Goose Green: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your motor turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This one point decides nearly everything else from here. Not run so far? Then keep the car like that, wherever the vehicle is — Goose Green or Walmer Bridge. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine still off. In Goose Green, that is generally drained and cleaned on the spot. When your motor has been run, stop safely straight away, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Lancashire it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Goose Green forecourt
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Anywhere in Goose Green, then — Suthers Star Garage, Shell, or anywhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Still inside the tank, and nothing pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you roll the car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Draining it right at the pump is fine if it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Goose Green drive?
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the driveway. Drives near Smithy Lane get it as much as anywhere.
Put simply: if your car has not been driven since, it's almost equal to finding out at the pump. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base in the tank and stays. One night standing alters none of that.
Next: stop any early drive by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether in Goose Green or Much Hoole. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Goose Green: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way beyond topping up, your motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Moss House Lane, perhaps, or the way towards Preston — a trip of under 10 miles.
Meaning? The fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. Through your filter, along the pipework, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: further it travels.
Do this: stop somewhere safe, then turn the engine off. On the M6, under 10 miles from Goose Green, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, and say what distance the car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a car you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is just by the diesel cap — news to you. Across Lancashire, no one is safe from it.
The point: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, but with one added stage. Many hire and company contracts require the owner's approval for repairs.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Stranded near St Michael's and All Angels Church or outside Croston until someone answers, your car stays switched off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Goose Green?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Hoole St Michael CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Little Hoole Moss Houses.
The upshot: the engine isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the filler. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, and keep the engine off. Ring with what you saw: we would rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once the engine has been run.
Goose Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Anywhere your vehicle is — The Smithy Inn's car park, a road by Walmer Bridge Village Hall, a drive, a forecourt — our van arrives and asks about the fluid, the amount, plus whether your engine has been run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told our price, and those replies decide the work too.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that's why a full flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Not started? In that case roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Lastly, our technicians fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while our technicians make sure it is running correctly, and then we leave. We do the entire job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very rare if it has been spotted soon. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. It is worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your policy as we travel is worthwhile.
About Goose Green and where it is
Goose Green is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with an elevation of around 15 metres. Goose Green lies approximately 6 miles from Preston and is part of the wider North West region, with nearby places including Much Hoole and Much Hoole Town. Goose Green has a population of around 1251 people and predominantly features semi-detached housing.
Goose Green and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout PR postcodes, the vans serving Goose Green — a residential suburb — reach nearby places too, Much Hoole Town and Much Hoole Moss Houses included. Your whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts PR4 4.
No moving is required, whether stopped centrally in Goose Green or in a layby en route to Much Hoole Vilage Hall & Leisure Park, and so leave it where it is. Wherever it sits, that's where it gets cleared. Phone and check instead of guessing if you're close to Bretherton War Mamorial, on a border, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Goose Green and anywhere around Lancashire on 0333 366 0103.