Egerton Park: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle sits in Egerton Park, is normally what it needs when found before your engine runs. The rest of this page explains why it happens and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that's what many newer diesels near Egerton Park and Woodhey carry, with diesel for your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for the two, while others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which filler it needs. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Egerton Park
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Egerton Park, perhaps at The Rock Villa on the way home that evening.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, keeps on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Egerton Park or out in Dacre Hill.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Tranmere or a forecourt around Egerton Park.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the flap and check for a label — plenty of cars show what goes in which filler just there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Rock Ferry.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Merseyside that is.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, engine off, and not in a rush beside Cavendish Drive on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Egerton Park?
Short order, then. Top of that: the motor stays off. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Texaco, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in Egerton Park, leave the vehicle where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. On the M53, under 3 miles from Egerton Park, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Egerton Park is less a job than a run of under 5 miles towards Liverpool, and so tell us.
What occurs when our engineers turn up in Egerton Park
Wherever the car came to rest, be it outside Bedford Drive Primary School, beside St Paul's Church or at home, the van comes to it. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — which liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so our engineers ask. Nobody sets off before you've heard the quote over the phone.
The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, after the tank is cleared. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before we leave, our technicians start the engine and check that it is running correctly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Egerton Park
Egerton Park is a suburban area located on the coast of Merseyside, near the city of Liverpool. Egerton Park sits at an elevation of 41 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Egerton Park is close to other nearby places such as Dacre Hill, Rock Ferry, and Devonshire Park, and is approximately 3.3 miles from Liverpool. Egerton Park has a population of around 9293 people.
AdBlue drains round Egerton Park, and Merseyside beyond
Over CH postcodes, our vans that cover Egerton Park — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Devonshire Park and Rock Ferry included. Quote a postcode beginning CH42 4, and our van gets there quickest.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. We drain it where it is — a side street near St Anne's Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Victoria Park, a driveway. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Highfield Church, ring and ask instead of guessing.
For Egerton Park people, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Merseyside, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.