Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Fazakerley: Why It Occurs
Keep your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where the car stands in Fazakerley, is normally all it needs when caught before the engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels near Fazakerley and Warbreck Park run, with diesel feeding the engine. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh it, from its own tank.
There is a filler on each tank. Many of cars share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Fazakerley: how it happens
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Higher Lane, or on the way home in the car park at The Prince George.
Unfamiliar motors are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company cars place their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and after the tip starts, nothing stops it. Hartleys Village or the middle of Fazakerley: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Fazakerley or a driveway over in Gillmoss. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to the diesel inlet? Then look beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light comes on, wherever in Merseyside, use this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Brookfield Drive.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you have located your filler and read it.
- The two under a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Finish when your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through the own spout.
- Close the cap, and look once more — confirm your diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start your car.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Never go on to step five.
Fazakerley: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief order, then. Top of it: your motor remains unstarted. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — BP, EG On the Move or another — the staff will normally help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Fazakerley.
Already started? Stop when it's safe, then turn off. Come off the M57 — under 3 miles out of Fazakerley — at the first junction. A short hop across Fazakerley is a smaller job than a run towards Liverpool, under 5 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Fazakerley, and what occurs next
Our van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near Fazakerley Methodist Church, or outside Our Lady and St Philomena's Catholic Primary School. Which liquid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since those replies decide both work and quote. The price comes on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. A test is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. After that our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs smoothly before we leave.
If your engine hasn't run, most 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 at night. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. While we travel, take a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Fazakerley and where it is
Fazakerley is a suburban area in Merseyside, situated near the River Alt and close to the city of Liverpool. Fazakerley sits at an elevation of 28 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Fazakerley is located near several local landmarks, including Hartleys Village and Copple House, and is home to a number of pubs, such as the Dog and Gun. Fazakerley has a population of approximately 1772 residents, who enjoy easy access to Liverpool, just 3.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Fazakerley, and Merseyside beyond
Throughout L postcodes, the teams covering Fazakerley — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Dog and Gun and Copple House included. Quickest of all: quote a L9 7 postcode for our van.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to St Philomena's Roman Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Bluebell Woods, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Emmanuel Church.
Fazakerley motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Merseyside, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — and so leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.