What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ireleth
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it got in. Over in Dunnerholme or right around Ireleth, an unstarted engine must stay unrun. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, done just where your vehicle sits around Ireleth. When your engine has run, pull in somewhere safe first, then switch it off. A larger job, then, but the same first move.
Match your case to one of the list below, wherever around Cumbria you happen to be.
Ireleth forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are 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. Perhaps you are at the the nearest petrol station, maybe at the Shell, possibly somewhere else around Ireleth.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed clear is emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Ireleth
On the dash, a warning had been lit all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. It happens on drives just off Pryors Walk as regularly as anywhere.
The point: no miles since leaves it nearly equal to spotting it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: the keys indoors, so nobody drives your car off first thing. After that, ring. Your drive is where it gets emptied, whether around Ireleth or Askam in Furness. The equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Ireleth?
A short way beyond topping up, the engine started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. It might have been driving to Lancaster, under 25 miles away, or just along High Duddon Close.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue through by now. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and lines to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so then switch off. Services further on can wait: from the M6, under 25 miles out of Ireleth, use the first junction. It won't have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to find out. Tell us hear the mileage covered as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week ago, it was new to you. Unknown to you, the two fillers are next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or stores it in another spot. Any driver, wherever in Cumbria, might make it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company contracts require the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Sorting it before we turn up is faster, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Askam, or by St Peters, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Ireleth: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Look familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Ireleth St Peter's CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Marton.
Meaning? Spills around the filler never reach your engine at all. If it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in your tank, starting your car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it got in, and don't start the motor. Phone with what you saw: we'd rather find a clean tank than empty one once the motor has run.
Ireleth: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three questions come once our technicians reach your car — on a filling station, a drive, a street beside Askam Library or the car park at Railway Inn: the fluid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. The price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and the answers set the job.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why a full flush, after this drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Finally are the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the vehicle. Where your engine has not been started, allow about half an hour once we arrive, for most cases.
The final step is starting it. With clean diesel in, it runs while our technicians check it is running properly, and then we head off. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it's caught soon, lasting damage is very rare. Nothing is taken upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Ireleth and where it is
Ireleth is a small suburban area situated on the coast of Cumbria, with a population of around 1515 people. Ireleth sits at an elevation of 28 metres, looking out over the coastal landscape, and is located near other local places such as Askam in Furness and Greenscoe. Ireleth is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, reflecting the residential nature of the area. Ireleth is also relatively distant from London, at around 225 miles away, but is closer to the city of Lancaster, which is approximately 19 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Ireleth, and across Cumbria too
Ireleth is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Paradise and Greenscoe among them, across the LA postcode area. Your location is clearest from a postcode beginning LA16 7.
Central Ireleth or a layby towards Askam Ireleth Memorial Garden: either way it is, the car doesn't need to shift at all for the drain. The drain happens on the spot. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Askam & Ireleth Community Centre or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
If it has not run, phone then leave it that way. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Ireleth and anywhere around Cumbria on 0333 366 0103.