AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in New Horwich: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, carried out right where the car sits in New Horwich, is usually what it needs if found before the motor runs. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — handy if you're reading before it has happened.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels on the roads round New Horwich and Dowry carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many motors. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens constantly. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around New Horwich: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Rock Bank before work, or in the car park at The Cock on the way home.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Over Leigh or the heart of New Horwich: it takes the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Taxal or a forecourt in New Horwich, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- On plenty of cars, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Whaley Bridge? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
When the light goes on, wherever in Derbyshire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Old Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park then switch off first.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located the filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Never carry on to stage five.
New Horwich: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Short order, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so leave it off. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the New Mills Marina Diesel Pump, ask the attendants to help push your car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive in New Horwich, leave the car where it is.
Already started? Stop when it's sensible, then switch off. The next junction is the place to come off if you are on the M60, under 10 miles from New Horwich. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across New Horwich is smaller a job than a run of under 25 miles towards Manchester, and so say.
Our arrival in New Horwich, and what takes place next
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Whaley Bridge Primary School, close to Holy Trinity or on your own driveway. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which liquid, what quantity, and if it has run — so our engineers ask. That quote is given over the phone, before any van leaves.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that washes away unaided, no matter how long it sits. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. The engine is started next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before we go.
Unstarted cars mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About New Horwich
New Horwich is a suburban area situated on the edge of a lake in Derbyshire, with a mix of terraced housing and a relatively small population of around 2711 residents. New Horwich sits at an elevation of 184 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby towns such as Whaley Bridge and Horwich End. New Horwich is located near the border with Greater Manchester, close to the city of Manchester, and is about 147.9 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains around New Horwich, and Derbyshire beyond
Throughout SK postcodes, our teams covering New Horwich — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Whaley Bridge and Horwich End included. Quote a postcode beginning SK23 7, and our van gets there quickest.
Moving the vehicle isn't needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Memorial Park, a side street close to Good News Church: our engineers drain it where it stands. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Whaley Bridge Cricket Club? By a border? Checking is better than assuming, so ring.
The short version for New Horwich motorists
First, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere around Derbyshire.