Strangeways: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started afterwards. Over in The Cliff or right around Strangeways, an unrun engine should stay unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Strangeways, that is generally emptied and flushed where it stands. Stop the minute it is safe and switch off, if it has been run. It is a bigger job, yet stage one does not change.
Wherever across Greater Manchester it took place, one of the situations below fits yours.
At the pump around Strangeways: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it while you are stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Be it Gulf, Texaco or anywhere else around Strangeways, the situation is the same.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Only the tank holds AdBlue; no part beyond it has taken it in.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up just to free up the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
At home in Strangeways with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the driveway. It takes place on drives just off Blacklock Street as often as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. At the floor of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by makes no difference.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. In Cheetham Hill or here in Strangeways, the drain happens on your driveway. Our equipment runs quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
On the road in Strangeways with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the fill. Perhaps it was on Sherborne Street, possibly on the way out towards Manchester, under 3 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. Mileage decides how far it gets: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. More driving, more restarts: further it goes.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the first job — then switch everything off. Strangeways lies under 3 miles from the Mancunian Way; there, pull off at the next junction rather than pressing on to the services. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've only driven this car for days. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the inlet is right by the diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Anyone, wherever across Greater Manchester, could do the same.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts require the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is faster. If you are stuck in the car park at Manchester Victoria, or by Zain Hub Creative Workspace, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Strangeways?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think it did. A slight ammonia smell hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. A hurried stop by the gates of Cheetwood Primary School, or a visit to a friend in HIgher Broughton: either fit.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no damage to the motor. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another story. If there is AdBlue in that tank, turning on the car would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Take it that it went in, and never turn your key. Phone with the details: we'd sooner confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after the motor has run.
Each AdBlue drain around Strangeways shares these stages
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Forecourt, driveway, Derby Brewery Arms's car park or a street by Jamia-Tul-Muntazir Manchester — our van reaches your car, and three questions come next: which liquid, what amount, and if it has run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told our quote, and those replies shape the work too.
Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a full flush — more important with urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Next comes your filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Never started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Lastly, we start the engine. Our check that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before we leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's noticed soon, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Payment comes that day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Strangeways, for a moment
Strangeways is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the River Irwell and close to the city centre of Manchester. Strangeways has a relatively low elevation of 52 metres and is characterised by a high proportion of flat dwellings. Strangeways is located near several other suburban areas, including Cheetham Hill, Lower Broughton, and Collyhurst, and is home to a population of approximately 6264 people.
AdBlue drains round Strangeways and across Greater Manchester
As a residential suburb, Strangeways has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Collyhurst, Lower Broughton — right through M postcodes. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning M8 8.
No towing is needed, be it parked in the centre of Strangeways or on a lay-by en route to Cheetham Park, so leave it put. Where it stands, that's where it gets drained. If you're somewhere hard to describe, near Manchester Jewish Museum or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Greater Manchester and within Strangeways — after you pull over, turn off then ring, if it's run.