AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hag Fold: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
Pause here a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your motor has not run, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle is in Hag Fold. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels around Hag Fold and Shakerley run, with diesel feeding your engine. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for each tank. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each forecourt call-out, again and again. Much less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Hag Fold?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a driveway off Kent Road before work, or in the car park at George VI on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode follows.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as easily, and once the tip starts, nothing stops it. Atherton or the middle of Hag Fold: it is the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Daisy Hill or a forecourt around Hag Fold, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- 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.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light appears — anywhere it is across Greater Manchester — a routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Flapper Fold Lane, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Skip step five entirely.
Hag Fold: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your engine. Leave the ignition off too, since on many diesels it by itself runs the pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the BP or the Tesco, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive around Hag Fold, leave the car where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M61, under 3 miles from Hag Fold, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Hag Fold is smaller work than a run of under 10 miles towards Salford, so tell us.
When we get there around Hag Fold, what happens?
Outside St Richard's Roman Catholic Primary School Atherton, near St George or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. The quote comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after the tank is drained. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. After your filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel goes in, and then your vehicle gets tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and check that it is running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Hag Fold and where it is
Hag Fold is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the lakeside at an elevation of 63 metres. Hag Fold lies approximately 8.9 miles from Salford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Atherton, Hindsford, and Howe Bridge. Hag Fold has a population of around 9120 people and predominantly features semi-detached housing. Hag Fold is located in the North West region of England, about 171.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Hag Fold, and Greater Manchester beyond
Hindsford and Howe Bridge are among the places around Hag Fold, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout M postcodes. Give a postcode beginning M46 0, and our van gets there fastest.
Shifting the car is not necessary. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to New Park Wood, a side street near Atherton Evangelical Church: our technicians drain it where it is. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Atherton Salvation Army Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Hag Fold people, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.