AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Moor Park: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Moor Park, catching it before the engine turns normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. The rest of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it does not — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Many newer diesels in Buckley Hill, like those in Moor Park, carry on two liquids; the motor gets just your diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Some cars put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both side by side behind one flap. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Moor Park
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Sycamore Avenue, or heading home in the car park at Murphy's Tavern.
Unfamiliar motors are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. Thornton or the middle of Moor Park: it is the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Ford or a forecourt around Moor Park, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's 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 Blundellsands & Crosby.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever across Merseyside, follow this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Chestnut Avenue.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting the car, shut the cap and check again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Skip stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Moor Park?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. 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 pulled from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the Shell, ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the pump. If you are on your own driveway in Moor Park, leave the car where it stands.
Already run? Pull over when it is safe, then switch off. On the M58, under 3 miles from Moor Park, that means the next junction. A short hop across Moor Park is a smaller job than a run towards Liverpool, under 10 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
What occurs when we arrive around Moor Park
By Forefield Junior School, near All Saints' Church or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask because those answers set both work and price. Nobody sets off until you have heard our price by phone.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, some metals are attacked, and nothing clears away on its own, however long it sits. Once your filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. We don't go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Moor Park, for a moment
Moor Park is a suburban area in Merseyside, situated near the coast and approximately 6 miles north of Liverpool. Moor Park has a relatively low elevation of around 17 metres above sea level, and its proximity to the coast influences its local climate. Moor Park is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in the North West of England. Moor Park is also close to nearby places such as Thornton, Great Crosby, and Little Crosby.
AdBlue drains round Moor Park, and Merseyside beyond
Great Crosby and Little Crosby are among the places near Moor Park, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout L postcodes. Quickest of all: give a L23 2 postcode to our van.
The vehicle stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village, a side street close to Sefton Academy of Taekwondo: our engineers drain it where it stands. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Luke's Church, Great Crosby? By a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
Moor Park people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Merseyside, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off and call 0333 366 0103.