AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Primet Bridge: What Now?
Everything turns on one detail: if the motor has been run after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Over in Lenches or right in Primet Bridge, an unrun engine should stay that way. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where your car stands in Primet Bridge. When your motor has run, pull in safely first, then turn the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Wherever in Lancashire it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the petrol pump around Primet Bridge: AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. It might be the EG On the Move, or the Sainsbury's, or another forecourt around Primet Bridge.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. Only your tank holds AdBlue; no part past it has taken any in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — so do not get back in. Have the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Can't move the car by the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
Primet Bridge, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Houses just off Burnley Road are caught out as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle hasn't been driven since, it's second to the forecourt case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, be it around Primet Bridge or Bunkers Hill. Night-time empties outside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Primet Bridge?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two beyond the top-up. Perhaps it was on Knotts Lane, maybe on the way out towards Bradford, under 25 miles away.
The upshot: your system has drawn AdBlue through already. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like every mile, carries it on.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. On the M65, under a mile from Primet Bridge, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. About how far did it go? Say so as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have had this car hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is right by your diesel cap — news to you. Across Lancashire, nobody is immune.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Any work on your car frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet agreements.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. Leave the vehicle off while the reply arrives, even if you're parked at Colne or close to Pendle Leisure Centre.
Primet Bridge: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest answer there is. What cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Colne Primet Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Waterside.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no damage to the motor. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Any AdBlue in the tank would be sucked in by firing up the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it got in, and keep your engine off. Ring and give the details: we would rather find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once the motor has been run.
Primet Bridge: what every AdBlue drain has in common
No matter the situation, a single start is used. Wherever the vehicle is — The Queens's car park, a street beside Boundary Mill Stores, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and asks about the liquid, the quantity, and whether your engine has been run. On the phone, before dispatch, you hear our quote, and those replies shape the work too.
Then your tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Then comes your filter — flushed, or swapped where needed — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Not started? Then about half an hour on site is most jobs.
Firing it up comes last. We check it runs smoothly on fresh diesel before we leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it is spotted early, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into plenty of policies.
About Primet Bridge
Primet Bridge is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with a mix of terraced housing. Primet Bridge has a population of around 4911 people and is located near other local places such as Bunkers Hill and Church Clough. Primet Bridge sits at an elevation of 136 metres, relatively close to the nearby city of Bradford. Primet Bridge is part of the larger North West region of England, approximately 183.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Primet Bridge and across Lancashire
Being a residential suburb, Primet Bridge has the same vans as the surrounding places — Greenfield, Church Clough — all the way across BB postcodes. Telling us your BB8 8 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Millenium Green or in a car park in the middle of Primet Bridge, it doesn't need to move. Our technicians drain it where it sits. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Sacred Heart Catholic Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, phone and leave it that way. Run already: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Primet Bridge or wherever across Lancashire.