AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Brownhill: What Now?
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue got in? This one question settles nearly everything about what comes next. Not run yet? Then keep it like that, wherever the vehicle is — Brownhill or Bank Hey. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where your vehicle stands in Brownhill. Pull over the moment you safely can then turn off, if it has already run. A larger job, then, but the same opening move.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Lancashire it happened.
On a Brownhill forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, nozzle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Maybe you are at the BP, possibly at the Prestonway Service Station, perhaps somewhere else around Brownhill.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it can be. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs freeing. Three things: a shove into a space with the staff helping, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from where you stand. If it cannot be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
At home around Brownhill with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle from the shop, tipped in on the drive — and it was just by the recycling that the cap got your eye. Right off Walden Road is no different from any other place.
The point: zero driving since makes it almost equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of that tank and stays put, however long the night.
Put your keys in the house overnight — otherwise someone may take it away first thing — and call us. We drain it on your driveway, whether that is around Brownhill or out in Ramsgreave. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Brownhill?
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. Maybe it was on Parsonage Road, possibly on the way out towards Preston, under 10 miles away.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so and switch off. On the M65, under 3 miles from Brownhill, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say what distance the vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have had this car barely a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever across Lancashire, could do it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Any work on your car often requires the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our technicians turn up than after. Hanging on for a reply in the car park outside Ramsgreave & Wilpshire, or near Holy Souls? Leave the engine off throughout.
Brownhill: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. The gates of Roe Lee Park Primary School in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive over in Pleckgate.
The upshot: the motor is not harmed by a little AdBlue splashed around the filler. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Any AdBlue in your tank will be sucked in by firing up the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it got in, and leave your engine off. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
Each AdBlue drain around Brownhill shares these steps
The work begins identically, whatever your case. Forecourt, drive, Rising Sun's car park or a road by Trinity Church — our van comes to your vehicle, and three answers come next: which liquid, what amount, and if it ran. Answers set the work; the quote comes on the call while no one has left yet.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system purged 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. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced where necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment our technicians arrive.
Our engineers fire it up last. Before our technicians head off, it is checked to confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it is spotted soon, 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. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Brownhill
Brownhill is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated approximately 9 miles north of Preston and 185 miles northwest of London. Brownhill sits at an elevation of around 152 metres, characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Brownhill is located near other local places such as Ramsgreave, Wilpshire, and Roe Lee, and has a population of around 2747 residents.
AdBlue drains across Lancashire, Brownhill included
Over BB postcodes, the teams serving Brownhill — a residential suburb — work surrounding towns as well, Wilpshire and Roe Lee among them. A postcode starting BB1 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Central Brownhill or a lay-by near Roe Lee Park: either way it is, the vehicle doesn't need to shift at all for us. Where it sits, that is where it is cleared. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to St Gabriel's Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In one line: your scenario
Unstarted? Keep it that way then ring. Whichever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, across Lancashire and within Brownhill — after you pull over, turn off then ring, if it has run.