25 miles towards Salford, so tell us.
Our arrival around Crawshawbooth, and what occurs next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Crawshawbooth Primary School, close to Goodshaw Baptist Church or on your own driveway. The replies determine the work and the price, and so we ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly. 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 does not wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the vehicle. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. No money in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Crawshawbooth
Crawshawbooth is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated near the edge of a lake at an elevation of 231 metres. Crawshawbooth lies within commuting distance of Salford, approximately 17 miles away, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Goodshaw and Rake Foot. Crawshawbooth has a population of around 2048 people, predominantly living in terraced housing. Crawshawbooth is located in the North West region of England, about 178 miles from London.
Crawshawbooth and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Crawshawbooth is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Rake Foot and Goodshaw Chapel among them, across the BB postcode area. Quickest of all: give a BB4 8 postcode to our van.
Your car stays where it is. Anywhere it stands — beside St Mary & All Saints, in a layby heading to Old Hall Plantation, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Assuming doesn't help behind St Paul, close to a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for Crawshawbooth drivers
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Lancashire.