Standen Hall: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down a moment, keep the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. In Standen Hall, catching it before the motor runs normally leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Below, the rest of the page covers the why it happens and the ways to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
No single liquid but two: that is what many modern diesels near Standen Hall and Low Moor run, with diesel for the engine. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the gas to clean it, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for each tank. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have the two side by side under one flap. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler to use. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Standen Hall: how it takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Higher Standen Drive before work, or in the car park outside Brown Cow on the way home.
New-to-you motors are second, as well. Rentals, new cars and company motors put their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after started, carries on. Primrose or the heart of Standen Hall: it is the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt around Standen Hall or a drive over in Pimlico. A few seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Look for it.
- 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.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you pick up a hire car or company car — from Clitheroe's car park, say — rather than once the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Lancashire that is.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed by Broadfield Street at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, yet it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once that tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently using the own spout.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and check again that your diesel cap never came off.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Leave out step five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Standen Hall?
Brief order, then. Top of that: the engine remains unstarted. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Esso, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive around Standen Hall, leave the vehicle where it stands.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Come off the M65 — under 10 miles out of Standen Hall — at the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Preston, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Standen Hall.
When we get there around Standen Hall, what takes place?
Anywhere your car came to rest, be it by St James' Church of England Primary School, Clitheroe, near Saint James or at home, our van comes to it. Which fluid got in, the amount, and whether it ran: our engineers ask since those answers decide both work and price. That quote comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of it clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. Once your filter is flushed — or replaced, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then your vehicle gets tested. The motor is started next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers go.
Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once we get there, as long as your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Standen Hall, for a moment
Standen Hall is a locality in Lancashire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 97 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Standen Hall lies near the cities of Preston and Clitheroe, and the smaller communities of Primrose and Pendleton. Standen Hall is located in the North West region of England, approximately 188 miles from London. Standen Hall has a population of around 729 residents.
AdBlue drains in Standen Hall and across Lancashire
Standen Hall is a small village, and the teams that cover it also work the places near it, Pendleton and Clitheroe among them, across the BB postcode area. A postcode starting BB7 1 gets the van to you fastest.
Shifting the car is not necessary. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Owl, a lay-by on the way to Sports Fields, a drive. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of British Legion.
The short version for Standen Hall people
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Lancashire.