Raby Mere: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your motor has been started since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether your car is around Raby Mere itself or out in Spital. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Raby Mere, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. Already started? Pull over when safe, then switch everything off. A larger job, then, but the identical opening move.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Merseyside it happened.
On a Raby Mere forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
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. Maybe you are at the Texaco, possibly at the BP, perhaps somewhere else in Raby Mere.
The point: of all places to find out, the forecourt is the best. Only the tank has AdBlue; no component past it has drawn any in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. Can't move it by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Raby Mere drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened on the drive. Driveways near Raby Drive see it as much as any other street.
The upshot: no driving since leaves it nearly as good to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and stays put, however long it waits.
Next: prevent any early-morning drive by putting the keys in the house, then ring us. Our technicians drain the car on your drive, whether that's in Raby Mere or out in Brookhurst. The equipment runs quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Raby Mere: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the engine was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up your dash. It might have been driving to Liverpool, under 10 miles away, or just down Blakeley Court.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a longer run, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. It goes deeper with each mile driven and every restart.
Next: find a sensible spot, stop, and turn the motor off. Raby Mere lies under a mile from the M53; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on for the services. No trial starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue does. Call us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just had this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Merseyside.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts too — run or unrun — and one extra step. The owner often needs to approve any work, under many rental and company agreements.
Sorting it before we turn up is faster, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. If you're stranded in the car park at Bromborough, or by Holy Trinity, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Raby Mere?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. A hurried top-up by the gates of Brookhurst Primary School, or a visit to a friend in Bromborough: either fits.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't touch your motor at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Any AdBlue in your tank would be sucked in by starting your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Your move: behave as if it did, and don't start the engine. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it's been run — so phone and describe to us what you saw.
Every AdBlue drain around Raby Mere shares these steps
The job opens the same way, whichever your situation. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Dibbinsdale or a side street near Chapel of Saint Peter, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the engine has run. Those answers settle this work, and you get the quote on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally are the filter, flushed or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a check of the vehicle. Where the engine has not run, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most jobs.
Last, we start the car. With new diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running properly, and then we leave. Permanent damage is very unusual when it is caught soon, and the entire job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Raby Mere, briefly
Raby Mere is a small suburban area on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, situated near the coast and approximately 6 miles from Liverpool. Raby Mere has a relatively low elevation of 36 metres and is characterised by detached housing. Raby Mere is close to nearby places such as Brookhurst, Poulton, and Bebington, and is part of the larger North West region of England.
AdBlue drains around Raby Mere and across Merseyside
Throughout CH postcodes, the vans serving Raby Mere — a residential suburb — work nearby towns as well, Poulton and Bebington among them. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode that starts CH63 0.
Parked heading to Bromborough Golf Club, or right in the heart of Raby Mere, the vehicle remains where it is — there's no need to move it at all. Where it stands, that's where it is drained. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to Wirral Manor House or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your situation, in one line
Engine not started: ring, and leave it switched off. Run by now: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Raby Mere or anywhere in Merseyside.