Ellesmere Port: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine run since the AdBlue was put in? This single point settles almost everything else from here. Over in Overpool or here around Ellesmere Port, an unrun motor should remain unrun. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out right where the vehicle sits in Ellesmere Port. When the motor has been run, pull in safely first, then switch it off. It is a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, anywhere across Cheshire you happen to be.
At the petrol pump around Ellesmere Port: AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It could be the Shell, or perhaps the Morrisons, or a different station around Ellesmere Port.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. No pump has pulled it through, so the AdBlue stays just inside the tank.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up just to free up the pump. A few things: a shove into a bay with the staff assisting, the receipt kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is fine if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Ellesmere Port, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had gone by with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened on the driveway. Homes just off Heathfield Road are hit as much as everywhere else.
The upshot: zero miles since makes this nearly equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. Being unable to mix, AdBlue drops low in your tank and stays. One night parked alters nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that's around Ellesmere Port or out in Whitby. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Ellesmere Port?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe it was on Whitby Road, maybe on the way out towards Chester, under 10 miles away.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. Through the filter, along the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Service stations further on are too far: on the M53, under a mile out of Ellesmere Port, use the next junction. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Tell us know the mileage covered as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week back, it was unknown to you. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is right next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Throughout Cheshire, nobody is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies too — run or not — and one further stage. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under plenty of hire and company contracts.
Settling it before the van arrives is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Leave the car switched off while the reply arrives, even if you're waiting at the nearest station or close to Ellesmere Port Civic Hall.
Ellesmere Port: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest answer there is. A slight ammonia smell lingers near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at William Stockton Community Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Stanlow.
The point: your engine isn't harmed by some AdBlue spilled around the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Your move: behave as though it did, and don't start the engine. Phone and give what you saw: we'd sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one once the engine has run.
What each AdBlue drain around Ellesmere Port has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three questions come once our engineers arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a road beside Trinity Methodist Church or the car park outside The William Jessop: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has been started. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and those replies shape the work.
Draining the tank comes next, then a careful flush — more important after urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Next is the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped where necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Never started? Then roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our check that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before our technicians go. Lasting damage is very rare if it is noticed quickly, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what your insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Ellesmere Port
Ellesmere Port is a town in Cheshire, situated on the coastal fringe of the North West region, with a population of around 28160 people. Ellesmere Port lies near the city of Chester, approximately 6 miles to the south, and is characterised by its semi-detached housing stock. Ellesmere Port is relatively low-lying, with an average elevation of 29 metres above sea level. Ellesmere Port is also within reach of other nearby places, including Whitby and Wolverham, although these are not immediate neighbours.
Ellesmere Port and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a coastal town, Ellesmere Port shares its vans with the nearby towns — Whitbyheath, Wolverham — right through CH postcodes. Quickest of all: a CH65 0 postcode to show your location.
No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Ellesmere Port or in a layby en route to Whitby Park, and so leave it put. Our van empties it in place. Guessing doesn't help beside War Memorial, on a county line or somewhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Keep the car off then phone. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Cheshire and in Ellesmere Port — once you pull over, turn off and phone, if it has run.