Lostock Junction: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine run since the AdBlue got in? This single point settles nearly everything about what comes next. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is in Lostock Junction itself or out in Markland Hill. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. Across Lostock Junction, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, yes, but the same first move.
Below: the cases our technicians meet, anywhere in Greater Manchester. Choose yours.
At the pump around Lostock Junction: AdBlue in a diesel
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. Maybe you are at the Shell, possibly at the BP, possibly somewhere else around Lostock Junction.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to run it — and so don't get back in. A few jobs: a shove into a bay with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a car that can't be pushed clear gets drained right at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Lostock Junction
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd opened at the drive. Drives near Junction Road West get it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. On the floor of the tank sits where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Next: prevent an early-morning drive by putting the keys indoors, then phone us. Fernhill Gate or Lostock Junction: whichever your driveway is, that is where it gets drained. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Lostock Junction?
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. Perhaps it was on Pendennis Avenue, possibly on the way out towards Salford, under 15 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a longer trip, once your filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a sensible place, pull in, and switch your motor off. Services farther along are too far: on the M61, under a mile out of Lostock Junction, use the first junction. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Phone, and say what distance your car was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had the vehicle barely a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap was just next to your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Greater Manchester.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Many hire and company agreements require the owner's sign-off before work.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it early saves time. Leave the car switched off as the reply arrives, whether you're parked outside Lostock or close to St Thomas & St John Lostock Parish Church.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Lostock Junction
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Lostock Primary School in a hurry, say, or someone's driveway out in Deane.
The upshot: your engine isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be sucked in by turning on your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Assume it was put in, and don't turn the engine. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Lostock Junction AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three questions are asked when our technicians arrive — at a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Chew Moor Methodist Church or the car park outside Beaumont Arms: the fluid, the quantity, and if the motor has been started. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told the quote, and those answers decide the work too.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a careful flush — more important with urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Fresh diesel goes in once the filter has been flushed or changed, and the car is then tested. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Starting the engine comes last. We check it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we leave. Lasting damage is very rare when it's spotted quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Worth remembering: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy while we travel is worthwhile.
About Lostock Junction
Lostock Junction is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near several lakes and waterways at an elevation of around 132 metres. Lostock Junction lies within commuting distance of Salford and other major urban centres in the North West, with nearby places including Fernhill Gate, Chew Moor, and Hunger Hill. Lostock Junction is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its development as a residential area.
AdBlue drains round Lostock Junction and across Greater Manchester
Chew Moor and Hunger Hill have the identical vans as Lostock Junction, a residential suburb, along with other towns throughout BL postcodes. A postcode starting BL6 4 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Ravens Wood or in a car park in the middle of Lostock Junction, it doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits, that's where it is emptied. Ring and ask rather than guess if you're close to Christ Church Heaton Church of England, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: ring, and leave it alone. Run already: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Lostock Junction or wherever in Greater Manchester.