What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Dee Banks
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has been started since. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is around Dee Banks itself or out in Handbridge. Call 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor still off. In Dee Banks, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. Already started? Pull over once you safely can, then turn it off. Step one remains the same, even if the work grows.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Cheshire it happened.
At the pump in Dee Banks: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only spot it while you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Anywhere in Dee Banks, then — Sainsbury's, Asda, or somewhere else nearby.
In short: there is no better spot to be to discover it. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Ask the attendants to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed clear is emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Dee Banks drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Picked up a container, tipped it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point looked at the cap again, too late. Houses just off Sandy Lane are hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: zero driving since leaves this almost equal to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and remains put, no matter how long the night.
Next: stop any early-morning drive by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. Your drive is where it is drained, whether around Dee Banks or Boughton. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road around Dee Banks with AdBlue in a diesel
Filled up, drove away, and soon the motor was running roughly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Somewhere on Deva Heights or else heading to Chester — under 3 miles away.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue through already. Past the filter, along the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that's the next job — then turn it off. Service stations farther on can wait: from the M53, under 3 miles out of Dee Banks, use the next junction. It will not have cleared, and so there's no point starting it again to check. Call, and say how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
A week back, the car was unknown to you. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit side by side here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Wherever you are in Cheshire, any motorist could be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner often needs to approve any work, under plenty of rental and fleet agreements.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before we get there than after. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside Chester, or beside Riverside Centre? Leave the engine off meanwhile.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Dee Banks
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think it did. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Boughton Heath Academy in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive over in Chester.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never reach the motor at all. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. Any AdBlue in that tank will be sucked in by firing up the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it went in, and don't turn the engine. Tell us what you saw on the phone. A clear tank looked at is a happier result than a run one emptied.
Dee Banks: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Every situation gets the same start to the work. Forecourt, driveway, Red House's car park or a road beside St Lukes — our van comes to your car, and three questions come next: which liquid, what quantity, and whether it ran. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers shape the job.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out unaided; that's why the flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the car. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
The last step is starting the engine. With clean diesel in, it runs while our technicians make sure it's running smoothly, and then we leave. We do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been noticed soon. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Dee Banks, briefly
Dee Banks is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Chester, situated near the River Dee in Cheshire. Dee Banks sits at a low elevation of around 12 metres, with its riverside setting influencing the local environment. Dee Banks is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Dee Banks is close to nearby places such as Boughton, Boughton Heath, and Huntington, and is just over a mile from Chester city centre.
Dee Banks and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout CH postcodes, the teams covering Dee Banks — a residential suburb — work nearby towns too, Boughton Heath and Huntington included. Telling us a CH3 5 postcode finds you quickest of all.
Central Dee Banks or a layby towards Sandy Lane Park: wherever it is, your vehicle doesn't need to move at all for the drain. We drain the car where it stands. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you're by Obelisk cenotaph to George Marsh, martyr, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Keep the car off then phone. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, across Cheshire and within Dee Banks — once you stop, switch off and phone, if it's run.