AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wath Brow: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if the motor hasn't run, it is emptied and fully rinsed where the vehicle is around Wath Brow. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Diesel feeds your engine — yet many modern diesels driven around Wath Brow and Moor Row carry a second liquid as well. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of vehicles have a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler to use. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Wath Brow: how it takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue triggers a message from the car, and running out means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Roper Street, or at Little Arms on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors are next, too. Rentals, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, carries on. Whether it takes place in Cleator Moor or the middle of Wath Brow, it's the same few seconds.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Wath Brow forecourt or a drive over in Rheda Park, take a couple of seconds over these before any goes in.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually are not.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- Cannot see it next to your diesel inlet? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook says where.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Corkickle.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Cumbria that is.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Trumpet Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Shut the cap, and check once more — confirm your diesel cap remained shut the whole time. After that, start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Skip stage five altogether.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Wath Brow already?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Keep the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Crossfields or the Texaco, ask the staff to help push the car away from the petrol pump. At home around Wath Brow? So your car remains put.
Already started? Stop once it's safe, then switch off. On the M6, under 50 miles from Wath Brow, that means the next exit. Mileage matters — a quick hop across Wath Brow is a smaller job than driving under 50 miles to Carlisle — so say roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Wath Brow, and what happens next
Wherever the car has stopped, whether by Montreal CofE Primary School, beside Wath Brow Hornets or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if it's run, because the answers determine this work and the price. On the phone call itself, you are told our price — ahead of dispatch.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Next our engineers start the engine and check it runs smoothly before leaving.
If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. It is worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Wath Brow, briefly
Wath Brow is a locality situated on the riverside in Cumbria, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Wath Brow lies near the towns of Cleator Moor and Cleator, and is approximately 34 miles from Carlisle. Wath Brow has a population of around 2388 people and is located at an elevation of 86 metres. Wath Brow is part of the wider North West region, about 251 miles from London.
Wath Brow and Cumbria: AdBlue drains across the area
Wath Brow is a small village, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Parkside and Cleator among them, across the CA postcode area. Fastest of all: quote a CA23 3 postcode to our van.
No need to shift your car. We drain it where it is — a side street near St Mary's Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Bighill Community Park (Millennium Green), a driveway. Tricky to explain, like the back of Cleator Moor Library? By a border? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
Wath Brow motorists: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it is, anywhere around Cumbria: switch it off then ring 0333 366 0103.