Irelands Cross: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of it hinges on a single detail: whether your engine has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Irelands Cross itself or out in Knighton. Call 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor still off. In Irelands Cross, such a case is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Below: the situations we meet, wherever across Shropshire. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Irelands Cross forecourt
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. Maybe you're at the Baldwins Gate Filling Station, maybe at the Shell, perhaps somewhere else around Irelands Cross.
Put simply: no better place exists to discover it. Only your tank has AdBlue; no part beyond it has taken any in.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Ring us from the forecourt after the vehicle sits in a space — the attendants will help roll it — then save the receipt. Can't move it by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt safe, and so we can drain it where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Irelands Cross drive?
Several days had passed with the warning light on. A bottle bought at the shop, tipped in at the driveway — and it's only at the bin that the cap caught a second look. It happens on drives just off Nantwich Road as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of the tank sits where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing changes no difference.
Your move: keys indoors, so no one takes the vehicle anywhere first thing. After that, phone. In Dorrington or right here in Irelands Cross, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Irelands Cross: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe driving for Stoke-on-Trent, under 15 miles away, or just down London Road.
Meaning? Your pump has taken the AdBlue in. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, then switch your engine off. Irelands Cross lies under 5 miles from the M6; there, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on to the services. It will not have cleared, so there is no sense restarting to check. Let us know the distance driven as you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
A week back, the car was new to you. Unbeknown to you, the two inlets sit side by side here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Wherever you are across Shropshire, every motorist could slip up.
The point: just as above, divided by whether it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we arrive than after. If you are stuck in the car park at Nantwich, or by Knighton Village Hall, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Irelands Cross: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near the filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Woore Primary and Nursery School, or on a friend's drive in Bulkeley Hall.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. Starting the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't start it. Ring and give what you saw: we'd rather confirm a clean tank than empty one after your motor has been run.
The common ground in each Irelands Cross AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Wherever your car is — Chetwode Arms's car park, a road by Woore Methodist Church, a drive, a forecourt — our van gets there and we ask about the liquid, the amount, plus if the motor has turned over. Replies set the job; the price comes by phone while nobody has left yet.
Draining that tank comes first, then a full flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Not started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Our engineers fire it up at the end. Our check that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before we head off. When it is noticed early, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Irelands Cross and where it is
Irelands Cross is a small hamlet in Shropshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 130 metres. Irelands Cross lies near the villages of Dorrington and Woore, and is approximately 10 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Irelands Cross is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Irelands Cross is a relatively small community, with a population of around 522 people.
AdBlue drains across Shropshire, Irelands Cross included
Over CW postcodes, the teams serving Irelands Cross — a rural hamlet — work surrounding towns too, Pipe Gate and Woore among them. The location comes clearest from a postcode beginning CW3 9.
Central Irelands Cross or a layby towards Knighton Cutting: either way it is, the vehicle never needs to shift an inch for the drain. Our van empties it in place. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to St. Leonard or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Keep the car that way and phone. Run already: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Irelands Cross or wherever in Shropshire.