Meir Heath: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your motor has been started since. Not started so far? Then keep the vehicle that way, wherever your vehicle is — Meir Heath or Lightwood. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, done just where the vehicle stands in Meir Heath. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then switch everything off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Staffordshire it happened.
Meir Heath 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. Anywhere around Meir Heath, then — the nearest petrol station, BP, or anywhere else close by.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — so don't get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking spot, keep the receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away gets cleared where it is at the pump.
At home in Meir Heath with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. 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. Drives close to Common Lane see it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of the tank sits where AdBlue stays, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Keep the keys in the house overnight — or a person may drive it away at breakfast — then call us. Our engineers drain it on your drive, whether that is around Meir Heath or out in Leadendale. The pumping kit runs quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Meir Heath: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. Somewhere along Heatherlands Close or else on the road towards Stoke-on-Trent — under 10 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue up. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a bigger run, after the filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. On the M6, under 5 miles from Meir Heath, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, and say how far your car was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had the car barely a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, so no one told you the AdBlue inlet was just beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Staffordshire.
Meaning? Whatever case above applies too — run or unrun — and one extra stage. Any work on the car often requires the owner's approval under hire or company agreements.
Sorting it before we turn up is quicker, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Leave the vehicle off as the answer arrives, whether you're waiting at Blythe Bridge or near St Matthew.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Meir Heath
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Matthews Church of England Academy, or on a friend's drive in Stallington.
In short: a spill near your filler does your engine unharmed. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up your car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: assume it went in, and keep the motor off. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Meir Heath AdBlue drain
Every case has the same opening to the work. Filling station, drive, The Windmill's car park or a road beside St Francis of Assisi — the van reaches your vehicle, and three answers follow: which liquid, which amount, and whether it has run. Those replies decide this work, and you get the price by phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out unaided; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Then comes your filter — flushed, or replaced where necessary — then fresh diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Our check that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before we go. Our engineers do the whole job where your car is, and long-term damage is very uncommon when it has been noticed soon. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is included in many policies.
About Meir Heath, briefly
Meir Heath is a suburban area located in Staffordshire, situated approximately 5 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Meir Heath sits at an elevation of 252 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside. Meir Heath is characterised by its semi-detached housing and is close to nearby places such as Leadendale and Barlaston Common.
AdBlue drains across Staffordshire, Meir Heath included
Throughout ST postcodes, the teams covering Meir Heath — a residential suburb — work nearby towns too, Barlaston Common and Rough Close among them. Quickest of all: a ST3 7 postcode to show where you stand.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Grindley Park or in a car park in the middle of Meir Heath, it does not need to shift. The drain is done right there. Phone and ask instead of guessing when you're close to Meir Heath and Rough Close Village Hall, on a border, or somewhere tricky to explain.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Leave it off then ring. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Staffordshire and in Meir Heath — after you pull over, turn off and phone, if it's run.