AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bowring Park: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has run since it got in. Over in Roby or here around Bowring Park, an unrun engine should stay that way. Leave your engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Bowring Park. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It is a larger job, yet step one does not change.
Match your case to one of the list below, wherever in Merseyside you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Bowring Park forecourt
Just at this point, nozzle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. It could be the the nearest petrol station, or the Shell, or a different station around Bowring Park.
The upshot: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Only the tank holds AdBlue; not one part past it has drawn any in.
What to do: don't get back in and start the car to clear the pump. Have the attendants to help pushing it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then phone us right there. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Bowring Park
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Just off Rimmer Avenue is no different from anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and stays put, no matter how long the night.
Keep your keys in the house tonight — or someone may take it off at breakfast — and phone us. Court Hey or Bowring Park: whichever your drive is, that's where it is emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Bowring Park?
A short way beyond filling up, the motor began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Court Hey Road, perhaps, or the way to Liverpool — a run of under 5 miles.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the next step — then turn everything off. Services further along are too far: on the M62, under a mile out of Bowring Park, take the next junction. It won't have cleared, and so there is no sense restarting to check. About what distance had it go? Say so as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
Seven days ago, the car was unknown to you. Your own car either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap sits right next to your diesel. Across Merseyside, no one is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Stuck by St Margaret Mary's Roman Catholic Church;St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church or outside Roby till the firm answers, the car remains switched off the whole time.
Bowring Park: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe on a friend's drive in Swanside, or rushing outside St Paschal Baylon Catholic Primary School on the school run.
Meaning? Drips outside the inlet don't reach your motor at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Any AdBlue in that tank would be drawn in by firing up the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it was put in, and never start the key. Ring with what you saw: we would sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one after the engine has run.
Bowring Park: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the situation, a single opening is used. We come to the car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street near Roby Community Centre, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and if your motor has run. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those replies set the job.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Last come your filter, flushed or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a check of your car. Most unrun cars are a half-hour visit from the moment our engineers turn up.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before we head off. The entire job is done where the car is, and when it's spotted early, permanent damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents as we travel pays.
About Bowring Park and where it is
Bowring Park is a suburban area in Merseyside, situated near the River Alt and close to the city of Liverpool. Bowring Park sits at an elevation of 31 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Bowring Park is located near several other suburban areas, including Court Hey, Page Moss, and Dovecot, and is approximately 4.4 miles from Liverpool city centre.
AdBlue drains in Bowring Park, and across Merseyside too
Over L postcodes, the teams serving Bowring Park — a residential suburb — work surrounding places too, Page Moss and Dovecot included. A postcode starting L16 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is needed, be it stopped in the centre of Bowring Park or on a lay-by en route to Formal Garden, so leave it put. Where it sits, that's where it is emptied. Awkward to explain? Close to St. Mark's Church or a border? Asking beats assuming, and so ring.
In one line: your situation
If it hasn't started, ring and keep it off. Run by now: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Bowring Park or wherever in Merseyside.