Far Moor: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Pause here for a moment when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out just where your car stands around Far Moor, is usually what it takes when caught before the engine runs. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels near Far Moor and Orrell Post carry, with diesel for the engine. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Every tank comes with a filler of its own. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Far Moor
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up together.
On a drive off Croftlands before work, or in the car park at Running Horses on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and after the pour starts, nothing halts it. Whether it occurs in Higher End or the middle of Far Moor, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Brownlow or a forecourt in Far Moor.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a rental or company car — from Orrell's car park, say — not when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere around Greater Manchester, follow this routine.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside St James Road on the verge.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Finish once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the own spout.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Do not go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Far Moor already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Esso, Texaco or any other — the staff will usually help push the car away, when you ask. Your own drive around Far Moor is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. Far Moor sits under a mile from the M58; there, take the next junction. A short hop across Far Moor is a smaller job than a run towards Liverpool, under 15 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What takes place when our engineers turn up in Far Moor
The van comes to the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own drive, near St Luke's Church, or by Orrell Newfold Community Primary School. Both the work and our quote depend on three answers — which liquid, what quantity, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. On the call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Draining the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Then our technicians fire it up and check it runs correctly before leaving.
If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine 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. It's worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Far Moor and where it is
Far Moor is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 106 metres. Far Moor lies near several neighbouring communities, including Higher End, Tontine, and Longshaw, and is located approximately 13.5 miles from Liverpool. Far Moor has a population of around 4231 residents, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Far Moor is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 176.9 miles.
AdBlue drains around Far Moor, and Greater Manchester beyond
Far Moor is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Tontine and Longshaw among them, across the WN postcode area. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WN5 7.
Your car doesn't need to move. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Upholland High School Playing Field, a side street close to Memorial to Ellen Higginbottom: our engineers drain it where it sits. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Living Faith Church.
The short version for Far Moor drivers
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Greater Manchester.