Higher Disley: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. In Higher Disley, catching it before the engine runs normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Not one fluid but two: that is what plenty of newer diesels around Higher Disley and Hague Bar carry, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. It's in that gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Higher Disley
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Elizabeth Avenue before work, or in the car park outside White Lion on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Higher Disley or out in Danebank.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Newtown or a forecourt in Higher Disley, check these. They take a few seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles mark what goes in which inlet right there.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Disley? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is around Cheshire — a simple routine to use.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Crabtree Avenue.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, but it works.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the cap on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Higher Disley?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the New Mills Marina Diesel Pump, ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. Your own driveway in Higher Disley is the place it stays.
Already run? Stop when it is sensible, then switch off. Higher Disley sits under 10 miles from the M60; there, use the next exit. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Higher Disley makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles towards Manchester — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians turn up in Higher Disley
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Disley Primary School, beside Disley Methodist Church or at home, our van comes to it. What fluid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask since the answers decide the work and quote. You hear that quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears away unaided, however long it sits. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. Next we fire it up and check it runs correctly before we leave.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Higher Disley itself
Higher Disley is a suburban area situated on the edge of a lake in Cheshire, with a mix of detached housing and scenic views. Higher Disley sits at an elevation of 242 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and providing a tranquil atmosphere for its residents. Higher Disley is located near several nearby places, including Danebank, Lane Ends, and Disley, and is approximately 12 miles from Manchester.
AdBlue drains about Higher Disley, and Cheshire beyond
Being a residential suburb, Higher Disley shares its vans surrounding places — Lane Ends, Disley — all the way across SK postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting SK12 2 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting your car is not necessary. Draining happens right there, be it a drive, a street by Seven Springs Outdoor Activity Centre, or a layby on the way to Burymewick Wood. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Disley Baptist Church, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Higher Disley drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere in Cheshire.