AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Northop: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your engine has been run since it got in. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Northop Hall, Northop — don't run a motor that has not been started yet. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush after a drain, carried out just where your vehicle sits in Northop. Stop the minute you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. Stage one stays the same, even though the work grows.
Wherever across Flintshire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Northop forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it Shell, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else around Northop, the case is identical.
The point: of every spot to notice, this is the best. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the pump wants freeing. A few jobs: a push into a bay with the staff assisting, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the petrol pump is possible when it cannot be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Northop with AdBlue in the 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 once more at the cap. Houses just off Pilgrims Close are hit as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? As long as the vehicle hasn't moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then ring. In Flint Mountain or here around Northop, the draining is done at your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Northop: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been driving to Chester, under 15 miles away, or just along Brook Street.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue up. Through your filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Next: pick a sensible place, stop, and turn the engine off. Northop sits under 10 miles from the M56; there, pull off at the first junction instead of pushing on for the services. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Tell us hear the distance driven when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've just had the car a week. Unknown to you, the two inlets are next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it in another spot. Any driver, wherever around Flintshire, could make it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner often has to approve the work, under plenty of rental and company agreements.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Leave the car off as the reply comes, even if you're waiting outside Flint or close to The Edith Bankes Memorial Institute.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Northop?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Rhosesmor.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to your motor. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Turning on your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would pull it in.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not fire it up. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain in Northop shares these steps
Each situation has the same opening to the job. Forecourt, driveway, The Boot's car park or a street beside Church of Saint Eurgain and Saint Peter — the van comes to the vehicle, and three answers come next: what liquid, what amount, and whether it ran. Those replies settle this work, and you hear our quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it is essential, because deposits form and some metals corrode, and none of that rinses out unaided. Fresh diesel goes in once the fuel filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, expect about half an hour on site, in most cases.
We fire it up last. Before our engineers head off, it is tested to make sure it runs properly on clean diesel. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's spotted soon, long-term damage is very rare. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Many policies include misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Northop
Northop is a small village in Flintshire, situated near the coast and approximately 10 miles from Chester. Northop sits at an elevation of 101 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby Flint Mountain. Northop has a population of around 1030 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
Northop and Flintshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Northop is a coastal village, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Soughton and Cefn-eurgain among them, across the CH postcode area. Fastest of all: a CH7 6 postcode for your location.
Centre of Northop or a lay-by near Lower Lodge: either way it sits, the vehicle never needs to shift an inch for this drain. Where it sits, that's where it gets drained. Phone and check instead of guessing if you're by Soughton Hall, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Leave it off and phone. Run already: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Northop or anywhere across Flintshire.