Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Heady Hill: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Around Heady Hill, catching it before your engine runs usually means draining and a full flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels near Heady Hill and Bottom o th Brow carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two together behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It's in that gap that the error happens.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur in Heady Hill?
It is rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Bury Old Road, or heading home in the car park at The Summit.
Unfamiliar vehicles come next, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as easily, and once the pour begins, nothing halts it. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Top of Heap or bang in the heart of Heady Hill.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Broadfield or a forecourt around Heady Hill.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook shows which it lives if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Castleton? Check with the person who drove the car last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere around Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Whalley Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Stop once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip gently using its built-in spout.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Don't carry on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Heady Hill?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Morrisons or the Texaco, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. On your own drive in Heady Hill? So the vehicle stays where it is.
When your motor has been run by now, stop safely and turn the vehicle off. Come off the M66 — under 3 miles out of Heady Hill — at the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Heady Hill is less work than a trip of under 10 miles towards Manchester, so say.
Heady Hill: what happens when we turn up
Anywhere the car came to rest, whether outside St Margaret's Church of England Primary School, near St Margaret or at home, the van comes to it. Which fluid went in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those replies set the work and price. No one sets off until you have heard our quote over the phone.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes out unaided. That is why it matters more. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our technicians get there, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Heady Hill and where it is
Heady Hill is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated approximately 7.8 miles from Manchester city centre. Heady Hill sits at an elevation of around 140 metres, in a region of gently sloping hills and valleys. Heady Hill is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, which reflects the area's historical development as a residential suburb. Heady Hill is located near other local places such as Top of Heap, Summit, and Darn Hill.
AdBlue drains around Heady Hill and across Greater Manchester
Summit and Darn Hill are among the places near Heady Hill, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over OL postcodes. Fastest of all: give a OL10 3 postcode for our van.
Shifting the vehicle isn't needed. Draining takes place on the spot, whether a driveway, a road by Heywood St James, or a layby towards Lomax Wood. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Heywood Sports Village? By a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
In short, for Heady Hill people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave it off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Greater Manchester.