AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Nog Tow, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on a single detail: whether the motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Over in Cottam or right in Nog Tow, an unstarted engine should stay that way. Usually this is emptying and thoroughly rinsing it on the spot in Nog Tow — so leave your key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Anywhere in Lancashire it happened, one of the situations below matches yours.
At the pump in Nog Tow: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you realise the cap you took off wasn't the right one. It could be the BP, or perhaps the Hillcrest Service Station, or a different station in Nog Tow.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt after the car is in a bay — the attendants will help push it — then save the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed clear is cleared right at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Nog Tow drive?
For days the dash had been warning you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the drive. Right off Daisyfields is not less likely from any other place.
In short: if the vehicle has not been driven since, it's nearly as good as spotting it at the forecourt. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and waits. A night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Your driveway is where it is emptied, be it around Nog Tow or Tanterton. Even at night, the pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Nog Tow?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Perhaps it was on Wardale Close, maybe on the way out towards Preston, under 5 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Mileage decides how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and each injector. It travels deeper with each mile covered and each restart.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the first job — then switch everything off. Service stations further along are too far: on the M55, under a mile out of Nog Tow, use the first junction. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Ring us and say how far you drove.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It is a motor you have had for a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap sits right beside the diesel. Wherever you happen to be around Lancashire, every driver can slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Any work on the car often requires the owner's approval under hire or fleet agreements.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you are stranded in the car park outside Salwick, or by St Andrew and Blessed George Haydock Catholic Church, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Nog Tow?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia hangs by the filler. A rushed stop by the gates of Pool House Community Primary School, or a call to a friend in Lower Bartle: either fits.
The point: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue spilled around the filler. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, starting the car will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave your engine off. Call us and explain 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 each Nog Tow AdBlue drain
Whatever the situation, one opening is used. Our engineers come to the car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Guild Merchant or a side street near Preston Grasshoppers R.F.C., and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and if the engine has run. Your price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the job.
A thorough flush comes after the drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it's crucial, since deposits build up and some metals corrode, and none of that washes away unaided. Then is the filter — cleaned, or replaced where necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the car. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Starting it comes last. Before our technicians head off, it's checked to confirm it runs correctly on fresh diesel. Lasting damage is very unusual if it is spotted early, and the entire job is done where your car is. Paying is that day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Nog Tow itself
Nog Tow is a suburban area located inland in Lancashire, with an elevation of 39 metres, and is situated approximately 3 miles from Preston. Nog Tow sits near other local places such as Tanterton, Higher Bartle, and Lightfoot Green, and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Nog Tow is a relatively small community, with a population of around 3984 residents, and is some 192 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains round Nog Tow and across Lancashire
Nog Tow is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places near it too, Higher Bartle and Lightfoot Green among them, across the PR postcode area. Your location is quickest from a postcode beginning PR4 0.
Stopped heading to Miller Green, or right in the centre of Nog Tow, the car remains put — there's no need to shift it at all. The van drains it in place. Guessing won't help near Ingol Methodist Church, on a county line or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep it off and ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Nog Tow and anywhere in Lancashire on 0333 366 0103.