AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bardsley, and What to Do Next
All of it turns on one fact: whether the motor has started after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Wherever your car is — Hollins Green, Bardsley — never run an engine that has not been started yet. Leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Bardsley. Pull over the moment it is safe and turn off, if it has already run. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Below: the situations we meet, anywhere around Greater Manchester. Choose yours.
At the petrol pump around Bardsley: AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it the nearest petrol station, Texaco or somewhere else in Bardsley, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. Only that tank has AdBlue; no part beyond it has taken it in.
Next: avoid the urge to start it just to move away from the petrol pump. Three things: a push into a bay with the attendants helping, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from where you stand. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away is cleared right at the petrol pump.
At home around Bardsley with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the dash, a reminder had been lit all week. Bought a container, tipped it in outside the house, binned the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, too late. Houses just off Byrth Road are hit as much as anywhere else.
The upshot: zero miles since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. On the floor of the tank is where AdBlue stays, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Next: prevent any early drive by putting the keys indoors, then ring us. Your drive is where it is drained, whether in Bardsley or Fitton Hill. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Bardsley?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. It might have been heading to Manchester, under 10 miles away, or just along Victoria Street.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue up. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a sensible place, stop, and switch your motor off. Service stations farther along are too far: from the M60, under 3 miles out of Bardsley, use the next junction. It won't have cleared, so there is no sense starting it again to find out. Call us and say how far you drove.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a motor you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is right next to your diesel cap — a surprise to you. Across Greater Manchester, no one is immune.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies too — run or not — plus one further stage. Work on the vehicle frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. If you're stranded in the car park outside Ashton-Under-Lyne, or by Manor Park, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bardsley?
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think it did. A faint ammonia-like whiff lingers around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. A rushed stop by the gates of Holy Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, or a call to a friend in Lime Side: either fits.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never touch the engine at all. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be sucked in by turning on the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Assume it was put in, and don't turn the key. Phone and give what you saw: we'd sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after your engine has run.
What each AdBlue drain in Bardsley has in common
Every situation gets the same opening to the job. Three things come when our engineers arrive — at a filling station, a driveway, a street beside War Memorial or the car park outside Daisyfield Inn: the liquid, the quantity, and whether the motor has run. Answers set the work; the quote comes on the call whilst no one has set off yet.
Then the tank is drained and the system cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Before our technicians head off, it's checked to make sure it runs properly on clean diesel. We do the entire job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very rare if it has been spotted soon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over.
About Bardsley itself
Bardsley is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Medlock and close to the city of Manchester. Bardsley sits at an elevation of 136 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Bardsley is located near several other suburban areas, including Fitton Hill and Knott Lanes, and is approximately 6 miles from Manchester city centre.
AdBlue drains about Bardsley and across Greater Manchester
Over OL postcodes, the teams covering Bardsley — a residential suburb — work nearby towns as well, Knott Lanes and Limehurst among them. Fastest of all: a OL8 3 postcode for where you stand.
Centre of Bardsley or a lay-by near Werneth Golf Course: either way it is, the car never needs to shift at all for this drain. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Assuming won't help near Holy Rosary Church, on a county line or somewhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Keep the vehicle that way then phone. Run already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever case, across Bardsley and Greater Manchester, on 0333 366 0103.