AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Heyside: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Heyside. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads round Heyside and Luzley Brook carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh them, from a separate tank.
There's 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. Topping up the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. It's in the gap that the error lives.
Heyside: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things lining up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Heyside, perhaps at Duke of York on the way home after work.
Unfamiliar motors come second, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. Whether it occurs in Brownlow or the middle of Heyside, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Heyside forecourt or a drive out in Higginshaw, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — many motors mark what goes in each filler just there.
- The handbook says where it is when the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Mills Hill? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — anywhere you are in Greater Manchester — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor off, and not in a rush beside Clarence Street at the roadside.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you've found your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five is out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Heyside?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
The staff at Red Rose Filling Station, Texaco or any forecourt will usually help pushing the vehicle away if asked. Your own driveway in Heyside is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. On the A627(M), under 3 miles from Heyside, that means the next exit. A short hop across Heyside is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we arrive around Heyside, what happens?
By Blackshaw Lane Primary & Nursery School, close to St Mark or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those answers determine this work and the quote. On the call itself, you are told our price — before anything else.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before leaving, our technicians fire it up and check that it is running smoothly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run take roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Heyside and where it is
Heyside is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Beal and characterised by semi-detached housing. Heyside sits at an elevation of 182 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside. Heyside is located close to several nearby places, including Brownlow, Royton Moss, and Shaw Edge, and is approximately 8.3 miles from Manchester. Heyside has a population of around 3188 residents.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Heyside included
Royton Moss and Shaw Edge are among the places near Heyside, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over OL postcodes. Fastest of all: give a OL2 6 postcode to our van.
There's no need to move your car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St Aidan and St Oswald Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Stoneleigh Park, a driveway. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Royton Leisure Centre? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, so phone.
Heyside people: the short version
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it stands, anywhere around Greater Manchester: keep the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.