How It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Ince-in-Makerfield
Leave your motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Ince-in-Makerfield. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads around Ince-in-Makerfield and Scholes carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There's a filler for every tank. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every filling station visit, week in, week out. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Ince-in-Makerfield: how it takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the vehicle, and running out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Haigh View, perhaps at Rock Ferry Inn on the way home that evening.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is a second factor: a strange car.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Whether it occurs in Lower Ince or the middle of Ince-in-Makerfield, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Lakes Terrace or a forecourt in Ince-in-Makerfield.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- 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 your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Ince.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere around Greater Manchester, use this routine.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never in a rush by Ince Green Lane on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both sit under a flap, confirm it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Never carry on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Ince-in-Makerfield?
Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things begins. Keep the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, right where fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Texaco or the Tesco, ask the staff to help roll the car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Ince-in-Makerfield.
Where your motor has been run by now, stop safely and turn the car off. Leave the Bryn Spur — under 3 miles out of Ince-in-Makerfield — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Ince-in-Makerfield is less work than a run of under 15 miles to Salford, so tell us.
Ince-in-Makerfield: what takes place when our engineers get there
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it by Britannia Bridge Primary School, beside Christ Church or at home, our van travels to it. We ask what got in, about how much, and whether it has run, because those answers decide the work and our price. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, some metals corrode, and none of it clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a check of your vehicle. Then our technicians fire it up and check it runs properly before leaving.
If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Ince-in-Makerfield and where it is
Ince-in-Makerfield is a town in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 49 metres, with nearby places including Lower Ince, Higher Ince, and Rose Bridge. Ince-in-Makerfield has a population of approximately 18738 people, and its predominant housing stock consists of semi-detached homes. Ince-in-Makerfield is located near Salford, which is 13.7 miles away, and is about 174.9 miles from London. Ince-in-Makerfield sits in the North West region of England, within the gently flowing valleys and lowlands of the area.
AdBlue drains in Ince-in-Makerfield and across Greater Manchester
Ince-in-Makerfield is a riverside town, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Higher Ince and Rose Bridge among them, across the WN postcode area. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting WN3 4.
No need to move the car. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a street by The Iron Masters, or a lay-by on the way to William Foster Playing Fields. Awkward to explain, like the back of Arches? Close to a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
In short, for Ince-in-Makerfield people
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Greater Manchester.