Hulton Lane Ends: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down for now, keep your ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Around Hulton Lane Ends, catching it before the engine runs usually means a drain and a full flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels on the roads round Hulton Lane Ends and Daubhill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. That gap is where the slip lives.
Hulton Lane Ends: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Haste comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Salford Road, or on the way home in the car park at The Red Lion.
New-to-you motors are second, as well. Rentals, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, keeps on. It takes seconds, be it in Middle Hulton or right in the heart of Hulton Lane Ends.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Hunger Hill or a forecourt around Hulton Lane Ends, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Atherton? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — anywhere it is across Greater Manchester — a simple routine to follow.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Crescent Avenue.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located your filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Skip step five altogether.
Hulton Lane Ends: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Leave your ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your 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 your fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Esso or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive in Hulton Lane Ends, leave it where it sits.
Already started? Stop when it's safe, then turn off. On the M61, under a mile from Hulton Lane Ends, that means the next exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Hulton Lane Ends makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles to Salford — so tell us roughly how far it went.
What happens when our engineers arrive in Hulton Lane Ends
By St Andrew's CofE Primary School, Over Hulton, close to St Andrew's Church Over Hulton or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. What fluid got in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask because the replies decide the work and quote. No one heads out before you've had the quote by phone.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the entire system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it matters more. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or changed as needed. After that our engineers fire it up and make sure it runs properly before we leave.
If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Hulton Lane Ends itself
Hulton Lane Ends is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Croal and close to the towns of Middle Hulton and Over Hulton. Hulton Lane Ends has a population of around 1156 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Hulton Lane Ends is located approximately 8 miles from Salford and 171 miles from London, with the area sitting at an elevation of 132 metres. Hulton Lane Ends forms part of the wider residential area that includes Edge Fold and other nearby neighbourhoods.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Hulton Lane Ends included
Edge Fold and Over Hulton are among the towns around Hulton Lane Ends, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BL postcodes. Fastest of all: quote a BL5 1 postcode to our van.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to The Firs, a side street near St Vincent de Paul Catholic Church: our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Vincent's Parish Centre, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The short version for Hulton Lane Ends drivers
Pour no AdBlue till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Greater Manchester.