Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Prettywood: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Prettywood. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the reasons it occurs and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels near Prettywood and Darn Hill carry, with diesel feeding your engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes.
Separate tanks, different fillers. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Rarely topped up, AdBlue usually comes from a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what cap it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Prettywood
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Bury New Road, or heading home in the car park at The Summit.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and once the tip begins, nothing stops it. Whether it occurs in Heap Bridge or the middle of Prettywood, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Whether a Prettywood forecourt or a drive out in Heady Hill, spend a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- On many cars, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark which goes in each inlet just there.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Castleton.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Bury Old Road on the verge.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, then look again — confirm the diesel cap remained shut throughout. Only then, start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Prettywood?
Short list, then. First: your motor stays off. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the vehicle on. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — EG On the Move, Texaco or another — the staff will usually help roll your car clear, when you ask. If you are on your own driveway around Prettywood, leave the car where it is.
Already started? Pull over when it is sensible, then switch off. The next exit is where to leave if you're on the M66, under a mile from Prettywood. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Prettywood is smaller work than a run of under 10 miles towards Manchester, and so say.
Prettywood: what happens when our technicians turn up
Outside Heap Bridge Village Primary School, close to St George or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, we come to it. Both the work and our price depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so our engineers ask. During the call itself, you are told the price — before dispatch.
Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, some metals are attacked, and none of it washes away on its own, however long it sits. After the fuel filter has been flushed — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then the car gets tested. Then our technicians start it and check it runs correctly before leaving.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run take roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Prettywood, for a moment
Prettywood is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 104 metres. Prettywood lies approximately 7.8 miles from Manchester and is surrounded by nearby places such as Heap Bridge, Summit, and Topping Fold. Prettywood has a population of around 1543 people and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing.
Prettywood and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Over BL postcodes, our vans that cover Prettywood — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Topping Fold and Summit included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting BL9 7.
Moving the car isn't needed. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Lomax Wood, a side street near St Margaret: our technicians drain it where it sits. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Chesham Fold Community Centre? By a border? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
For Prettywood people, the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.