AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in The Railway Sidings: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Around The Railway Sidings, finding it before your motor turns normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the reasons it happens and the how to prevent it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your engine — but many current diesels driven round The Railway Sidings and Hyde carry another liquid as well. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
There's a filler on every tank. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two side by side under one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in The Railway Sidings: how it takes place
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a drive off Hopkins Street before work, or in the car park outside The Railway on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Godley or the middle of The Railway Sidings: it takes the same few seconds in both.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt around The Railway Sidings or a driveway over in Kingston. A few seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Newton for Hyde, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever in Greater Manchester the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Commercial Brow.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It does the trick.
- Both behind one flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel side is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Do not go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around The Railway Sidings?
Short order, then. Top of that: your engine stays unstarted. Don't switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, just where fuel is taken from.
At a forecourt — Morrisons, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help roll your car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in The Railway Sidings.
Where the engine has run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch it off. The next exit is the place to come off when you are on the M67, under a mile from The Railway Sidings. A short hop across The Railway Sidings is a smaller job than a run towards Manchester, under 10 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around The Railway Sidings, and what occurs next
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside St. Paul's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, beside St John the Baptist or on your own drive, the van comes to it. The answers decide the work and the quote, so we ask what was put in, about how much, and whether it has run. The price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Then your tank is cleared 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. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. After that we fire it up and check it runs properly before leaving.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine hasn't run take about half an hour after our technicians arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About The Railway Sidings itself
The Railway Sidings is a locality in Greater Manchester, situated on the riverside at an elevation of around 125 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation. The Railway Sidings is located near several other places, including Godley, Flowery Field, and Newton, and is approximately 7.4 miles from Manchester. The Railway Sidings has a population of around 3387 people, and its proximity to Manchester makes it a commuter-friendly area. The Railway Sidings is also relatively close to the national motorway network, with London being around 157.5 miles away.
AdBlue drains about The Railway Sidings, and Greater Manchester beyond
Being a small village, The Railway Sidings shares its vans surrounding places — Flowery Field, Newton — right through SK postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting SK14 2 gets the van to you fastest.
The car does not need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Garden Street Playing Fields, a side street close to St Thomas: our technicians drain the car where it stands. Assuming won't help behind Ewen Fields, on a border, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
In short, for The Railway Sidings motorists
Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere around Greater Manchester.