Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Norbury Moor: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Around Norbury Moor, finding it before your engine runs usually leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. Reading before the event? Then what follows covers why it happens and what to stop it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Norbury Moor and Stepping Hill carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
There's a filler for each tank. Many of cars share a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which cap to use. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
Norbury Moor: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Chester Road before work, or in the car park at The Fiveways on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a strange car.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the pour once it has started. It takes seconds, whether in Hazel Grove or bang in the centre of Norbury Moor.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Woods Moor or a forecourt around Norbury Moor.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it is if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before knows. Ask when you collect a rental or company car — at Hazel Grove's car park, perhaps — not once the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever you are in Greater Manchester — a routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Lyndhurst Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- Both behind one flap? Then make sure the lid on the diesel side stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel cap remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Norbury Moor?
Don't start your motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the BP, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the petrol pump. On your own drive around Norbury Moor? So the vehicle remains where it is.
When your engine has run by now, stop safely then turn it off. Norbury Moor lies under 5 miles from the M60; there, take the first exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Manchester, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Norbury Moor.
What takes place when we arrive in Norbury Moor
Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Norbury Hall Primary School, close to Norbury Cricket and Lacrosse Club or on your own drive. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. Nobody heads out until you've had our quote by phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after that tank is cleared. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. The engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers leave.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our engineers are there. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Norbury Moor
Norbury Moor is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated approximately 8.9 miles southeast of Manchester city centre. Norbury Moor sits at an elevation of around 90 metres, in a gently undulating landscape characteristic of this part of the North West. Norbury Moor is predominantly composed of semi-detached housing, with nearby places including Hazel Grove, Bramhall Moor, and Torkington.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Norbury Moor included
Bramhall Moor and Torkington are among the places near Norbury Moor, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout SK postcodes. A postcode starting SK7 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Your car stays where it is. Anywhere it sits — beside Hazel Grove Cricket Club, in a layby en route to Devonshire Park, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Assuming won't help at the back of Norbury Church, on a border, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for Norbury Moor drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Greater Manchester.