AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Great Marton Moss: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Pause reading for a moment when your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Great Marton Moss, catching it before the motor runs usually means a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Reading in advance? Then the rest covers why it comes about and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels around Marton Fold, like those in Great Marton Moss, run on two fluids; the engine gets just the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
There's a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place around Great Marton Moss?
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off School Road before work, or in the car park at The Shovels on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Walkers Hill or bang in the centre of Great Marton Moss.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, at a forecourt around Great Marton Moss or a driveway out in Mereside. Seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you pick up a rental or fleet car — from Squires Gate's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Lancashire that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Midgeland Road.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read the cap.
- The two under one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Discover at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Skip step five altogether.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Great Marton Moss?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is sucked from.
At a forecourt — Morrisons, Tesco or any other — the attendants will usually help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. Your own driveway in Great Marton Moss is the place it stays.
Already started? Pull over when it is safe, then turn off. Great Marton Moss lies under 3 miles from the M55; there, take the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Great Marton Moss is smaller a job than a trip of under 15 miles towards Preston, so say.
Great Marton Moss: what happens when we arrive
The van comes to the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own drive, near School Road, or by Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School. Those replies determine the work and the price, and so our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it's run. During the call itself, you hear our price — ahead of dispatch.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of that washes away on its own, however long it sits. Filter flushed or, if needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the vehicle. We don't go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Great Marton Moss itself
Great Marton Moss is a small suburban area located on the coast of Lancashire, with an elevation of around 6 metres above sea level. Great Marton Moss sits near the communities of Walkers Hill and Common Edge, and is close to Marton Moss Side. Great Marton Moss is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is situated approximately 12.7 miles from Preston.
AdBlue drains around Great Marton Moss and across Lancashire
Great Marton Moss is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Common Edge and Marton Moss Side among them, across the FY postcode area. Give a postcode beginning FY4 5, and the van arrives quickest.
Moving the vehicle isn't necessary. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Blackpool Road Recreation Ground, a side street close to Bruce Park: we drain the vehicle where it is. Tricky to explain, like the back of Coast Riders? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, so phone.
For Great Marton Moss people, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Lancashire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off and call 0333 366 0103.