AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Hunger Hill: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the motor has run since it got in. Wherever the vehicle stands — Lostock Junction, Hunger Hill — never run an engine that hasn't been started yet. Usually that is emptying and thoroughly cleaning it on the spot in Hunger Hill — so leave your key and motor off then call 0333 366 0103. Stop the minute you safely can and turn off, if it has already run. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Greater Manchester it happened.
Hunger Hill forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Shell, BP or anywhere else around Hunger Hill, the case is identical.
In short: there is no better place to be to discover it. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump needs freeing. A few things: a push into a space with the attendants assisting, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Draining it right at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Hunger Hill
On the dash, a warning had been lit all week. Picked up a bottle, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and at that point checked the cap a second time, too late. It takes place on driveways just off Hunger Hill Avenue as regularly as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the pump case. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue settles low inside the tank and waits. One night standing changes none of that.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — otherwise someone might take it off first thing — then call us. In Chequerbent or here in Hunger Hill, the drain is done at your driveway. Late-night drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Hunger Hill?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Possibly it was on Wigan Road, maybe on the way out towards Salford, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Distance sets how far it gets: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Stop safely — that is the next step — then turn everything off. Services farther along can wait: from the M61, under a mile out of Hunger Hill, use the next junction. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us hear the mileage driven when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've just had the vehicle a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is just by your diesel cap — news to you. Wherever you happen to be in Greater Manchester, every driver can slip up.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies too — run or unrun — plus one further stage. Plenty of rental and company agreements need the owner's sign-off for work.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us next, because settling it early saves time. Leave the car off while the answer arrives, even if you are waiting at Lostock or near Sutton Estate Community Centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Hunger Hill?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Sound familiar? A rushed stop by the gates of Beaumont Primary School, or a call to a friend in Over Hulton: either fit.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the vehicle will suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Your move: behave as though it got in, and never start the motor. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain in Hunger Hill shares these steps
Whatever the situation, a single start applies. Wherever your car is — Tavern Fayre's car park, a street beside Chew Moor Methodist Church, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and we ask for the fluid, the quantity, plus whether the engine has been run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear our price, and those answers decide the work too.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel is put in after your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is finally tested. Where your motor hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most jobs.
The last step is starting the engine. With clean diesel in, it runs while we make sure it's running correctly, and then we go. Our technicians do the whole job where the car is, and permanent damage is very uncommon when it has been spotted quickly. Paying is that day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Hunger Hill
Hunger Hill is a village in Greater Manchester, situated near the lakeside with an elevation of 139 metres. Hunger Hill lies approximately 9.5 miles from Salford and is surrounded by nearby places such as Chequerbent, Chew Moor, and Fernhill Gate. Hunger Hill has a population of around 1022 residents, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type in the area.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Hunger Hill included
As a village, Hunger Hill has the same vans as the nearby places — Fernhill Gate, Chew Moor — all the way across BL postcodes. Your location comes clearest from a postcode beginning BL3 4.
Stopped heading to Gorse Wood, or right in the heart of Hunger Hill, the vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to move it anywhere. The drain is done on the spot. Ring and ask rather than guess when you are by Hulton Lane Community Centre, on a border, or somewhere awkward to explain.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever it is, in Hunger Hill and Greater Manchester, on 0333 366 0103.