Roby: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, keep your ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Roby. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the how to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Many modern diesels on the roads around Roby and Horn Smithies carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. The exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. It is in the gap that the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Roby
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Church Road before work, or in the car park at The Stanley Arms on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: an unfamiliar vehicle.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Page Moss or the middle of Roby, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Roby or a drive out in Bowring Park. A few seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many motors show which goes in each inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The previous driver will know. Ask when you pick up a rental or company car — at the nearest station's car park, say — rather than when the warning appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Wherever in Merseyside the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Grange Close.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Roby?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor stays off. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Asda, Shell or another — the staff will normally help push the vehicle away, when you ask. On your own drive in Roby? So the vehicle stays where it is.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then switch off. Roby sits under a mile from the M62; there, use the next exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Liverpool, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Roby.
What occurs when our technicians arrive in Roby
Wherever the car has stopped, whether outside St Aloysius Catholic Primary School, near St Bartholomew's or at home, our van travels to it. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. During the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. Hence it matters more. Filter cleaned or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. The engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Roby and where it is
Roby is a suburban area in Merseyside, situated near the River Alt and close to the city of Liverpool. Roby has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most common, and its elevation is around 43 metres above sea level. Roby is located near other local places, including Page Moss and Huyton with Roby, and is about 5 miles from Liverpool city centre. Roby is part of the larger urban area surrounding Liverpool, with London approximately 175 miles to the south.
AdBlue drains round Roby, and Merseyside beyond
As a residential suburb, Roby has the same vans as nearby areas — Huyton Farm, Huyton with Roby — right across L postcodes and the wider area around them. Fastest of all: give a L36 9 postcode to our van.
No need to shift the car. We drain it where it is — a side street near Roby Community Centre, a lay-by on the way to Roby Field, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of St Aloysius, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Roby people
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Merseyside.