Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rose Bridge
Keep the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. In Rose Bridge, finding it before your motor runs usually means draining and a thorough flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels around Ince-in-Makerfield, as well as Rose Bridge, carry on two fluids; the engine gets just your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. 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 petrol pump goes on all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Rose Bridge
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the vehicle, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — so a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Caroline Street, perhaps outside The Crispin Arms on the way home after work.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Higher Ince or the middle of Rose Bridge: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Rose Bridge forecourt or a drive out in Longshoot, spend a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- On plenty of cars, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it beside your diesel inlet? In that case look below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Ince? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
Wherever in Greater Manchester the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Holt Street, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Skip stage five entirely.
Rose Bridge: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where the fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at BP, Tesco or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car away when asked. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Rose Bridge.
Where your engine has run already, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. On the Bryn Spur, under 3 miles from Rose Bridge, that means the next exit. A short hop across Rose Bridge is a smaller job than a run towards Salford, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Rose Bridge, and what takes place next
By St Catharine's CofE Primary School, near Rose Bridge Arch Scupture or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. No one heads out until you've heard the quote over the phone.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Before leaving, our technicians start it and confirm that it is running smoothly.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your motor has not run need roughly half an hour once we are there. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Rose Bridge itself
Rose Bridge is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Douglas and close to the communities of Higher Ince and Scholes. Rose Bridge has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Rose Bridge is located at a relatively low elevation of 49 metres above sea level, near the urban centre of Salford. Rose Bridge forms part of the wider residential landscape around Salford and Manchester.
AdBlue drains around Rose Bridge and across Greater Manchester
As a residential suburb, Rose Bridge has the same vans as surrounding places — Scholes, Lakes Terrace — right through WN postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Quote a postcode that starts WN1 3, and our van gets there quickest.
Moving your car is not necessary. We drain it where it is — a side street near Ince Independent Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Canal Terrace, a drive. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Golden Balls, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Rose Bridge people: the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103.