AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tuebrook: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page down a moment, leave the ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done just where the vehicle sits around Tuebrook, is normally all it takes when caught before your motor runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it takes place and the ways to prevent it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds your motor — yet many modern diesels driven about Tuebrook and Tillerman Court hold a second fluid too. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together under one flap. Diesel goes in at every filling station call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is topped up far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
Tuebrook: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off West Derby Road, or heading home in the car park outside The Flat House.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second factor: a strange car.
A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, after begun, carries on. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Clubmoor or right in the heart of Tuebrook.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Tuebrook or a driveway over in Sandfield Park. Seconds, no more.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Wavertree Technology Park? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
For the day the warning appears — anywhere you are around Merseyside — a simple routine to use.
- Not in a rush on the side of Lisburn Lane, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It works.
- Both behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on the diesel filler stays shut before raising the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Stage five is out.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Tuebrook?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels it by itself runs your fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the EG On the Move or the Esso, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump. If you're on your own drive around Tuebrook, leave the car where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. Tuebrook lies under 3 miles from the M62; on it, use the first exit. A short hop across Tuebrook is a smaller job than a run towards Liverpool, under 3 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Tuebrook: what takes place when we get there
Outside Lister Infant and Nursery School, near St John the Baptist Cof E Church or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those answers determine the work and our price. During the call itself, you are told the quote — before anything else.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away by itself. That is why it counts more. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Before we leave, we start it and confirm that it's running smoothly.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run take roughly half an hour once we are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Tuebrook itself
Tuebrook is a suburban area in Merseyside, situated approximately 2.4 miles from Liverpool city centre, with Tuebrook being part of the larger Liverpool urban area. Tuebrook sits at an elevation of around 40 metres, with Tuebrook's proximity to the coast influencing its climate and geography. Tuebrook is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, with Tuebrook being a relatively densely populated area, home to around 9997 people.
AdBlue drains in Tuebrook and across Merseyside
Tuebrook is a residential suburb, and our vans that cover it also work the places around it, Stoneycroft and Stanley among them, across the L postcode area. A postcode starting L13 7 gets our van to you fastest.
The car remains where it is. Anywhere it stands — beside St Cecilia's Catholic Church, in a lay-by heading to Bankfield Park, at home — that is where it is drained. Assuming won't help at the back of Tuebrook Market, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
In short, for Tuebrook people
Always, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Merseyside, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.