Honresfeld: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. In Honresfeld, finding it before the engine runs normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. Reading in advance? Then what follows explains why it happens and how to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your engine — yet many current diesels seen about Honresfeld and Littleborough carry another liquid too. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the pump 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 often. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around Honresfeld?
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Blackstone Edge Old Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Rake Inn.
New-to-you cars come second, too. Hire cars, new cars and company motors place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in Durn or the middle of Honresfeld, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Lydgate or a forecourt around Honresfeld.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is if your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you collect a rental or fleet car — from Littleborough's car park, perhaps — not when the warning comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are around Greater Manchester — a simple routine to use.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, engine off, and not in a rush by Schofield Street on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- 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.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Honresfeld?
Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things starts. Leave your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at Texaco, Shell or another forecourt will normally help pushing the vehicle away when asked. If you are on your own drive around Honresfeld, leave the car where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. The next junction means where to come off if you're on the M62, under 3 miles from Honresfeld. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Honresfeld is smaller work than a trip of under 15 miles towards Manchester, and so tell us.
Our arrival around Honresfeld, and what happens next
Anywhere the car has stopped, whether by Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, near Holy Trinity or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, since the replies settle the work and our price. On the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of dispatch.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. After your filter is cleaned — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your car gets tested. Your engine is started next and tested to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians go.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Honresfeld
Honresfeld is a locality in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of around 200 metres. Honresfeld lies approximately 13 miles east of Manchester and is surrounded by nearby places such as Durn, Ealees, and Gale. Honresfeld has a population of around 584 people and features predominantly terraced housing. Honresfeld is located in the North West region of England, about 169 miles north of London.
Honresfeld and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Ealees and Gale are among the places around Honresfeld, a small village, that the same vans cover, over OL postcodes. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting OL15 0.
Shifting the car isn't needed. Draining happens right there, be it a drive, a road near Hollingworth Visitor Centre, or a lay-by towards Whittaker Golf Club. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Barnabas.
The short version for Honresfeld motorists
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.