Waverledge: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, leave the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where the car is in Waverledge. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Not one fluid but two: that is how many modern diesels near Waverledge and Hindle Fold carry, with diesel for your engine. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
Waverledge: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a driveway off Dryden Grove before work, or in the car park at Lomax Arms on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the pour after it has started. It's seconds, whether out in Tottleworth or bang in the centre of Waverledge.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Lower Fold or a forecourt around Waverledge.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally don't.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — many motors show which goes in each inlet just there.
- The handbook says where it lives if your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Rishton? Check with whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
Anywhere in Lancashire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Hanson Street.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems daft. It works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Step five is out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Waverledge?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Morrisons, Ridings Auto Services or any other — the staff will usually help roll the car away, when you ask. If you're on your own driveway around Waverledge, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. On the M65, under 3 miles from Waverledge, that means the next junction. Distance counts — a quick hop across Waverledge makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Preston — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our engineers arrive around Waverledge, what takes place?
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, whether by Great Harwood Primary School, near Towngate Cafe or on your own drive, the van comes to it. What liquid went in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since the answers set the work and quote. You hear that quote on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your 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 that counts more here than with petrol. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Before we leave, our engineers fire it up and confirm that it's running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run need 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. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Waverledge
Waverledge is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Waverledge sits at an elevation of 122 metres, approximately 11.8 miles from Preston and 183.9 miles from London. Waverledge is close to nearby places such as Tottleworth, Great Harwood, and Edge End, and has a population of around 4927 residents.
AdBlue drains around Waverledge and across Lancashire
Waverledge is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Great Harwood and Edge End among them, across the BB postcode area. Fastest of all: quote a BB6 7 postcode to the van.
Your car remains put. Draining happens right there, be it a drive, a street by Towngate Pentecostal, or a lay-by on the way to Lee Valley Golf Driving Range. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Town_Hall.
In short, for Waverledge motorists
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere across Lancashire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same — and so leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103.