AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Over Leigh: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Leave the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Normally, when your motor hasn't run, it's drained and thoroughly purged where the car sits around Over Leigh. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page covers the why it occurs and the how to avoid it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Diesel goes to the motor — but many current diesels driven about Over Leigh and Whaley Bridge carry another liquid as well. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the fumes.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that is the layout on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Over Leigh
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up together.
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 drive off Eccles Road before work, or in the car park at Drum and Monkey on the way home.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: a new vehicle.
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 after it has started. It takes seconds, whether in Horwich End or bang in the centre of Over Leigh.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Taxal or a forecourt around Over Leigh.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Look for it.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Ask as you collect a hire car or company car — at Whaley Bridge's car park, say — rather than when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
The day the light goes on, anywhere in Derbyshire, use this routine.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Walters Wood.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Stage five is out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Over Leigh?
Do not start the engine: that's where the short order of things begins. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Tesco, the Morrisons or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Over Leigh.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit is the place to leave if you are on the M60, under 10 miles from Over Leigh. A short hop across Over Leigh is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our technicians arrive around Over Leigh, what takes place?
Outside Whaley Bridge Primary School, close to 1st Taxal Scout Group or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our technicians ask what got in, about how much, and whether it has run, since the replies decide this work and the price. That price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Draining the tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit after arrival. The kit is fine on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. The insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Over Leigh and where it is
Over Leigh is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated on the riverside with a mix of terraced housing. Over Leigh sits at an elevation of 199 metres, close to nearby places such as Horwich End and New Horwich. Over Leigh is located near the city of Manchester, approximately 15.5 miles away, and is part of the wider East Midlands region. Over Leigh has a population of around 1774 residents.
Over Leigh and Derbyshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Over Leigh has the same vans as nearby areas — New Horwich, Dowry — all the way through SK postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting SK23 7 gets the van to you fastest.
Moving the car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Memorial Park, a side street close to Good News Church: our technicians drain the car where it stands. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Whaley Bridge Cricket Club, on a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
Over Leigh motorists: the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Derbyshire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.