Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hole House: Why It Happens
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Hole House. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your motor — yet many current diesels seen round Hole House and Daisyfield carry a second liquid too. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
There's a filler on every 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. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, week in, week out. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. It's in the gap that the mistake happens.
Hole House: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Didsbury Street before work, or in the car park outside The Toll Bar on the way home.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: a strange vehicle.
A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, carries on. Green Bank or the heart of Hole House: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Hole House or a drive over in Queens Park. A few seconds, that's all.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook says which it is when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Blackburn, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — wherever you are around Lancashire — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Leicester Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — after you've located the filler and read the cap.
- The two behind one flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Hole House?
Do not start your engine: that's how the short order of things starts. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the pump. At home around Hole House? So the car stays where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. Hole House sits under a mile from the M65; there, take the first junction. A short hop across Hole House is a smaller job than a run towards Preston, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians get there around Hole House, what takes place?
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Intack Primary School, near St Thomas with St Jude or on your own drive. The replies determine the work and the quote, so our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. On the call itself, you are told the quote — before anything else.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, however long it sits. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before we leave, we start the engine and make sure that it is running properly.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. No money upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Hole House, for a moment
Hole House is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Lancashire, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Hole House sits at an elevation of 137 metres, approximately 10 miles from Preston and 183 miles from London. Hole House is located near other local areas, including Green Bank, Whitebirk, and Intack, and has a population of around 8123 residents. Hole House forms part of the wider urban landscape of the North West region.
AdBlue drains round Hole House, and Lancashire beyond
Whitebirk and Intack are among the places around Hole House, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BB postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BB1 3.
There's no need to shift your car. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road by Khanqah, or a lay-by towards Queen's Park. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Stephen, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Hole House motorists
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere across Lancashire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off and call 0333 366 0103.