High Crompton: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one fact: if the motor has started since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is in High Crompton itself or out in Cowlishaw. Leave your motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around High Crompton. Pull over the moment you safely can then switch off, if it has already run. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Further down: the situations our engineers see, anywhere in Greater Manchester. Choose the one that fits.
At the pump in High Crompton: AdBlue in a diesel
Only now, nozzle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It might be the Shell, or the Red Rose Filling Station, or another forecourt around High Crompton.
In short: no better spot to be to spot it. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no excuse to start it — so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Can't move it by the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt sensible, so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in High Crompton
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the drive. Drives near Fitton Street get it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: no driving since makes it nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of your tank and remains there, however long the night.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. Lower Rushcroft or High Crompton: whichever your drive sits, that is where it is cleared. Our equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around High Crompton?
A mile or two beyond filling up, the engine began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Maybe heading for Manchester, under 10 miles away, or just down The Brock.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. It travels deeper with every extra mile driven and each restart.
Stop safely — that's the first job — then switch it off. On the M62, under 3 miles from High Crompton, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, and so there's no sense starting it again to check. Ring us and say how far you drove.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had this vehicle barely a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is right next to your diesel cap — news to you. Throughout Greater Manchester, nobody is immune.
In short: one extra stage on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it has run. The owner often needs to approve any work, under plenty of rental and fleet contracts.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Stranded near St Mary or at Rochdale until the firm answers, your car remains switched off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around High Crompton?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think it did. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear memory of which cap. Sound familiar? Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton, or on a friend's drive in Shaw.
The upshot: the motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, starting the car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it got in, and never start your engine. Checking a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than emptying one after it has been run — so phone then tell us what you noticed.
High Crompton: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the case, one start applies. Three questions come once our engineers reach the car — at a forecourt, a drive, a street by Holy Trinity or the car park outside Old Bulls Head: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has run. Those answers determine the work, and you hear the quote on the phone, before anyone heads out.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals form and some metals corrode, and neither rinses away unaided. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Starting the engine comes last. We check it runs smoothly on clean diesel before we go. The entire job is done where your car is, and if it's spotted quickly, permanent damage is very rare. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes built into many policies.
About High Crompton and where it is
High Crompton is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated approximately 9 miles northeast of Manchester city centre. High Crompton sits at an elevation of 216 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside. High Crompton is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with nearby places including Lower Rushcroft and Low Crompton.
AdBlue drains round High Crompton and across Greater Manchester
High Crompton is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Low Crompton and Narrow Gate Brow among them, across the OL postcode area. A postcode starting OL2 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to High Crompton Park or in a car park in the middle of High Crompton, it doesn't need to shift. We drain the vehicle where it is. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to Crompton Library, on a border, or anywhere tricky to explain.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Keep the car off and ring. Started by now? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever it is, across High Crompton and Greater Manchester, on 0333 366 0103.