AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hazelhurst: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep the ignition and motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Hazelhurst, finding it before the engine runs usually means draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Reading in advance? Then what follows covers why it comes about and how to stop it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Diesel feeds the engine — but plenty of modern diesels seen round Hazelhurst and Tanners hold another liquid as well. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think what cap it needs. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Hazelhurst
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
On a driveway off Ringwood Avenue before work, or in the car park at The Fusilier on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — because a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Nothing halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, be it out in Tagg Wood or right in the centre of Hazelhurst.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Holcombe Brook or a forecourt around Hazelhurst.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it lives when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check when you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Entwistle's car park, say — not once the warning appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Carrwood Hey.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Don't go on to stage five.
Hazelhurst: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. Leave your ignition off as well, because on many diesels switching it on alone starts the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Esso, EG On the Move or another — the attendants will normally help roll your car away, when you ask. On your own drive in Hazelhurst? Then your car stays put.
Already run? Stop once it is sensible, then switch off. Leave the M66 — under a mile out of Hazelhurst — at the next junction. A short hop across Hazelhurst is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 15 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Hazelhurst, and what occurs next
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Hazlehurst Primary Academy, near Millennium Bench or on your own driveway. Those replies settle this work and our price, and so our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and if it has run. You hear that quote by phone, before anybody heads out.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. No money upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Hazelhurst and where it is
Hazelhurst is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the riverside and surrounded by nearby places such as Tagg Wood and Nuttall. Hazelhurst has a population of approximately 4309 residents and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing. Hazelhurst sits at an elevation of 184 metres, within commuting distance of Salford, which is 11 miles away. Hazelhurst is also relatively close to other local areas, including Holcombe.
AdBlue drains around Hazelhurst, and Greater Manchester beyond
Nuttall and Holcombe are among the places near Hazelhurst, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout BL postcodes. Give a postcode that starts BL0 9, and our van gets there quickest.
The car stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Tagg Wood, a side street near Peel Tower: our technicians drain the vehicle where it is. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St. Andrews Church.
In short, for Hazelhurst motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.