Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Netherton: Why It Occurs
Leave your motor and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, done right where the vehicle sits in Netherton, is usually what it needs when caught before the engine runs. Here in advance? In that case what follows explains why it happens and how to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel goes to the motor — yet many modern diesels driven round Netherton and Maryport hold a second fluid as well. 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. Many of vehicles have a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Netherton
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Sycamore Road before work, or in the car park outside Swan Inn on the way home.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: a new car.
Lastly, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip starts, nothing halts it. It's a few seconds, whether in Ellenborough or bang in the centre of Netherton.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Netherton forecourt or a driveway out in Glasson, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Check for it.
- The handbook says which it is if your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Maryport, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere around Cumbria the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and never rushed by Meadow Way at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is shut before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Leave out step five altogether.
Netherton: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Short order, then. Top of that: the motor stays off. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Shell, Essex Garage or another forecourt will usually help pushing the car clear if you ask. On your own drive in Netherton? So the car stays put.
When your engine has been run already, pull over safely and turn it off. Netherton sits under 25 miles from the M6; there, use the first exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Carlisle, under 50 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Netherton.
What happens when our engineers get there around Netherton
The van reaches your car anywhere it has come to rest — your own driveway, near All Souls' Church, or outside Netherton Infant School. Those replies determine this work and the quote, so our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. You get that price by phone, before anyone heads out.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Netherton and where it is
Netherton is a coastal suburban area in Cumbria, situated near the towns of Ellenborough and Maryport, with Kirkborough and Ewanrigg nearby. Netherton sits at a low elevation of 19 metres, looking out towards the Solway Firth. Netherton has a population of around 2366 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Netherton is located approximately 25 miles from Carlisle and 262 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cumbria, Netherton included
Over CA postcodes, our teams covering Netherton — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Ewanrigg and Kirkborough among them. Quote a postcode beginning CA15 7, and the van arrives quickest.
No need to move your car. The drain takes place right there, whether a drive, a road by Elenborough Methodist, or a layby towards Maryport (Millennium Green). Tricky to pin down, like the back of Maryport Library? Close to a border? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Netherton people
First, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Cumbria.