AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Abbots Meads: What Now?
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your motor has been started since. Over in Newtown or right in Abbots Meads, an unstarted motor must stay that way. Leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Abbots Meads. Pull over the minute it is safe and switch off, if it has already run. It's a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Further down: the cases our technicians see, anywhere around Cheshire. Choose the one that fits.
At the pump in Abbots Meads: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: standing by the pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the filler you took off wasn't the right one. Anywhere in Abbots Meads, then — Esso, Texaco, or somewhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. No pump has drawn it through, and so the AdBlue sits only inside your tank.
Clearing the pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away gets emptied right at the petrol pump.
Abbots Meads, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. A bottle bought at the shop, tipped in on the driveway — and it was just at the recycling that the cap caught a second look. Houses just off Saughall Road are hit as much as everywhere else.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Being unable to blend, AdBlue drops to the base inside the tank and stays. One night parked alters nothing.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — otherwise someone might take it away at breakfast — then phone us. Out in Abbots Mead or right here in Abbots Meads, the drain is done on your driveway. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
On the road around Abbots Meads with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a short way beyond the fill. Cranleigh Crescent, perhaps, or the way towards Chester — a trip of under 3 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. Through the fuel filter, along the lines, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Your move: pull up anywhere safe, then turn your engine off. Service stations farther on are too far: on the M53, under 3 miles out of Abbots Meads, take the first junction. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, anywhere across Cheshire, might do the same.
In short: an extra step on top of the cases above, which turn on if it has run. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Sorting it before we arrives is quicker, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Waiting for a reply in the car park at Bache, or beside Seaborne Library? Keep the engine off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Abbots Meads
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you can't say; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. The gates of Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in Chester.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the motor. Inside your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: assume it went in, then keep your motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Abbots Meads: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the case, a single opening is used. Three questions are asked when our engineers reach the car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street by TK Maxx or the car park outside Chichester Arms: the liquid, the quantity, and if it has run. Answers shape the job; the quote follows by phone whilst no one has set off yet.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals in fuel systems, so it does not wash out unaided; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Finally come the filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your car. If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Finally, our technicians fire it up. Our technicians check it runs properly on fresh diesel before we go. When it is noticed quickly, the car very seldom has permanent damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. It is worth knowing: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy while you wait pays.
About Abbots Meads itself
Abbots Meads is a locality situated on the riverside in Cheshire, close to the city of Chester. Abbots Meads has a low elevation of around 7 metres and is located near other nearby places such as Abbots Mead, Blacon, and Bache. Abbots Meads is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is home to a population of approximately 1152 residents.
Abbots Meads and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Blacon and Bache get the same vans as Abbots Meads, a neighbourhood, along with further towns over CH postcodes. Quickest of all: a CH1 5 postcode for where you stand.
No moving is needed, be it stopped centrally in Abbots Meads or in a layby en route to King George V Playing Fields, and so keep it where it is. We drain it where it is. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to King George V Community Sports Hub or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your situation, summed up
Engine not started: phone, leaving it alone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Abbots Meads or wherever across Cheshire.