Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Summerseat
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, when the engine hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where your car is around Summerseat. Here in advance? Then the rest covers how it happens and how to stop it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
No single liquid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near Summerseat and Brooksbottoms run, with diesel for your engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Plenty of motors share a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the mistake happens.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur in Summerseat?
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a warning from the car, and letting it run out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Rowlands Road, perhaps at Footballers Inn on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar cars are second, as well. Rentals, new cars and company cars put their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, keeps on. Wood Road or the heart of Summerseat: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Higher Summerseat or a forecourt around Summerseat.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors show which belongs in each inlet right there.
- The handbook shows where it lives when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Bromley Cross, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Greater Manchester that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Railway Street.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have located your filler and read it.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two sit under a flap, confirm it is shut before the bottle comes up.
- Finish once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the own spout.
- Only after that, start your car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Summerseat?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Esso, Shell or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle away, if you ask. If you're on your own driveway around Summerseat, leave the vehicle where it stands.
Where your engine has run already, pull over somewhere safe and switch the vehicle off. Come off the M66 — under a mile out of Summerseat — at the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Summerseat is smaller work than a run of under 15 miles to Salford, so tell us.
Our arrival around Summerseat, and what takes place next
Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Summerseat Methodist Primary School, near Holcombe Brook Tennis Club or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those replies settle the work and the quote. No one sets off until you've heard the price over the phone.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes out by itself. That is why it counts more. After the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally the vehicle gets tested. Your engine is fired up next and tested to make sure it runs properly, all before our technicians go.
Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run need about half an hour once our technicians arrive. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Summerseat and where it is
Summerseat is a small village in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 118 metres. Summerseat has a population of around 525 people and is characterized by predominantly terraced housing. Summerseat is located near other local places such as Wood Road, Rowlands, and Lower Summerseat, and is approximately 10.2 miles from the city of Salford. Summerseat sits in a scenic area, with the nearby river and surrounding countryside providing a pleasant environment.
AdBlue drains in Summerseat and across Greater Manchester
Throughout BL postcodes, the teams that cover Summerseat — a village — work the nearby places too, Lower Summerseat and Rowlands among them. Fastest of all: quote a BL9 5 postcode for our van.
The vehicle doesn't need to move. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Emmanuel Church Centre, a lay-by on the way to Brooksbottom Cricket Club, a driveway. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Christ Church? By a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
In short, for Summerseat people
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Greater Manchester, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103.