Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Nethertown: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly flushed where the vehicle sits around Nethertown. 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?
Not one liquid but two: that's what many newer diesels near Nethertown and Whalley Banks carry, with diesel for the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
There is a filler on every tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many cars. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think what filler it needs. It's in the gap that the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Nethertown: how it happens
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off Calderstones Drive before work, or in the car park outside De Lacy Arms heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — because a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Third, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and once the tip starts, no part stops it. It's a few seconds, be it out in Whalley or right in the centre of Nethertown.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these first, on a forecourt in Nethertown or a driveway out in Great Mitton. A few seconds, that's all.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask when you collect a hire car or company car — from Whalley's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lancashire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Nethertown Gardens.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located the filler and read it.
- Leave the 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, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Never go on to step five.
Nethertown: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Don't start the engine: that is where the short order of things starts. Keep your ignition off as well, because on plenty of diesels switching it on by itself runs the pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Asda, the Gulf or somewhere else. On your own drive around Nethertown? So the car remains put.
Where your motor has run by now, stop safely and switch the car off. Nethertown lies under 5 miles from the M65; there, take the first junction. A short hop across Nethertown is a smaller job than a run towards Preston, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians get there around Nethertown, what happens?
Wherever the car has stopped, be it by Whalley Church of England Primary School, beside Calderstones Bell or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run, since the replies decide this work and the quote. Nobody sets off before you have heard our price by phone.
Draining the tank comes next, then a full flush of your system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after our technicians get there, provided the motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Nethertown
Nethertown is a village in Lancashire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 64 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Nethertown lies near the cities of Preston and the surrounding villages of Whalley, Barrow, and Billington, in the North West region of England. Nethertown has a population of approximately 1231 residents and is located 12.4 miles from Preston. Nethertown is also relatively distant from London, at 186.9 miles away.
Nethertown and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Nethertown is a village, and our vans that cover it also work the places near it, Barrow and Billington among them, across the BB postcode area. Quickest of all: give a BB7 9 postcode for our van.
The car stays put. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Whalley Library, a lay-by on the way to Whalley Community Forest Garden, a drive. Awkward to explain, like the back of Forge Corner? Close to a county line? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Nethertown drivers
First, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Lancashire.