Egerton Park: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down for now, leave the ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Egerton Park. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads around Egerton Park and Roe Green carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler on each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on every forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler to use. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around Egerton Park?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Longley Drive before work, or in the car park at The White Horse on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: 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 pour after it has started. It takes seconds, be it out in Broad Oak or bang in the centre of Egerton Park.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Moorside or a forecourt in Egerton Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Moorside? Check with the person who drove the car last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light comes on — anywhere it is around Greater Manchester — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Broad Oak Park, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Leave out step five altogether.
Egerton Park: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
At a forecourt — Shell, Esso or any other — the attendants will usually help push the vehicle clear, if you ask. Your own drive in Egerton Park is the place it should stay.
Already run? Pull over once it's sensible, then turn off. On the M60, under a mile from Egerton Park, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Egerton Park is less work than a run of under 5 miles to Salford, so say.
What occurs when we turn up around Egerton Park
Wherever your car came to rest, be it by Broadoak Primary School, near Roe Green Church or at home, our van comes to it. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. Nobody sets off before you've had the price over the phone.
Then the tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. 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. Testing comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Next we fire it up and check it runs properly before we leave.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Egerton Park itself
Egerton Park is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Irwell and close to the city of Salford. Egerton Park has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most common, and it is located near other residential areas such as Broad Oak and Broadoak Park. Egerton Park sits at an elevation of 53 metres, relatively low compared to other parts of the region, and it is about 3.4 miles from Salford city centre. Egerton Park is part of the larger North West England region, about 167 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Egerton Park and across Greater Manchester
Broadoak Park and Hazelhurst are among the places near Egerton Park, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout M postcodes. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting M28 2.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. The drain happens right there, be it a driveway, a road near Holy Rood, or a layby on the way to Worsley Woods. Awkward to pin down, like the back of 3rd Duke of Bridgewater's monument? By a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
In short, for Egerton Park people
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Greater Manchester.