Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Hall Hey: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where your car sits around New Hall Hey, is usually what it needs when caught before your motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel feeds your motor — but many modern diesels seen about New Hall Hey and Rawtenstall hold a second fluid too. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from its own tank.
There is a filler for every tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake happens.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in New Hall Hey: how it takes place
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Swanney Lodge Road, or heading home in the car park outside The Old Cobblers Inn.
Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of New Hall Hey or out in Longholme.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these first, at a forecourt in New Hall Hey or a drive over in Oakenhead Wood. A few seconds, no more.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark what belongs in which inlet right there.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? Then look beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Accrington, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Lancashire that is.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, engine off, and never rushed by New Hall Hey 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.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around New Hall Hey?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
On a forecourt — Shell, Tesco or any other — the attendants will usually help roll the vehicle away, if you ask. Your own drive in New Hall Hey is where it stays.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M66 — under 3 miles out of New Hall Hey — at the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Salford, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across New Hall Hey.
When our technicians get there around New Hall Hey, what takes place?
Our technicians come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School, near TK Maxx or on your own drive. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — which liquid, what quantity, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. During the phone call itself, you hear the quote — before anything else.
Then your tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and nothing washes away unaided, no matter how long it is left. After the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — clean diesel goes in, and finally the car gets tested. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and check that it is running correctly.
If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are 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 that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About New Hall Hey
New Hall Hey is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with nearby places including Longholme, Hall Carr, and Wood Top. New Hall Hey has a population of around 4363 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. New Hall Hey sits at an elevation of 163 metres, approximately 15 miles from Salford and 176.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around New Hall Hey and across Lancashire
Hall Carr and Wood Top are among the places near New Hall Hey, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over BB postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a BB4 6 postcode to our van.
Your car stays where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to The Whitaker, a lay-by on the way to Stacksteads Cricket Club, a drive. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Rawtenstall Library? Close to a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
For New Hall Hey motorists, the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, wherever around Lancashire: switch the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.