AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lowerhouse: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Pause reading a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where your vehicle stands around Lowerhouse, is normally what it needs if found before the engine runs. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains why it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Many current diesels on the roads about Lowerhouse and Whiteley Green carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to fresh it, from its own tank.
Each tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Lowerhouse
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Moss Brow, or heading home in the car park outside Dog and Partridge.
Then, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Bollington Cross or the middle of Lowerhouse, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, on a forecourt around Lowerhouse or a drive over in Bollington. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Prestbury? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere across Cheshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not hurried on the side of Moss Lane.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Finish when that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip slowly using its built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Lowerhouse?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor remains unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Shell, the Tesco or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Lowerhouse.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit means where to come off if you are on the Roscoe's Spur, under 10 miles from Lowerhouse. A short hop across Lowerhouse is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 15 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
Lowerhouse: what takes place when our technicians get there
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Dean Valley Community Primary School, near St Oswald or on your own driveway. Both the work and the quote depend on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and whether it has run — so we ask. No one sets off before you've had the quote over the phone.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. A test is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Your engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before we leave.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It is worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Lowerhouse
Lowerhouse is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 129 metres. Lowerhouse lies approximately 13.7 miles from Manchester and 149.3 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location. Lowerhouse is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the typical residential architecture of the region. Lowerhouse is close to nearby places such as Bollington Cross, Bradley Mount, and Butley Town, which are also part of the local community.
AdBlue drains across Cheshire, Lowerhouse included
Over SK postcodes, our teams covering Lowerhouse — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Butley Town and Bradley Mount included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SK10 5.
Moving the car is not needed. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Festival Labyrinth, a lay-by on the way to Adlington Road Play Area, a drive. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Bollington Arts Centre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The short version for Lowerhouse people
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere around Cheshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.