AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Droylsden: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
Keep the motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. In Droylsden, finding it before the motor runs usually means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it does not — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single fluid but two: that is what many newer diesels near Droylsden and Openshaw carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both side by side behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the slip lives.
Droylsden: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
Carelessness rarely causes it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Greenside Lane, perhaps outside Kings Head on the way home that evening.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once started, carries on. Greenside or the middle of Droylsden: it is the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Littlemoss or a forecourt in Droylsden.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you pick up a rental or company car — at Fairfield's car park, say — rather than once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever in Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Turn off after you park — level ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside Market Street on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Step five is out.
Droylsden: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Don't switch your 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 the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the BP, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own driveway around Droylsden, leave the car where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. The next junction means where to come off when you are on the M60, under a mile from Droylsden. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Droylsden is less a job than a run of under 5 miles towards Manchester, so say.
What occurs when our engineers get there in Droylsden
Outside St Mary's CofE Primary School, near Droylsden Football Club or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. The answers settle the work and our quote, so our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run. That price is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, after that tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Once the filter has been cleaned — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally your car is tested. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and confirm that it's running correctly.
If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe 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 both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Droylsden and where it is
Droylsden is a town in Greater Manchester, situated on the River Tame and close to the city of Manchester. Droylsden has a mix of residential and industrial areas, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type. Droylsden sits at an elevation of around 100 metres, near the communities of Greenside, Audenshaw, and Bottom of Woodhouses. Droylsden is located approximately 160 miles northwest of London, making it a commuter town with easy access to the nearby city.
AdBlue drains around Droylsden and across Greater Manchester
Droylsden is a riverside town, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Audenshaw and Bottom of Woodhouses among them, across the M postcode area. A postcode starting M43 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The car stays where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to St Mary, a lay-by on the way to Sunnybank Park, a drive. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Harry Pollitt, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for Droylsden drivers
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, anywhere around Greater Manchester: keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.