AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Little Moor End: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, keep your ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. In Little Moor End, finding it before the motor runs normally means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it happens and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels around Little Moor End and Hoyle Bottom run, with diesel feeding your engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has a filler of its own. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two together behind one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Little Moor End
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Church Street, perhaps at Black Dog on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors are next, as well. Rentals, new cars and company motors place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Little Moor End or out in Oswaldtwistle.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Look at these first, on a forecourt in Little Moor End or a drive out in Foxhill Bank. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many vehicles have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Church & Oswaldtwistle.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
The day the light comes on, anywhere around Lancashire, use this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of New Lane.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Little Moor End?
Don't start the engine: that is how the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
The staff at the nearest petrol station, Asda or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car clear when asked. Your own drive in Little Moor End is the place it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. On the M65, under 3 miles from Little Moor End, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Preston, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Little Moor End.
Little Moor End: what happens when we turn up
Wherever the car has stopped, whether outside Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary School, near Holy Trinity or on your own drive, the van comes to it. What fluid was put in, the quantity, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since the replies decide both work and price. That quote is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Emptying that tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. After your filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel is added, and finally your vehicle is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run need about half an hour once we are there. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Little Moor End itself
Little Moor End is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Lancashire, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 5183 residents. Little Moor End sits at an elevation of 163 metres, approximately 12 miles from Preston and 181 miles from London. Little Moor End is located near other local places such as Oswaldtwistle, Stanhill, and West End, and is part of the wider North West region.
AdBlue drains around Little Moor End, and Lancashire beyond
Stanhill and West End are among the places around Little Moor End, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over BB postcodes. Give a postcode that starts BB5 3, and the van gets there quickest.
There's no need to move the car. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a road by Oswaldtwistle Library, or a lay-by on the way to Jubilee Gardens. Assuming won't help at the back of Immanuel, close to a border, or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and check.
Little Moor End people: the short version
Tip no AdBlue till you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Lancashire.