What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bickershaw
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has run since. Wherever your vehicle stands — Tamer Lane End, Bickershaw — never start a motor that has not run yet. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where your car stands around Bickershaw. Pull over the minute it is safe then switch off, if it has been run. Stage one remains the same, even though the work grows.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Greater Manchester it happened.
Bickershaw forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only now, nozzle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Possibly you're at the Gulf, perhaps at the Texaco, maybe somewhere else in Bickershaw.
In short: no better place exists to discover it. Still in your tank, and no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs clearing. Have the staff to help pushing it into a bay, save the bottle, then phone us from there. If it cannot be moved, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
Bickershaw, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened at the driveway. Driveways close to Brown Street see it as much as any other street.
Put simply: if the vehicle has not moved since, it is nearly as good as finding out at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the floor of the tank and stays there, however long it waits.
Next: stop any early-morning drive by keeping the keys in the house, then phone us. We drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that's around Bickershaw or out in Abram Brow. The equipment runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Bickershaw?
Filled up, drove away, and before long the motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Perhaps it was on Forresters Close, perhaps on the way out towards Salford, under 15 miles away.
Meaning? The fuel pump has taken the AdBlue up. Distance decides how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. It travels deeper with each extra mile driven and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it's safe then switch off. Bickershaw sits under 5 miles from the Bryn Spur; on it, come off at the first junction instead of pressing on for the services. No test starts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Call, saying what distance your vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
Seven days back, it was new to you. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the inlet is just by the diesel cap — news to you. Wherever you happen to be around Greater Manchester, every motorist could slip up.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or not — plus one further stage. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under many hire and company contracts.
Settling it before the van arrives is quicker, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck by St James & St Elizabeth (Bickershaw Parish Church) or outside Hindley until the firm answers, your car remains turned off the whole time.
Bickershaw: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". Too light, the bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Sound familiar? The gates of Bickershaw CofE Primary School in a rush, say, or someone's driveway over in Crankwood.
The point: your motor is not harmed by a little AdBlue spilled around the outside. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: act as though it got in, and keep your motor off. Tell us what you saw on your phone. A clean tank looked at is a happier outcome than a run one drained.
The common ground in every Bickershaw AdBlue drain
The work opens the same way, whatever the situation. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street near Abram Motopark, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the motor has been run. Those replies settle this work, and you get our price by phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out unaided; that's why the flush, after the drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Fresh diesel is put in after your filter is flushed or changed, and the car is finally tested. Never started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Last, our technicians start the engine. With clean diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running smoothly, and then we go. We do the whole job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very unusual when it has been noticed early. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over.
About Bickershaw
Bickershaw is a village in Greater Manchester, situated on the lakeside at an elevation of around 40 metres. Bickershaw has a population of approximately 1152 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Bickershaw is located near several other small places, including Abram Brow, Abram, and Platt Bridge, and is about 11.5 miles from the city of Salford. Bickershaw is also relatively distant from London, at around 172.5 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Bickershaw included
Throughout WN postcodes, the vans serving Bickershaw — a village — work nearby places as well, Abram and Platt Bridge included. Fastest of all: a WN2 5 postcode to show your location.
Stopped en route to Leyland Park, or bang in the centre of Bickershaw, your car stays put — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Our van drains it in place. Assuming won't help beside Abram Memorial, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
If it has not started, phone and leave it off. Run by now: pull over, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Bickershaw or wherever across Greater Manchester.