Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kitt Green
Keep the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when the engine has not turned, it is drained and thoroughly cleaned where your car sits around Kitt Green. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels around Kitt Green and Lamberhead Green carry, with diesel feeding your 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.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two side by side under one flap. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The error lives in that gap.
Kitt Green: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a drive off City Road before work, or in the car park at Kitt Green Tavern on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you vehicles come next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
No part stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in The Bell or the middle of Kitt Green, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Worsley Hall or a forecourt in Kitt Green, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Pemberton? Ask whoever drove the car last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Orrell Hall Close.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Kitt Green: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Thinning it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
At a forecourt — Esso, BP or another — the staff will normally help push the vehicle away, when you ask. Your own drive in Kitt Green is where it stays.
Where your motor has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. On the M6, under a mile from Kitt Green, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Kitt Green is a smaller job than driving under 15 miles towards Preston — so say roughly how far it went.
What occurs when our technicians get there around Kitt Green
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy, close to St Francis of Assisi or on your own driveway. What liquid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since the answers decide the work and quote. You get that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it washes out by itself. Hence it counts more. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The engine is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs properly, all before our technicians head off.
If your engine has not run, the majority of 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. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Kitt Green
Kitt Green is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated inland at an elevation of 62 metres. Kitt Green lies approximately 14.9 miles from Preston and 177 miles from London, with nearby places including The Bell, Norley, and Marsh Green. Kitt Green is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the typical residential development patterns of the North West region. Kitt Green has a population of around 7466 people, making it a modestly sized community within the wider area.
AdBlue drains around Kitt Green and across Greater Manchester
Norley and Marsh Green are among the towns near Kitt Green, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over WN postcodes. Fastest of all: give a WN5 0 postcode for the van.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits — near Saint John the Divine, on a lay-by heading to Central Park, on a drive — that is where it gets emptied. Awkward to explain, like the back of Marsh Green Community Centre? Close to a border? Asking beats guessing, and so ring.
The short version for Kitt Green motorists
First, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere across Greater Manchester.