AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Moses Gate: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It
Pause reading a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Moses Gate. Reading in advance? In that case the rest covers how it comes about and how to prevent it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel feeds the engine — yet plenty of modern diesels seen about Moses Gate and Burnden carry a second liquid as well. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Every tank has a filler of its own. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Moses Gate
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
Hurry follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Phethean Street, or on the way home in the car park outside The Railway.
Unfamiliar vehicles are second, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. Whether it happens in Farnworth or the middle of Moses Gate, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Great Lever or a forecourt in Moses Gate, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside the nearest station? Ask the person who drove the car last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever around Greater Manchester the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Merrion Street.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it is closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Don't go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Moses Gate?
Short list, then. Top of that: the engine remains unstarted. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Shell, the Gulf or anywhere else. At home around Moses Gate? Then the vehicle remains where it is.
Already run? Stop when it's sensible, then switch off. The next exit means the place to come off when you are on the St. Peter's Way, under a mile from Moses Gate. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Moses Gate is smaller work than a trip of under 10 miles towards Salford, and so tell us.
What happens when our engineers get there in Moses Gate
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, be it outside All Saints CofE Primary School, near Sughra Mosque or at home, the van comes to it. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — what liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. During the call itself, you are told our price — before anything else.
Then your tank is emptied and your system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. We do not go until it has been started and is running properly.
If the engine has not 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. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Moses Gate and where it is
Moses Gate is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the lakeside and approximately 94 metres above sea level. Moses Gate is located near several nearby places, including Farnworth, Harper Green, and Dixon Green, and is about 6.8 miles from Salford. Moses Gate has a population of around 5683 people and predominantly features terraced housing. Moses Gate is also relatively far from London, at a distance of 170.7 miles.
AdBlue drains about Moses Gate, and Greater Manchester beyond
Moses Gate is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Harper Green and Dixon Green among them, across the BL postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting BL4 7.
The vehicle stays put. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Central Library Farnworth, a lay-by on the way to Farnworth Park, a driveway. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Farnworth Baptist Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Moses Gate motorists
Tip nothing until you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Greater Manchester.