AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Birch Heath, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether your motor has been run since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Not run yet? Then leave the car that way, wherever your vehicle is — Birch Heath or Rhuddall Heath. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine still off. In Birch Heath, that is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. Pull over the moment it is safe then turn off, if it has been run. It's a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Cheshire it happened.
At the petrol pump around Birch Heath: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you spot the filler you took off wasn't the right one. Maybe you're at the Texaco, perhaps at the Murco, perhaps somewhere else around Birch Heath.
The point: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Ring us from the forecourt once the car sits in a space — the staff will help roll it — then keep the bottle. Emptying it there at the pump is fine if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Birch Heath, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had shown all week. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Homes just off Birch Heath Road get hit as much as anywhere else.
Put simply: if the car hasn't moved since, it is almost as good as finding out at the forecourt. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and waits. One night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Out in Hand Green or right here in Birch Heath, the draining happens on your driveway. Night-time empties beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Birch Heath?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Tarporley Bypass, perhaps, or the route to Chester — a run of under 10 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have had it. It goes deeper with every extra mile covered and each restart.
Your move: stop anywhere sensible, then switch your motor off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M53, under 10 miles from Birch Heath. It will not have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to check. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
A week ago, the car was unknown to you. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers are next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Any driver, anywhere in Cheshire, might do it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts too — run or unrun — and one further stage. Many rental and fleet agreements require the owner's approval before work.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our engineers arrive than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Delamere, or by Tarporley Community Centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Birch Heath?
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Lighter, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Look familiar? The gates of Tarporley CofE Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway over in Four Lane Ends.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't reach the engine at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Firing up your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would draw it in.
Take it that it went in, and don't turn your engine. Ring with the details: we would sooner confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once the motor has been run.
The common ground in every Birch Heath AdBlue drain
Every case gets the same start to the job. Three questions come once we arrive — on a filling station, a driveway, a road beside Tarporley Community High School Library or the car park at Foresters Arms: the fluid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been started. Your price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those answers shape the work.
Draining the tank comes first, then a careful flush — more important after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not clear by themselves, however long you wait. Fresh diesel goes in after your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is then checked. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The final step is firing it up. With new diesel in, it runs while our technicians confirm it's running smoothly, and then we leave. Our engineers do the entire job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very rare when it has been noticed soon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies include misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Birch Heath
Birch Heath is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Cheshire, with a population of around 523 people. Birch Heath sits at an elevation of 77 metres, close to the nearby villages of Hand Green and Tarporley. Birch Heath is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Birch Heath is located near the city of Chester, which is approximately 9.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Birch Heath, and across Cheshire too
As a rural hamlet, Birch Heath shares its vans with the nearby towns — Tiverton, Tarporley — all the way across CW postcodes. A postcode starting CW6 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Iddinshall Rough or in a car park in the middle of Birch Heath, it does not need to shift. The van drains it where it stands. Assuming doesn't help beside St Helen's Church, on a county line or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
Your scenario, summed up
Still unrun? Leave the car off then ring. Run already? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, in Birch Heath and Cheshire, on 0333 366 0103.