How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lingley Green
Leave the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if the motor hasn't run, it's emptied and fully rinsed where your car is around Lingley Green. The remainder of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Not one liquid but two: that's what many modern diesels around Lingley Green and Doe Green carry, with diesel for the 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.
Separate tanks, different fillers. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Lingley Green?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from your car, and running out means limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Lingley Green Avenue, perhaps at Trigger Pond on the way home after work.
New-to-you motors are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing stops the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Lingley Mere or right in the heart of Lingley Green.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Lingley Green forecourt or a driveway out in Bold Heath, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark which goes in each inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Sankey for Penketh? Check with whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever around Cheshire, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Park Road Roundabout, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- 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 diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Never carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Lingley Green?
Brief order, then. First: your motor remains unstarted. Keep the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs your fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — BP, CNG Fuel Station or any other — the staff will normally help push the vehicle away, if you ask. If you are on your own drive in Lingley Green, leave it where it is.
Already started? Stop when it's safe, then turn off. Leave the M62 — under 3 miles out of Lingley Green — at the first exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Lingley Green is a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Liverpool — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our engineers turn up in Lingley Green, what takes place?
Outside Park Road Community Primary School, near Jireh Church or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. The replies settle the work and the quote, and so we ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. That price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Once your filter is cleaned — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. Before leaving, our engineers start it and check that it's running properly.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run need about half an hour once our technicians are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Lingley Green
Lingley Green is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated near the riverside with an elevation of 19 metres, and is located approximately 12.8 miles from Liverpool. Lingley Green has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly composed of semi-detached homes. Lingley Green is close to nearby places such as Lingley Mere, Great Sankey, and Penketh, and is about 168.7 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Lingley Green and across Cheshire
Great Sankey and Penketh are among the places near Lingley Green, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over WA postcodes. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WA5 3.
The vehicle remains where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a side street near Great Sankey Neighbourhood Hub: our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Whittle Hall Community Centre.
In short, for Lingley Green drivers
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the car off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Cheshire.