AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Great Lever: What Now?
Everything turns on a single detail: if the motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Not run so far? Then keep the car that way, wherever your car is — Great Lever or Springfield. Leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Great Lever. Pull over the moment it is safe and switch off, if it has been run. A bigger job, then, but the same opening step.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Greater Manchester it happened.
Great Lever forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It might be the Texaco, or the EG On the Move, or another forecourt around Great Lever.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump wants clearing. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home around Great Lever with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had gone by with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Drives near Westbourne Avenue get it as much as anywhere.
The point: zero miles since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and stays. A night standing alters none of that.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Great Lever or Burnden. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Great Lever?
A mile or two after filling up, your engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. Somewhere on Forester Hill Avenue or else heading towards Salford — under 10 miles away.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. It has been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More miles, more starts: deeper it travels.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the next step — then switch everything off. Service stations further on can wait: from the M61, under 3 miles out of Great Lever, use the next junction. No test starts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Call us and say how far you travelled.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the vehicle barely a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you happen to be across Greater Manchester, any motorist could slip up.
In short: an extra stage on top of the situations above, which depend on if it's run. Any work on the car frequently requires the owner's approval under rental or fleet agreements.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before we get there than after. Keep the car switched off while the answer arrives, whether you are parked outside Moses Gate or close to Rose Hill United Reformed Church.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Great Lever?
Occasionally the fair answer is "I think so". Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy recollection of which cap. Sound familiar? It might have been on a friend's driveway in Lever Edge, or in a rush by Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton on the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never reach the engine at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Take it that it got in, and don't start the key. 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.
Great Lever: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Wherever your vehicle is — The Southfields's car park, a road by The Nightingale Centre, a drive, a filling station — the van arrives and we ask for the fluid, the quantity, and if your engine has been run. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear the quote, and those replies shape the job too.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Finally are the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of your car. Where the motor hasn't run, expect about half an hour on site, for most cases.
We start the engine last. Our test that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before our technicians go. If it is noticed quickly, the car very seldom has permanent damage, and the whole job happens where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About Great Lever and where it is
Great Lever is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near several lakes and waterways, with an elevation of around 107 metres. Great Lever lies approximately 7.6 miles from Salford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Burnden, Rose Hill, and Harper Green. Great Lever has a population of around 12,123 people and is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock. Great Lever is located in the North West region of England, about 171.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains about Great Lever and across Greater Manchester
As a residential suburb, Great Lever has the same vans as the surrounding places — Harper Green, Rose Hill — all the way across BL postcodes. Quickest of all: a BL3 2 postcode to show where you stand.
Central Great Lever or a layby towards Great Lever Park: either way it sits, the vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for this drain. Our engineers drain the car where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to Peace Community Theatre or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
Where it has not started, phone and leave it that way. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Great Lever and anywhere across Greater Manchester on 0333 366 0103.