Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Souracre: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, keep your ignition and engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. In Souracre, finding it before the engine turns usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Diesel goes to the motor — yet plenty of modern diesels driven about Souracre and Heyrod carry another fluid as well. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of motors share a single flap for both, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Souracre: how it occurs
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 gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Souracre Fold, or heading home in the car park at The Reindeer Inn.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: an unfamiliar motor.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip starts, no part halts it. Far Souracre or the heart of Souracre: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Souracre forecourt or a drive out in Cocker Hill, take a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you pick up a hire car or company car — at Stalybridge's car park, perhaps — rather than once the warning comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are in Greater Manchester — a simple routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Wakefield Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Finish once the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly through its built-in spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Step five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Souracre already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. Leave your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it alone starts your fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at Texaco, Esso or another forecourt will normally help pushing your car away when asked. If you're on your own drive around Souracre, leave it where it sits.
When your engine has been run already, stop somewhere safe then switch the car off. The next exit means where to leave if you're on the M67, under 3 miles from Souracre. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Manchester, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Souracre.
Our arrival around Souracre, and what occurs next
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside St Paul's CofE Primary School, Stalybridge, near Heyrod Village Hall or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those replies decide this work and the quote. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. The filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. The motor is fired up next and checked to be sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour after our technicians get there, provided the motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Souracre itself
Souracre is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Greater Manchester, with an elevation of around 135 metres. Souracre lies approximately 8 miles from Manchester city centre and is part of the larger North West England region. Souracre has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most predominant. Souracre is close to other nearby places such as Far Souracre, Ridge Hill, and Spindle Point.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Souracre included
Over SK postcodes, our vans that cover Souracre — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Spindle Point and Ridge Hill among them. Fastest of all: quote a SK15 3 postcode to our van.
The vehicle stays where it is. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Primrose Wood, a side street close to Saint Paul's Parish Church: our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Guessing won't help at the back of Copley Leisure Centre, on a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
Souracre people: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it where it is, anywhere around Greater Manchester: keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.