How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Fern Grove
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor has not run, it's emptied and fully cleaned where the vehicle is in Fern Grove. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of newer diesels around Heap Bridge, as well as Fern Grove, run on two fluids; the motor takes just the diesel. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
There is a filler for every tank. Many of motors have a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. Far less often, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Fern Grove
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Rochdale Old Road before work, or in the car park at The Spotted Cow on the way home.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old motor — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
No part halts the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Fern Grove or out in Topping Fold.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt around Fern Grove or a driveway out in Chesham. Seconds, that's all.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- On plenty of vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Castleton? Check with the person who drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across Greater Manchester, use this routine.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Woodgate Hill Road.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have found the filler and read the cap.
- Both under one flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler is still closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Fern Grove?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the EG On the Move or the Texaco, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Fern Grove, leave it where it is.
When the engine has been run already, stop somewhere safe then turn the car off. On the M66, under a mile from Fern Grove, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Fern Grove is smaller a job than a trip of under 10 miles to Salford, and so say.
What takes place when we turn up in Fern Grove
Anywhere the car has stopped, whether by Fairfield Community Primary School, beside Chesham Fold Community Centre or on your own drive, our van travels to it. What fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those answers set the work and quote. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out by itself. That is why it counts more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it's running smoothly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly need a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Fern Grove, briefly
Fern Grove is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 111 metres. Fern Grove lies approximately 8 miles from Salford and is surrounded by other local places such as Topping Fold and Woodgate Hill. Fern Grove has a population of around 6191 people and is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Fern Grove is also relatively distant from London, being around 170 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Fern Grove included
Over BL postcodes, the teams that cover Fern Grove — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Woodgate Hill and Free Town included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BL9 7.
The vehicle stays put. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Holebottom Cemetery Memorial Garden, a side street near St George: our engineers drain the car where it is. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Thomas, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In short, for Fern Grove people
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Greater Manchester.