AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lane Side: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Lane Side. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers why it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the engine — but many newer diesels seen round Lane Side and Helmcroft carry a second fluid too. Stored 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 vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others place both side by side under one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Lane Side
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Colldale Terrace, or outside The Green Squirrel on the way home after work.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and after the pour starts, nothing halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Lane Side or out in Longshoot.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Waterfoot or a forecourt around Lane Side.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives if the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Accrington? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, not once the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lancashire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Hall Street, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays closed before raising the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Skip step five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Lane Side already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting your motor. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Texaco or the another forecourt nearby, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive in Lane Side, leave it where it sits.
Where your engine has been run by now, pull over safely and turn the vehicle off. The next exit means the place to leave if you are on the M66, under 3 miles from Lane Side. A short hop across Lane Side is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Our arrival around Lane Side, and what happens next
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Haslingden Primary School, close to St Peter or on your own drive. We ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, because the replies settle this work and our price. You get that price by phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of that washes away on its own, no matter how long it is left. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine hasn't run take about half an hour once our engineers are there. The insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Lane Side and where it is
Lane Side is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with nearby settlements including Longshoot and Haslingden. Lane Side has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced homes. Lane Side sits at an elevation of 246 metres, relatively high compared to the surrounding areas, and is located near Well Bank. Lane Side is approximately 15 miles from Salford, making it a commuter base for the city.
AdBlue drains around Lane Side, and Lancashire beyond
As a residential suburb, Lane Side has the same vans as nearby places — Haslingden, Well Bank — right across BB postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BB4 6.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. A drive, a lay-by on the way to St. Peters Playing Fields, a side street close to Greenfield Gardens War Memorial: our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. Awkward to explain, like the back of Haslingden Library? Close to a county line? Asking beats guessing, and so ring.
For Lane Side drivers, the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Lancashire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.