Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Shaw: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when the motor hasn't turned, it is emptied and thoroughly rinsed where the vehicle sits in Shaw. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it happens and what to prevent it ever happening.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — but many modern diesels seen about Shaw and Higher Dinting carry another fluid as well. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
There's a filler on each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
Shaw: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
On a drive off Dinting Road before work, or in the car park outside The Chieftain heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you cars are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company cars place their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap it 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 after it has started. It's seconds, whether in Brookfield or bang in the heart of Shaw.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Shaw or a driveway over in Dinting Vale. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many cars say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it beside the diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Whoever had it before knows. Ask as you pick up a rental or company car — at Dinting's car park, say — rather than when the warning comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Wherever around Derbyshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of The Shaw, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- Both behind one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side is still closed before lifting the bottle.
- Finish when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly through its own spout.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Shaw?
Do not start your engine: that's how the short order of things begins. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it alone starts the pump. Diluting it with more diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — BP, Tesco or another — the staff will usually help roll the car clear, if you ask. On your own drive around Shaw? So your car stays where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Leave the M67 — under 3 miles out of Shaw — at the first junction. Distance matters — a quick hop across Shaw is a smaller job than heading under 15 miles towards Manchester — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Shaw, and what happens next
Outside Dinting Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, near Bishop Geoffrey Allen Church or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, we come to it. The replies determine this work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. That quote is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
The system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is drained. 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 does not wash out on its own. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced as needed. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after we get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Shaw
Shaw is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 144 metres. Shaw lies approximately 11 miles from Manchester and 155 miles from London, with nearby places including Brookfield, Shepley Street, and Gamesley. Shaw has a population of around 3100 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Shaw is characterized by its residential community and proximity to the river.
AdBlue drains round Shaw, and Derbyshire beyond
Throughout SK postcodes, the teams covering Shaw — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Gamesley and Shepley Street included. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SK13 2.
No need to shift your car. The drain takes place right there, be it a drive, a road near Melandra Castle, or a layby towards Hadfield St Andrews Cricket Club. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Holy Trinity? By a county line? Checking beats guessing, so phone.
The short version for Shaw people
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave it off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Derbyshire.