Lakes Terrace: 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 a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where the car sits in Lakes Terrace, is usually all it takes when caught before your motor runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Not one fluid but two: that's what plenty of newer diesels around Lakes Terrace and Top Lock run, with diesel for your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Lakes Terrace
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Keswick Place before work, or in the car park at The Squirrel on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar car.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, carries on. It takes seconds, whether in Higher Ince or bang in the heart of Lakes Terrace.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Lakes Terrace forecourt or a drive out in Scholes, take a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by position.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — many cars mark which belongs in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Ince? Ask the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Greater Manchester that is.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Moat House Street.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? Then make sure the cap on the diesel side is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Never carry on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Lakes Terrace?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting your engine. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — so leave it off. Topping up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the BP or somewhere else. At home around Lakes Terrace? Then your car stays put.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M61 — under 3 miles out of Lakes Terrace — at the next exit. A short hop across Lakes Terrace is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we arrive around Lakes Terrace, what takes place?
Wherever your car came to rest, whether by Ince CofE Primary School, near Ince Clinic & Community Centre or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — what liquid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. The price is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is drained. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. After your filter has been flushed — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally the vehicle gets tested. Before we go, our engineers start the car and check that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Lakes Terrace
Lakes Terrace is a locality situated on the riverside in Greater Manchester, with an elevation of 48 metres above sea level. Lakes Terrace lies approximately 13 miles from Salford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Higher Ince, Rose Bridge, and Ince-in-Makerfield. Lakes Terrace has a population of around 3397 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Lakes Terrace is located in the North West region of England, about 175 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Lakes Terrace, and Greater Manchester beyond
Throughout WN postcodes, our vans covering Lakes Terrace — a small village — work the surrounding locations too, Ince-in-Makerfield and Rose Bridge among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WN2 2.
The vehicle stays where it is. Wherever it sits — beside Smithy Green Precinct, in a layby heading to Walmesley Park, on a drive — that is where it gets emptied. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Ince Independent Methodist Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Lakes Terrace motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.