How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Wistaston Green
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. In Wistaston Green, finding it before your motor runs normally leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the why it takes place and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels around Wistaston, like those in Wistaston Green, carry on two liquids; your engine takes just the diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Other cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together behind one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
Wistaston Green: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Moreton Road before work, or in the car park outside The Woodside on the way home.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches 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, so nothing stops the tip once it has started. It's seconds, be it out in The Valley or right in the centre of Wistaston Green.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Check these first, on a forecourt in Wistaston Green or a driveway out in Woolstanwood. A few seconds, no more.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: many motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check when you collect a rental or fleet car — from Crewe's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light appears.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the light appears — anywhere it is around Cheshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Wistaston Green Road.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read it.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Finish when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Before you start the car, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Wistaston Green?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at BP, Esso or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the vehicle clear when asked. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Wistaston Green.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Come off the M6 — under 10 miles out of Wistaston Green — at the next junction. Mileage matters — a short hop across Wistaston Green makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles towards Stoke-on-Trent — so tell us about how far it went.
What occurs when our engineers get there around Wistaston Green
Anywhere the car has stopped, whether by Wistaston Academy, beside Wistaston Memorial Hall or on your own drive, the van comes to it. Both the work and our price rest on three answers — what liquid, which amount, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. You hear that price by phone, before anybody heads out.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. Filter cleaned or, where it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
Unstarted vehicles usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Wistaston Green and where it is
Wistaston Green is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated near the River Dane and characterised by semi-detached housing. Wistaston Green sits at an elevation of around 50 metres, with nearby places including The Valley, Wells Green, and Marshfield Bank. Wistaston Green is located approximately 13 miles from Stoke-on-Trent and 147 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location. Wistaston Green has a population of around 6408 residents.
Wistaston Green and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Wells Green and Marshfield Bank are among the towns around Wistaston Green, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over CW postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting CW2 8.
There's no need to shift the car. Wherever it stands — near War Memorial, on a lay-by heading to Joey the Swan, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of All Saints Parish Church, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Wistaston Green people: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Cheshire.