Chorley Moor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then keep the engine off — and the ignition too. Urea mixed in water is what AdBlue is. The trouble begins once it is sucked through the lines — it will not ignite, and it will not blend with diesel. If the engine has not run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is normally emptied and carefully cleaned where the vehicle sits around Chorley Moor. Phone 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
Chorley Moor, AdBlue in your diesel tank: what to do straight away
Things to do:
- Take the keys out, and so no one switches your ignition on.
- Put the hazard lights on if you are anywhere near moving traffic.
- The empty bottle or your receipt shows us the product and the quantity, so do not bin it away.
- Our van locates you fastest with a postcode starting PR7 3, or just the name of a street nearby, and so call from the car.
Things not to do:
- Don't start your engine, even for a moment to shift the vehicle.
- Don't switch your ignition on. On many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump.
- Do not top up with diesel to thin it. AdBlue doesn't dilute in diesel; it separates out.
- Even a short way down Brindle Street is too far to drive it.
- Don't try to drain the vehicle yourself by the roadside.
Get the people behind the counter to help you roll the vehicle off the pumps if you are on a forecourt in Chorley Moor, whether it's the Asda or somewhere else. On your own drive, do not touch it at all.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
AdBlue is made for the exhaust, not the engine. From a separate tank it goes directly to your exhaust, treating what your motor lets out. Nothing in it is meant to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is built to handle it.
It does not blend. Once it is tipped into the tank, AdBlue behaves nothing like fuel. Heavier than diesel, it sinks and pools underneath it — the same place the pickup draws from. The first thing your fuel system pulls through, after it runs, is the AdBlue. So a car that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Cowling last night, and has not been started since, is still the straightforward case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of the tank, and nothing has sucked it in.
It does two kinds of damage from there. Crystals and corrosion. As the water dries, it strands urea that crystallises in filters and narrow passages; meanwhile, since it attacks some metals, every part it touches keeps suffering for as long as it stays in there. Pipes holding AdBlue spell damage by morning for a vehicle sitting around Chorley Moor. Just inside your tank, it stays stable. And there's the water: it brings no lubrication to the parts that need it the most — the injection pump and every injector.
Why is AdBlue in a diesel often the bigger problem?
Put petrol in a diesel at the Morrisons and you have a fault of thin fuel. Mixed through your diesel and sitting still, it's harmless at that stage; using the engine is the harm.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the fluid as such is simply the wrong one. It does not burn, so it can't just be run through. Nor can it be watered down, because it splits back out — and the next fill will not rinse away deposits or corrosion. So the flush counts for more here, and trying your engine "to see", in the centre of Chorley Moor or out in Birkacre, does more harm than almost any other mistake.
The same good news applies as with petrol. Anywhere in Lancashire your vehicle has stopped, an unstarted engine means the AdBlue yet in the reservoir: the simplest bit of any fuel system to empty.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Chorley Moor?
After dark, two caps together — the AdBlue cap and the diesel cap, occasionally behind one flap — can look the same. No one intends it; plenty of layouts invite it. Usually it's never the forecourt: a driver picks up a bottle driving home and tips it in at home.
It tends to happen in a few familiar ways. A warning light comes on during the school run, and the top-up takes place in a hurry outside Duke Street Primary School. Close to Dukes Park Drive, a driver tips a container in on the drive in the evening. Or your car is topped up in the car park outside The Plough, in poor light, by somebody who has never opened that flap before.
The least known cars see it the most — hire cars, new ones, fleet cars, and the spare vehicle in a home with both fuels. Wherever around Lancashire, Chorley Moor included, the slip does not change, and neither does the first step: keep it switched off.
Already started the engine with AdBlue in your diesel tank in Chorley Moor?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. It has been drawn through the fuel filter and your lines, and if the engine ran for any time, it has got to the high-pressure pump and the injectors.
Maybe returning from Rangletts Recreation Ground, or part way across Chorley Moor, the engine might go lumpy, smoke, lose power, flash your dash or stall. Stop when it is safe. Switch off. Keep the car off instead of testing it again. Each start pulls more of that through.
On the M61, under 3 miles from Chorley Moor, the first junction is where to exit, and anywhere sensible is where to park — not driving on.
Hopping across Chorley Moor to the car park by Victory Park is one matter; heading towards Preston, under 10 miles away, is another, because every mile carries the AdBlue deeper in. So mileage matters. Let us know about how far it had come.
Once your engine has run, the flush covers more, and all of it is done where the car has ended up. Very seldom does it leave permanent damage if it is noticed soon.
Draining AdBlue in a diesel around Chorley Moor: what it takes
Wherever it has come to rest in Chorley Moor — a forecourt, a layby, a drive, a street by Chorley Gospel Hall — our van travels to the car. Three replies shape the work, so first our technicians ask what was put in, roughly the amount, plus if the engine has turned over.
Next, emptying that tank on the spot takes out the polluted diesel along with the AdBlue together. The system is purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol, because what it leaves behind doesn't rinse out on its own. Next, the fuel filter: cleaned, or replaced if it has to be. After that fresh diesel, and then a check of your vehicle. About half an hour once we arrive is usual for most jobs when the engine has not run. The pumping gear is explosion-proof, so a busy filling station is no fault, and it's hushed enough for a residential street after dark.
Bleeding the fuel system with clean diesel comes at the end. Starting the car comes next, and then you drive off from where the car is parked, outside Chorley or on a driveway around Chorley Moor. The test before our technicians leave is that it runs smoothly on clean diesel. We do it all wherever the vehicle has ended up, and it never needs to go to a garage. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report later, which is what insurers ask for.
About Chorley Moor and where it is
Chorley Moor is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated approximately 8 miles south of Preston and 181 miles northwest of London. Chorley Moor sits at an elevation of around 87 metres, characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock. Chorley Moor is located near other local places such as Weld Bank, Chorley, and Red Bank, and has a population of around 9437 residents.
AdBlue drains across Chorley Moor and Lancashire
Weld Bank, Chorley and Red Bank are among the places around Chorley Moor that the same vans serve, along with much of Lancashire further out, over the PR postcode area. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Wherever your vehicle sits — your drive at home, a side street, a car park, a forecourt — our technicians drain it there, and there's no need to bring it to us; that suits Chorley Moor, a residential suburb, well.
Chorley Moor: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
Every job differs, so no single quote would be fair. What changes the cost is, firstly, whether the motor has been running and for how long; then how much AdBlue went in; and then where your car is and whether a van can get to it safely, which is simpler on an open drive than in a tight gap behind Chorley Methodist Church.
Ahead of any figure, never after, every call from Chorley Moor opens with three checks: the fuel, the amount, plus if the engine ran. With them, a range narrows to one firm figure.
You get that price by phone, before anyone sets off, and you pay on the day, by card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Look at your insurance whilst we are on the way: plenty carry misfuelling cover.
In Chorley Moor and still beside the car?
Then, do nothing — that is the best move there is. Keys out, engine off, ignition off. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Chorley Moor or anywhere within Lancashire, after you ring 0333 366 0103 to say it was AdBlue, about what quantity, and if it ran.