Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Waterloo Park: Why It Occurs
Keep the engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, if your engine has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your vehicle sits in Waterloo Park. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the why it happens and the how to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Waterloo Park and Great Crosby carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Many of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. It's in the gap that the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Waterloo Park: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Kingswood Avenue before work, or in the car park at The Old Tap heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as easily, and once the pour starts, nothing stops it. Whether it happens in Crosby or the middle of Waterloo Park, it's the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Litherland or a forecourt in Waterloo Park.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Many motors give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it is if the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Waterloo (Merseyside), ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Wherever in Merseyside the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside Middleton Road at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. When both sit under a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Finish once the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, tip gently through the built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, then look once more — making sure the diesel cap stayed shut throughout. Only then, start your car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Skip step five entirely.
Waterloo Park: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The short order of things, beginning with not starting your engine. Keep your ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on by itself runs the pump. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom instead of mixing — and that is where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Shell, the Texaco or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive around Waterloo Park, leave the car where it is.
Where the engine has run by now, stop safely then switch the vehicle off. Come off the M57 — under 3 miles out of Waterloo Park — at the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Waterloo Park is smaller a job than a trip of under 10 miles towards Liverpool, so tell us.
Waterloo Park: what happens when we arrive
Wherever your car has stopped, be it by Waterloo Primary School, beside Waterloo United Free Church or on your own drive, the van travels to it. What fluid went in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since those replies decide the work and price. That price is given on the call, before any van leaves.
Then your tank is drained and the 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, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. After that our technicians start the engine and make sure it runs smoothly before we leave.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once we arrive, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Waterloo Park, for a moment
Waterloo Park is a coastal locality in Merseyside, situated near the cities of Liverpool and Crosby. Waterloo Park sits at a low elevation of around 13 metres, close to the shores of the Irish Sea. Waterloo Park is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's historical development as a residential suburb of Liverpool.
AdBlue drains around Waterloo Park, and Merseyside beyond
Waterloo Park is a coastal area, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Waterloo and Seaforth among them, across the L postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning L22 4, and the van arrives quickest.
Your car remains put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Crosby Library, a lay-by on the way to Victoria Park, a drive. Assuming doesn't help at the back of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, close to a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; phone and check.
For Waterloo Park people, the short version
Tip no AdBlue until you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Merseyside, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — so leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103.