Butter Bank: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your engine has run since it got in. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle that way, wherever the car is — Butter Bank or Derrington. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out right where the vehicle sits around Butter Bank. Where your engine has run, pull in safely straight away, then switch it off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, wherever around Staffordshire you are.
At the petrol pump in Butter Bank: AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Anywhere around Butter Bank, then — Shell, Esso, or anywhere else nearby.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it gets. Just your tank holds AdBlue; no part past it has taken any in.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — so do not get back in. Phone us from the forecourt after the car is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to push it — then keep the bottle. Stuck beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Butter Bank drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used on the driveway. Drives close to Gorsty Lane see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Your move: the keys in the house, so nobody drives your car anywhere first thing. Then, phone. We drain the car on your drive, whether that's around Butter Bank or out in Coton Clanford. Our equipment runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Butter Bank: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Maybe it was on Coton Lane, perhaps on the way out towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 15 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue through already. It's been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, and switch your engine off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M6, under 3 miles from Butter Bank. It won't have cleared, and so there's no point restarting to find out. Let us know the distance driven as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've only had the car for days. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so no one told you the AdBlue inlet was right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Staffordshire.
In short: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which depend on if it has run. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Do this: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Hanging on for a reply in the car park at Stafford, or beside St Chad? Keep the car off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Butter Bank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Cooper Perry Primary School in a rush, say, or someone's driveway over in Ranton.
Meaning? Drips around the inlet never reach your motor at all. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Take it that it was put in, and don't turn your engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked is a better outcome than a run one emptied.
Every AdBlue drain around Butter Bank shares these stages
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Holly Bush or a side street near St Matthew, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. Those replies decide this work, and you hear the quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is crucial, because deposits build up and some metals corrode, and none of that washes out unaided. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job after the moment our technicians arrive.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before we go. Our technicians do the entire job where the car is, and permanent damage is very uncommon when it has been noticed soon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Many insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Butter Bank, briefly
Butter Bank is a locality in Staffordshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 91 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Butter Bank lies near several other small places, including Coton Clanford, The Handfords, and Whitecross, and is approximately 14.7 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Butter Bank has a population of around 521 people and is located in a rural area, relatively close to the West Midlands region's main urban centres. Butter Bank is also some distance from London, at around 125.3 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Butter Bank, and across Staffordshire too
Over ST postcodes, the vans serving Butter Bank — a small village — work surrounding towns too, The Handfords and Whitecross included. Telling us your ST18 9 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to William's Wood or in a car park in the middle of Butter Bank, it does not need to shift. Wherever it stands, that's where it gets drained. Tricky to pin down? By Ranton Village Hall or a county line? Checking beats assuming, and so ring.
Your scenario, in one line
Motor never started: ring, leaving it alone. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across Staffordshire and in Butter Bank — once you stop, turn off then phone, if it's run.