What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Greenacres Fold
Has your engine run since the AdBlue was put in? This single question settles almost everything else from here. Anywhere your vehicle is — Sun Hill, Greenacres Fold — don't start a motor that hasn't run yet. Normally this means emptying and properly purging it right there in Greenacres Fold — so keep your ignition and motor off then phone 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the situations we meet, anywhere around Greater Manchester. Choose the one that fits.
Greenacres Fold 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. Perhaps you're at the Shell, possibly at the Gulf, possibly somewhere else around Greenacres Fold.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits just in your tank.
Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the pump wants clearing. Three jobs: a push into a bay with the attendants helping, the receipt saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. If it cannot be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
Greenacres Fold, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it's just at the bin that the cap caught your eye. Just off Manor Farm Rise is no different from any other place.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it is close to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and remains put, no matter how long it waits.
Put the keys indoors overnight — otherwise someone may take it off first thing — and call us. Top of Moor or Greenacres Fold: wherever your drive is, that is where it gets emptied. The pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Greenacres Fold?
Filled up, drove away, and before long the motor was running roughly, smoking, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Anywhere on Old Manor Farm Close or on the road to Manchester — under 10 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the system. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it too on a longer run, after your filter and pipework have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up anywhere sensible, then turn the motor off. On the A627(M), under 3 miles from Greenacres Fold, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No test restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Let us hear the mileage driven when you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel one, which you didn't know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Greater Manchester, no one is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. The owner often needs to approve the work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Sorting it before we arrives is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck by Greenacres Congregational Church or outside Mossley (Manchester) till someone answers, the vehicle stays turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Greenacres Fold?
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. A slight ammonia smell hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Spring Hill, or in a rush by Hey-with-Zion Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills around the filler don't reach your engine at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different story. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would suck it in.
Take it that it got in, and don't start your engine. Describe what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank checked is a happier outcome than a run one emptied.
What each AdBlue drain around Greenacres Fold has in common
Whatever the case, a single start applies. Anywhere your car stands — Farmers Boy's car park, a street beside Waterhead War Memorial, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and asks about the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has been run. Those replies settle the work, and you hear our price by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally come the fuel filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the car. If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is starting the car. With clean diesel in, it runs while we check it is running correctly, and then we go. When it's spotted quickly, the vehicle very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About Greenacres Fold itself
Greenacres Fold is a suburban area situated near the River Medlock in Greater Manchester, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Greenacres Fold sits at an elevation of 222 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape and providing views of the nearby moors. Greenacres Fold is located close to several nearby places, including Top of Moor, Greenacres, and Waterhead, and is approximately 8.3 miles from Manchester city centre.
Greenacres Fold and Greater Manchester: AdBlue drains across the area
Greenacres Fold is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Greenacres and Waterhead among them, across the OL postcode area. Quickest of all: a OL4 3 postcode for your location.
No moving is needed, be it parked centrally in Greenacres Fold or in a lay-by heading to Lees Park, and so leave it put. Where it sits, that's where it gets drained. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near Holy Trinity or close to a border, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The one-line version
Where it hasn't run, ring and leave it that way. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Greenacres Fold or wherever in Greater Manchester.