Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Sutton Lane Ends: Why It Happens
Keep the engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Sutton Lane Ends. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Sutton Lane Ends and Moss Lane carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. The exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which filler to use. It's in the gap that the slip happens.
Sutton Lane Ends: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Hall Lane before work, or in the car park at Church House on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a hire car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the pour starts, no part stops it. Whether it occurs in Gurnett or the middle of Sutton Lane Ends, it is the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Oakgrove or a forecourt around Sutton Lane Ends.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Macclesfield? Ask the person who drove it last before you set off, rather than when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Anywhere around Cheshire the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Walker Lane, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- The two behind a single flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Do not go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Sutton Lane Ends?
Short list, then. First: the motor remains off. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Filling up with diesel won't weaken it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Shell or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the pump. At home around Sutton Lane Ends? Then the vehicle remains put.
When your engine has run already, stop safely then switch it off. Sutton Lane Ends sits under 15 miles from the M56; there, take the next junction. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Sutton Lane Ends is a smaller job than heading under 25 miles towards Stoke-on-Trent — so say roughly how far it went.
When our technicians get there in Sutton Lane Ends, what happens?
Anywhere your car has stopped, be it by Hollinhey Primary School, beside Sutton Ex-Servicemen's Club Village Hall or on your own drive, the van comes to it. What liquid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask since those answers set the work and quote. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel 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, so it does not wash out on its own. A test comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is cleaned or changed as needed. We don't leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour once our engineers arrive. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to check yours.
About Sutton Lane Ends and where it is
Sutton Lane Ends is a village in Cheshire, situated near the River Dane and surrounded by rural landscapes. Sutton Lane Ends has a mix of old and new housing, with detached homes being the predominant type, and is located near several small settlements including Gurnett and Langley. Sutton Lane Ends sits at an elevation of 174 metres, giving it a relatively high vantage point in the area. Sutton Lane Ends is close to the city of Stoke-on-Trent, which is approximately 15 miles away.
Sutton Lane Ends and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Sutton Lane Ends is a village, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, Langley and Lyme Green among them, across the SK postcode area. A postcode starting SK11 0 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St James C of E Church, a lay-by on the way to Hollinhey Wood, a drive. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Langley Village Hall.
Sutton Lane Ends people: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere across Cheshire: keep the car off and call 0333 366 0103.