Kearsley Moss: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Stop here a minute when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. In Kearsley Moss, finding it before the engine turns normally means a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you are reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Not one liquid but two: that's how many newer diesels near Kearsley Moss and Ringley Fold run, with diesel for your motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Kearsley Moss
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
On a drive off Calder Drive before work, or in the car park at Spread Eagle on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as readily, and once the tip begins, nothing halts it. Kearsley or the middle of Kearsley Moss: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, at a forecourt in Kearsley Moss or a drive over in Prestolee. Seconds, that's all.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it beside your diesel inlet? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook says where.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Kearsley.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere across Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Medway Drive, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — once you've found your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where both sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently through its own spout.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Kearsley Moss already?
Do not start the engine: that is where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Esso, the Shell or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive around Kearsley Moss, leave it where it stands.
Where your motor has been run already, pull over somewhere safe then turn the vehicle off. On the M61, under a mile from Kearsley Moss, that means the next exit. A short hop across Kearsley Moss is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 5 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Kearsley Moss: what takes place when our engineers arrive
Our van reaches the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside Parish Church of St. Stephen, or by St Stephen's CofE Primary School. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those replies settle the work and the quote. Nobody sets off before you have had the price over the phone.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Before we leave, we start it and confirm that it's running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Kearsley Moss and where it is
Kearsley Moss is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 97 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Kearsley Moss lies near the cities of Salford and Manchester, and is close to nearby places such as Kearsley, Stoneclough, and Ringley. Kearsley Moss has a population of approximately 4139 residents, and is located about 168.9 miles northwest of London. Kearsley Moss forms part of the wider urban area surrounding Salford, with which it has strong transport links.
AdBlue drains in Kearsley Moss and across Greater Manchester
Throughout BL postcodes, our vans covering Kearsley Moss — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Ringley and Stoneclough included. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BL4 8.
The vehicle stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Kearsley Park, a side street close to Kearsley Mount Methodist Church: our technicians drain the vehicle where it is. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Schoenstatte Shrine, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The short version for Kearsley Moss drivers
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, anywhere in Greater Manchester: switch the car off and call 0333 366 0103.