What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Gravel
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has been run since it went in. Not run so far? Then keep it that way, wherever your vehicle sits — Gravel or Ways Green. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine both off. Across Gravel, such a case is typically drained and flushed where it stands. When the motor has been run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then switch the vehicle off. Step one stays unchanged, even though the job grows.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere around Cheshire you happen to be.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Gravel forecourt
Only at this point, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Be it Morrisons, E. White Solid Fuels or anywhere else in Gravel, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. Only that tank has AdBlue; no part past it has drawn it in.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the queue needs freeing. Ring us from the forecourt once the car sits in a bay — the staff will help push it — then save the receipt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Gravel drive?
Days had gone by with the dash light on. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in at the driveway — and it's only by the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It occurs on driveways just off Station Road as commonly as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided your car hasn't moved since, it is second to the forecourt case. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Your move: the keys in the house, so nobody takes your vehicle off at breakfast. After that, ring. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it around Gravel or Wharton. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a driveway.
On the road in Gravel with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and before long your motor was turning roughly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Ribble Avenue, say, or the way towards Chester — a run of under 25 miles.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the more the mileage — on into the injection pump and each injector. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. On the M6, under 5 miles from Gravel, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to find out. Call us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've had the vehicle barely a week. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Cheshire.
In short: an extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on whether it has run. Plenty of rental and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off for work.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Stuck near Trinity Methodist Church or at Winsford until someone answers, the car remains turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Gravel?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and ammonia lingers by the filler. It might have been at a friend's drive in Wharton Green, or in a rush outside Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School on the school run.
In short: spillage near the filler does the engine unharmed. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not crank it. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain around Gravel shares these steps
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere the vehicle is — The Princes Feathers's car park, a road by Trinity Community Centre, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and we ask for the liquid, the amount, plus whether your engine has been run. The price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the work.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel is put in once the fuel filter has been cleaned or changed, and your car is then tested. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Our engineers start the car at the end. Our engineers make sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we go. We do the whole job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very unusual when it has been caught soon. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Gravel and where it is
Gravel is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated inland at an elevation of 47 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Gravel lies approximately 16 miles from Chester and is surrounded by nearby places such as Wharton, Clive, and Clive Green. Gravel has a population of around 4273 residents and is located in the North West region of England, about 153 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cheshire, Gravel included
As a residential suburb, Gravel has the same vans as the nearby towns — Clive Green, Clive — all the way across CW postcodes. Giving us your CW7 3 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Wharton Recreation Ground or in a car park in the middle of Gravel, it doesn't need to move. The drain is done on the spot. Phone and check rather than guess when you are by Wharton Library, on a border, or somewhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, in one line
Unstarted? Leave it off and phone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Gravel and anywhere around Cheshire on 0333 366 0103.