AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lower Baxenden: Why It Happens and How to Stop It
Keep your engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Lower Baxenden. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many newer diesels seen about Lower Baxenden and Sherfin carry another fluid as well. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Many of motors have a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Lower Baxenden: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Manchester Road before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
Nothing halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Baxenden or the middle of Lower Baxenden: it takes the same few seconds either way.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Acre or a forecourt in Lower Baxenden.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it lives when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Accrington, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere around Lancashire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Blackburn Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have found the filler and read it.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly using the own spout.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Lower Baxenden?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Leave the ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it by itself starts the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the base rather than mixing — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Shell, Esso or another — the staff will usually help push the car away, when you ask. On your own drive in Lower Baxenden? So your car remains where it is.
Where your motor has been run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch the car off. On the M65, under 5 miles from Lower Baxenden, 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 Lower Baxenden.
What occurs when we turn up in Lower Baxenden
By Baxenden St John's Church of England Primary School, near Baxenden Cricket Club or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. The answers determine this work and the quote, and so we ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Lower Baxenden and where it is
Lower Baxenden is a suburban area situated near the River Calder in Lancashire, with a mix of terraced housing and a relatively small population of around 1154 residents. Lower Baxenden sits at an elevation of 237 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and the nearby villages of Baxenden and Higher Baxenden. Lower Baxenden is located near the larger settlement of Rising Bridge and is approximately 14.8 miles from Preston, the nearest city. Lower Baxenden forms part of the wider residential area around Accrington and Blackburn.
Lower Baxenden and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Lower Baxenden is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Rising Bridge and Higher Baxenden among them, across the BB postcode area. A postcode starting BB5 2 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car stays put. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a street by Church of St John the Baptist, or a lay-by towards Baxenden Golf Course. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Haworth Art Gallery.
In short, for Lower Baxenden people
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere across Lancashire.