AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Norbreck: What Now?
Has your engine run since the AdBlue got in? That single question decides almost everything else from here. Wherever the vehicle stands — Anchorsholme, Norbreck — never run a motor that hasn't run yet. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out just where your vehicle stands in Norbreck. Stop the minute it is safe then turn off, if it has already run. A bigger job, then, yet the identical first move.
Anywhere around Lancashire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Norbreck forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. It might be the Esso, or perhaps the Morrisons, or a different station in Norbreck.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Still inside that tank, and nothing pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking spot, keep your receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Norbreck, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the driveway. Houses just off Kirkstone Drive get hit as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it is second to the forecourt case. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops to the base in your tank and waits. One night standing changes none of that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Out in Little Bispham or here in Norbreck, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Norbreck?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere on Elmbank Avenue or heading towards Preston — under 25 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the system. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a bigger run, once your filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a sensible place, pull in, and turn the engine off. Exit by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M55, under 10 miles from Norbreck. It will not have cleared, and so there's no point restarting to check. Phone, and say what distance the car went.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the two inlets sit next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Throughout Lancashire, nobody is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or unrun — plus one extra step. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off for repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we get there than after. If you're stuck in the car park at Layton, or by Bispham Junior Football Club, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Norbreck: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Norbreck Primary Academy in a hurry, say, or a friend's driveway over in Norcross.
Put simply: a spill round the filler leaves the engine no harm. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the vehicle will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Assume it got in, and don't turn your engine. Ring us and explain 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 every Norbreck AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Three things are asked when our engineers reach the car — on a forecourt, a drive, a road by 1st Norbreck Scouts or the car park at Golden Eagle: the fluid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our price, and those answers decide the job too.
A thorough flush comes after the drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it's crucial, since crystals build up and certain metals are attacked, and none of it rinses out unaided. Finally come your filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the car. If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Our engineers fire it up last. Our engineers confirm it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we leave. We do the entire job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual when it has been caught soon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Check your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover is included in plenty of policies.
About Norbreck itself
Norbreck is a coastal suburban area in Lancashire, situated near the towns of Little Bispham and Bispham. Norbreck lies at a low elevation of around 11 metres, close to the sea. Norbreck has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. Norbreck is located approximately 15.7 miles from Preston and 203.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Norbreck and across Lancashire
Over FY postcodes, the teams covering Norbreck — a residential suburb — reach nearby towns too, Whiteholme and Bispham among them. The whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode beginning FY5 1.
No towing is required, whether parked in the centre of Norbreck or on a lay-by en route to Blackpool RUFC, and so leave it where it is. Draining is done right there. If you're somewhere hard to describe, near All Hallows Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever case, across Norbreck and Lancashire, on 0333 366 0103.