Skippool: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This single point decides nearly everything about what comes next. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is around Skippool itself or out in Carleton. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor still off. In Skippool, that is generally emptied and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one remains unchanged, even though the work is bigger.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, anywhere in Lancashire you are.
On a Skippool forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you're standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. It could be the Applegreen, or the Texaco, or another forecourt around Skippool.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. Still in your tank, with no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a space, hold on to the bottle, then phone us from there. Can't move the vehicle beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt sensible, so we can drain the car in place.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Skippool drive?
On your dash, a reminder had been lit all week. A bottle bought at the shop, tipped in on the driveway — and it's only at the bin that the cap caught your eye. Just off Skippool Road is not different from anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the bottom of that tank sits where AdBlue waits, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Next: prevent any early drive by putting the keys indoors, then ring us. Out in Little Thornton or right here around Skippool, the draining happens at your drive. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road around Skippool with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Perhaps it was on B5412, possibly on the way out towards Preston, under 15 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. It has been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in somewhere safe — that's the next job — then turn everything off. On the M55, under 5 miles from Skippool, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. About what distance had it go? Tell us as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just driven the car a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit side by side here — unlike your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Wherever you are across Lancashire, every driver could slip up.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or not — and one extra stage. Any work on your car frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers get there than after. Hanging on for a reply at the car park outside Poulton-Le-Fylde, or beside YMCA Poulton Health and Fitness Centre? Keep your engine off meanwhile.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Skippool
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Poulton-le-Fylde the Breck Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Poulton-le-Fylde.
The point: your engine isn't harmed by some AdBlue splashed on the filler. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the vehicle will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave your motor off. Ring and give the details: we would sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one after the motor has been run.
Skippool: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. We come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside Thornton Lodge or a side street near St John's, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if your engine has been run. Your price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Clean diesel is put in after the filter is cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally checked. Where your engine has not been started, allow about half an hour on site, in most jobs.
Lastly, our technicians fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while our technicians confirm it is running smoothly, and then we go. Our technicians do the entire job where the car is, and long-term damage is very unusual when it has been spotted early. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Skippool, briefly
Skippool is a small suburban area located on the coast of Lancashire, with a low elevation of around 8 metres above sea level. Skippool sits near the communities of Little Thornton and Little Poulton, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Skippool is situated near the larger city of Preston, which is approximately 13 miles away.
AdBlue drains about Skippool and across Lancashire
Breedy Butts and Little Poulton have the same vans as Skippool, a residential suburb, plus further towns throughout FY postcodes. Giving us your FY5 5 postcode pins you fastest of all.
No towing is needed, be it parked centrally in Skippool or in a layby en route to Thornton Cleveleys Cricket Club, so leave it where it is. The drain happens right there. Assuming doesn't help beside Moorland Tennis Club, close to a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Your scenario, summed up
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle that way and phone. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Lancashire and in Skippool — once you stop, turn off and phone, if it has run.