Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rock Park: Why It Happens
Keep your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, when your motor hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where the car is in Rock Park. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the ways to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many newer diesels on the roads about Rock Park and Woodhey carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
Different tanks, different fillers. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Topping up the diesel side at the pump happens constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Rock Park
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Delta Road East before work, or in the car park outside The Refreshment Rooms on the way home.
New-to-you motors are next, too. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles put their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, carries on. Rock Ferry or the heart of Rock Park: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Egerton Park or a forecourt in Rock Park.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with 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 at Rock Ferry.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere around Merseyside the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Delta Road West.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The two behind one flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Stop once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly through its own spout.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Stage five stays out.
Rock Park: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Short order, then. First: your motor remains unstarted. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Texaco or the Shell, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Rock Park.
When your motor has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe then switch the car off. Rock Park sits under 3 miles from the M53; there, use the next junction. A short hop across Rock Park is a smaller job than a run towards Liverpool, under 3 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Rock Park: what takes place when we turn up
We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Grove Street Primary School, near Saint Peter's or on your own driveway. We ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since the answers decide this work and our quote. That price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and none of it clears out unaided, however long it is left. After the filter is cleaned — or renewed, if required — fresh diesel goes in, and then your vehicle is tested. After that we fire it up and check it runs correctly before we go.
If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It's worth checking your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Rock Park
Rock Park is a suburban area located on the coast of Merseyside, near the city of Liverpool. Rock Park sits at a low elevation of around 13 metres, with views out across the Mersey Estuary. Rock Park is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with nearby areas including Rock Ferry and New Ferry. Rock Park is situated approximately 2.9 miles from Liverpool city centre, making it a popular residential location.
AdBlue drains about Rock Park, and Merseyside beyond
New Ferry and Dacre Hill are among the towns around Rock Park, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout CH postcodes. Quote a postcode that starts CH42 1, and our van gets there quickest.
No need to shift your car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St Mark's Church, a lay-by on the way to New Ferry Park, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Highfield Church.
For Rock Park drivers, the short version
First, the cap; then, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Merseyside.