Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Shore: Why It Occurs
Stop here for a moment if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where your car stands in Shore, is normally what it takes when found before your motor runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Shore and Littleborough carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, side by side: that's the layout on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Shore
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Kinders Fold, or heading home in the car park at The King Bill.
New-to-you cars come second, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one.
No part stops the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it takes place in Clough or the middle of Shore, it is the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt in Shore or a driveway out in Gale. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- 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.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Littleborough's car park, perhaps — not when the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Greater Manchester that is.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Cote Lane.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- The two under a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel side stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly through its built-in spout.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never carry on to stage five.
Shore: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at Texaco, Shell or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the vehicle away when asked. If you are on your own driveway in Shore, leave it where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next junction is the place to come off when you are on the M62, under 3 miles from Shore. A short hop across Shore is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we arrive in Shore, what takes place?
The van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, beside St Barnabas, or by St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy. Which fluid got in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since those replies set both work and quote. During the call itself, you are told the quote — before anything else.
Then the tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. 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. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. The motor is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before we go.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Shore
Shore is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside with nearby settlements including Clough and Caldermoor. Shore has a population of around 2676 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Shore sits at an elevation of 191 metres, approximately 13 miles from Manchester and 169.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Shore, and Greater Manchester beyond
Caldermoor and Stubley are among the towns around Shore, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout OL postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a OL15 9 postcode for the van.
There's no need to shift the vehicle. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Higher Shore Wood, a side street close to St Andrew: our technicians drain the car where it stands. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Holy Trinity.
The short version for Shore drivers
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, wherever around Greater Manchester: switch it off and phone 0333 366 0103.