AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Maghery: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
Stop reading a minute when your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your engine hasn't run, it's drained and fully flushed where the car is in Maghery. Here in advance? Then the rest covers why it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
No single liquid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels around Maghery and Tartaraghan run, with diesel for the motor. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. 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. Diesel gets filled at each filling station visit, week in, week out. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
Maghery: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Heugh Road before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: an unfamiliar motor.
Third, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as easily, and after the tip begins, nothing stops it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Maghery or out in The Birches.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Acton or a forecourt around Maghery.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many motors show which goes in each filler just there.
- Can't see it beside your diesel inlet? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside the nearest station? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever around County Armagh the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Chalet Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found the filler and read it.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the 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.
- Shut the cap, and look again — making sure the diesel filler stayed closed throughout. After that, start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Do not go on to step five.
Maghery: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Leave the ignition off too, because on many diesels switching it on by itself starts your pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or the another forecourt nearby, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. If you're on your own driveway in Maghery, leave it where it stands.
Already started? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. The next junction is the place to come off when you are on the M77, over 50 miles from Maghery. About how far did it go? Crossing Maghery is less work than a trip of under 15 miles towards Armagh, so say.
What happens when we get there around Maghery
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside the local primary school, near the centre or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those replies decide the work and the price. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
The system is then purged thoroughly, after the tank is emptied. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing washes out unaided, however long it sits. Filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of the car. We don't go until it has been started and is running properly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Maghery, for a moment
Maghery is a small locality in County Armagh, situated inland near the southern shore of Lough Neagh. Maghery sits at an elevation of 21 metres, approximately 11.6 miles from the city of Armagh. Maghery is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, with nearby places including The Birches, Washing Bay, and Bannfoot. Maghery is a relatively small community, with a population of around 701 people.
Maghery and County Armagh: AdBlue drains across the area
Maghery is a small village, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, Washing Bay and Bannfoot among them, across the BT postcode area. Quickest of all: quote a BT71 6 postcode to our van.
No need to shift the car. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road near a street just off the centre, or a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of the far end of the built-up part, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Maghery drivers
Always, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across County Armagh, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.