Ness Holt: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page aside a moment, keep the ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Around Ness Holt, finding it before the motor turns usually means a drain and a full flush on the spot. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels around Neston, as well as Ness Holt, run on two fluids; your motor takes only the diesel. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Many of cars share a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the error happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Ness Holt?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Burton Road, or outside The Royal Oak on the way home after work.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour begins, nothing stops it. It's a few seconds, whether in Ness or right in the centre of Ness Holt.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Hinderton or a forecourt in Ness Holt.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- Can't find it next to the diesel inlet? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say where.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — at Neston's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
Wherever around Cheshire the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor off, and not in a rush beside School Lane on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, yes, but it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once that tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, pour gently using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Step five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Ness Holt?
Short list, then. Top of it: your engine remains unstarted. Leave the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help roll the car clear of the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Shell, the Gordale Petrol Station or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Ness Holt.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M53 — under 3 miles out of Ness Holt — at the first exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Ness Holt makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles to Chester — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we arrive in Ness Holt, what occurs?
Outside Woodfall Primary and Nursery School, close to Roman Coin found 1930 or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — which liquid, what quantity, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. No one sets off before you've had our quote over the phone.
Draining the tank comes next, then a full flush of your system. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. After that our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs smoothly before we go.
Unstarted cars usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Ness Holt and where it is
Ness Holt is a suburban area located on the coast of Cheshire, with an elevation of 45 metres above sea level. Ness Holt sits near the cities of Chester and Liverpool, and is close to the nearby places of Ness, Little Neston, and Burton. Ness Holt has a population of approximately 3309 people, and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Ness Holt is situated about 9 miles from Chester and 173.7 miles from London.
Ness Holt and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Ness Holt is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Little Neston and Burton among them, across the CH postcode area. Fastest of all: give a CH64 4 postcode to our van.
Moving your car isn't necessary. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Church of Michael and All Angels, a lay-by on the way to Woodfall Infants School, a drive. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Little Neston Methodist Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Ness Holt motorists: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Cheshire.