Holcombe Brook: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Holcombe Brook. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads around Holcombe Brook and Lower Summerseat carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think which cap it needs. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Holcombe Brook?
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Garden City, perhaps outside Hare and Hounds on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors come second, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company vehicles put their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and after the tip begins, no part halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Holcombe Brook or out in Higher Summerseat.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Holcombe Brook forecourt or a driveway over in Hazelhurst, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- On plenty of cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- Can't find it next to your diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook will say where.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Bromley Cross, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in Greater Manchester the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Montrose Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour slowly using its built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — making sure the diesel filler remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Holcombe Brook?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Esso, Shell or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle clear, if you ask. Your own drive around Holcombe Brook is the place it should stay.
Where your engine has run by now, pull over somewhere safe then turn it off. Holcombe Brook lies under 3 miles from the M66; there, use the first exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Holcombe Brook is less a job than a run of under 15 miles towards Salford, so say.
Our arrival in Holcombe Brook, and what happens next
Our van reaches your car wherever it has come to rest — your own drive, near Greenmount Old School Community Centre, or by Holcombe Brook Primary School. What liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since those replies set the work and price. No one sets off until you have heard our price by phone.
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, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of the vehicle. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it is running correctly.
If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Holcombe Brook
Holcombe Brook is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 148 metres. Holcombe Brook lies approximately 10 miles from Salford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Higher Summerseat and Greenmount. Holcombe Brook has a population of around 4981 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Holcombe Brook is located in the North West region of England, about 173 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Holcombe Brook included
Holcombe Brook is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Greenmount and Brooksbottoms among them, across the BL postcode area. A postcode starting BL0 9 gets the van to you fastest.
The car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Emmanuel Church Centre, a lay-by on the way to Greenmount Golf Club, a driveway. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Greenmount Cricket Club, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Holcombe Brook people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, wherever across Greater Manchester: switch the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.