AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Fowley Common: What Now?
All of that hinges on a single fact: whether the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Out in Lately Common or here in Fowley Common, an unstarted motor should remain unrun. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where the vehicle sits in Fowley Common. Already started? Stop once safe, then turn it off. Step one stays the same, even if the work is bigger.
Anywhere in Cheshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Fowley Common forecourt
You're 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. Anywhere in Fowley Common, then — BP, Tesco, or somewhere else nearby.
In short: no better place to be to spot it. No pump has drawn it through, and so the AdBlue stays just in that tank.
Your move: keep out of the car, even if the queue needs freeing. Have the staff to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Emptying it there at the pump is fine if it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Fowley Common, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. A bottle from the shop, emptied in on the driveway — and it's just at the recycling that the cap caught a second look. It occurs on driveways just off Warrington Road as often as anywhere.
In short: if the car hasn't been driven since, it's almost equal to finding out at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — otherwise someone might drive it away at breakfast — then phone us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, be it around Fowley Common or Glazebury. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Fowley Common: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and soon your motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Ravenfield Close, perhaps, or the way towards Salford — a run of under 10 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. Past the filter, through the pipework, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and every injector. It travels deeper with each mile covered and every restart.
Your move: pull up anywhere sensible, then switch the motor off. Service stations farther on are too far: on the M62, under 3 miles out of Fowley Common, take the next junction. No trial starts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Call us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
Seven days back, the car was unknown to you. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap was just beside the diesel. Across Cheshire, no one is immune.
Meaning? Whatever case above counts too — run or unrun — and one further stage. Any work on the car often needs the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. If you're stranded in the car park outside Glazebrook, or by Glazebury Methodist Church, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Fowley Common?
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Culcheth Community Primary School in a rush, perhaps, or someone's drive out in Wigshaw.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another story. Turning on the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will pull it in.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not start the car. Tell us what you saw on the phone. A clear tank checked is a happier result than an already-run one drained.
Fowley Common: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the situation, a single opening is used. Three things come once we reach the car — at a forecourt, a drive, a street beside Newchurch Parish Church or the car park outside Raven Inn: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has run. Answers shape the work; the quote follows on the call while nobody has left yet.
Then that 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, and so it does not rinse out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Finally, we start the car. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running properly, and then we go. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it is caught early, lasting damage is very unusual. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Fowley Common
Fowley Common is a small village in Cheshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 21 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Fowley Common lies near several other small villages, including Glazebury, Culcheth, and Twiss Green, and is approximately 8.5 miles from the city of Salford. Fowley Common has a population of around 552 residents, who live in a relatively quiet riverside setting. Fowley Common is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 167.6 miles.
AdBlue drains in Fowley Common, and across Cheshire too
Over WA postcodes, the vans covering Fowley Common — a village — reach nearby towns as well, Culcheth and Twiss Green included. The location comes clearest from a postcode that starts WA3 5.
Centre of Fowley Common or a layby near Mee Brow: either way it is, your car doesn't need to shift at all for this drain. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near The Church of All Saints or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off and call. Run by now: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Fowley Common or anywhere across Cheshire.