AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Davenport Green: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the car sits in Davenport Green, is normally what it takes when found before the motor runs. Here in advance? Then what follows covers how it comes about and what to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Davenport Green and Alderley Edge run, with diesel for the engine. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean them, from its own tank.
There is a filler for every tank. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the error lives.
Davenport Green: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Meadow Way, perhaps at Horse and Jockey on the way home that evening.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after begun, keeps on. Whether it takes place in Fulshaw Park or the middle of Davenport Green, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Davenport Green or a drive out in Wilmslow. Seconds, no more.
- 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.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles mark what belongs in which inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Alderley Edge, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere across Cheshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Welton Grove on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel filler remained closed the whole time. Only then, start the car.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
Davenport Green: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Texaco, Asda Express or another — the attendants will normally help roll the car away, if you ask. Your own driveway in Davenport Green is the place it stays.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M56, under 5 miles from Davenport Green, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Manchester, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Davenport Green.
When our engineers turn up in Davenport Green, what occurs?
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside Ashdene Primary School, near Croftside Tennis Club or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Both the work and our price rest on three replies — what liquid, which quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. Nobody heads out before you've had the quote over the phone.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once that tank is drained. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears away unaided, however long it sits. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house 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 policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Davenport Green itself
Davenport Green is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated on the riverside with an elevation of 76 metres. Davenport Green lies near several local parks, including Fulshaw Park and Harden Park, and is close to the Row-of-trees area. Davenport Green is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is located approximately 11 miles from Manchester. Davenport Green is a relatively small community, with a population of around 4130 residents.
AdBlue drains across Cheshire, Davenport Green included
As a residential suburb, Davenport Green has the same vans as surrounding places — Row-of-trees, Harden Park — right through SK postcodes and the wider area around them. Quote a postcode that starts SK9 6, and the van gets there quickest.
Your car does not need to shift. Wherever it sits — near Parish Church of St John, Lindow, on a layby heading to Lindow Cricket Club, on a drive — that is where it is drained. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Lindow Lawn Tennis Club? By a border? Checking beats guessing, so ring.
The short version for Davenport Green people
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Cheshire.