How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Mossley Cross
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Mossley Cross. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Mossley Cross and Mossley Brow carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Mossley Cross?
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Broadcarr Lane, or at The Billy Goat on the way home after work.
Unfamiliar cars are second, too. Rentals, new motors and company cars put their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Fox Platt or the middle of Mossley Cross, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these first, at a forecourt in Mossley Cross or a driveway out in Brook Bottom. Seconds, that's all.
- 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.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it is if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Mossley (Manchester).
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Greater Manchester that is.
- Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside Mossley Road on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently using its own spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Mossley Cross?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your motor. Keep the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Texaco or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. If you are on your own driveway around Mossley Cross, leave the car where it stands.
Where your engine has been run by now, stop somewhere safe and turn the car off. Mossley Cross sits under 5 miles from the M60; there, take the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Manchester, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Mossley Cross.
What occurs when we get there in Mossley Cross
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside St George's CofE Primary School, close to Mossley Parish Church or on your own driveway. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — what liquid, what amount, and whether it has run — so we ask. You get that price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is drained and your system flushed thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out on its own, however long it sits. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or changed if necessary. The engine is started next and tested to make sure it runs smoothly, all before we leave.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we get there, as long as the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Mossley Cross itself
Mossley Cross is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Tame and close to the Pennine foothills. Mossley Cross sits at an elevation of 241 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and the nearby towns of Mossley and Fox Platt. Mossley Cross is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's history of industrial and residential development.
AdBlue drains around Mossley Cross and across Greater Manchester
Mossley Cross is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Mossley and Hartshead Pike among them, across the OL postcode area. Give a postcode beginning OL5 0, and our van gets there fastest.
No need to shift the vehicle. We drain it where it is — a side street near Mossley Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Mossley Park, a drive. Guessing won't help behind Seel Park, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
In short, for Mossley Cross motorists
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it stands, wherever around Greater Manchester: switch it off then call 0333 366 0103.