Tattenhall: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103. Around Tattenhall, finding it before the motor turns normally means a drain and a full flush on the spot. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's what plenty of modern diesels around Tattenhall and Gatesheath run, with diesel for the motor. Its own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Tattenhall: how it happens
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off High Street, perhaps outside Bear and Ragged Staff on the way home after work.
The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second factor: a new motor.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in just as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. It's a few seconds, be it in Newtown or right in the heart of Tattenhall.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Chowley or a forecourt in Tattenhall, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Chester, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light appears — anywhere you are around Cheshire — a routine to use.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, motor stopped, and never in a rush by Old Mill Place at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap remains on. When both sit under a flap, confirm it's shut before lifting the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap, then look once more — confirm the diesel filler stayed shut throughout. After that, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five is out.
Tattenhall: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting the engine. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so keep it off. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the Gulf or the another forecourt nearby, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle clear of the petrol pump. Your own drive around Tattenhall is the place it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit is the place to leave if you are on the M53, under 10 miles from Tattenhall. Distance counts — a quick hop across Tattenhall makes a smaller job than heading under 10 miles to Chester — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Tattenhall, and what occurs next
Outside Tattenhall Park Primary School, close to Fetch or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Those replies decide this work and the price, and so we ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run. Nobody heads out until you have heard our price by phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, after the tank is drained. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears away on its own, however long it is left. The filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of your vehicle. After that we fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before we leave.
If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours.
About Tattenhall
Tattenhall is a village in Cheshire, situated on the banks of the River Gowy at an elevation of around 32 metres. Tattenhall lies approximately 7 miles south of Chester and is surrounded by other small settlements such as Newtown and Handley. Tattenhall has a population of around 1262 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Tattenhall is located in the North West region of England, about 157.7 miles from London.
AdBlue drains about Tattenhall, and Cheshire beyond
Handley and Newton are among the places around Tattenhall, a village, that the same teams cover, over CH postcodes. Fastest of all: quote a CH3 9 postcode for the van.
The vehicle stays where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to St Alban's Church, a lay-by on the way to The Spinney, a driveway. Assuming won't help behind Tattenhall Library, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Tattenhall motorists
Before you tip, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Cheshire.