Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kerridge: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Kerridge, finding it before your motor runs usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — yet many newer diesels driven around Kerridge and Bollington Cross carry a second liquid too. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas and cleans it.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place the two side by side under one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Kerridge: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Redway Lane, or on the way home in the car park outside The Bull's Head.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: a strange car.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, keeps on. It takes seconds, whether out in Bollington or right in the heart of Kerridge.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Kerridge forecourt or a drive out in Rainow, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Prestbury? Ask the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across Cheshire, use this routine.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Jackson Lane.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it does the trick.
- Both behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on the diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Kerridge?
Brief order, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Shell, the Tesco or somewhere else. Your own drive around Kerridge is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. On the Roscoe's Spur, under 10 miles from Kerridge, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Kerridge is smaller a job than a run of under 15 miles towards Manchester, so tell us.
Our arrival in Kerridge, and what takes place next
By Bollington St John's CofE Primary School, near White Nancy or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, what amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. You get that price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then that tank is emptied and the system rinsed thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, some metals corrode, and none of it washes out on its own, however long it sits. Once the filter is flushed — or renewed, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally the vehicle gets tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine hasn't run take about half an hour after we are there. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Kerridge itself
Kerridge is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated on the banks of the River Dean, with an elevation of around 197 metres. Kerridge lies near the towns of Bollington and Macclesfield, and is close to the Peak District National Park. Kerridge has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most common, and its population is approximately 2167 residents. Kerridge is located near several nearby places, including Lowerhouse and Sowcar, and is within commuting distance of Manchester, which is around 14 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Kerridge and across Cheshire
As a residential suburb, Kerridge has the same vans as surrounding places — Sowcar, Lowerhouse — right across SK postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SK10 5.
Moving the vehicle isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a road by Old horse trough, or a layby towards Waulkmill Wood. Tricky to explain, like the back of Ingersley Clough Mill? Close to a border? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
In short, for Kerridge people
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere across Cheshire.