Towns Moor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has been started afterwards. Wherever the vehicle stands — The Wrangling, Towns Moor — don't start a motor that hasn't run yet. Usually that means draining and properly rinsing it right there in Towns Moor — so keep your key and motor off then phone 0333 366 0103. Already run? Pull over when safe, then switch everything off. It is a larger job, though step one doesn't change.
Below: the cases our technicians meet, wherever in Lancashire. Pick yours.
At the pump in Towns Moor: AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Anywhere in Towns Moor, then — Asda, Texaco, or anywhere else close by.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to start it just to move away from the pump. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking spot, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a busy forecourt safe, so it can be drained where it is.
At home in Towns Moor with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Homes just off Bolton Road are caught out as often as everywhere else.
The point: zero driving since leaves it almost equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Your move: the keys indoors, so no one takes your vehicle anywhere first thing. Then, phone. Out in Nova Scotia or here around Towns Moor, the draining is done at your driveway. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Towns Moor?
Topped up, drove away, and before long the motor was turning roughly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Perhaps it was on Wainwright Way, maybe on the way out towards Preston, under 10 miles away.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue in by now. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, and turn your engine off. Services farther on are too far: from the M65, under 3 miles out of Towns Moor, use the first junction. It won't have cleared, and so there's no sense restarting to check. Phone, and say how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be around Lancashire, every driver can slip up.
In short: an extra step on top of the cases above, which turn on if it's run. The owner often needs to approve any work, under plenty of hire and company contracts.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we get there than after. Leave the vehicle switched off as the answer arrives, even if you are parked outside Blackburn or close to TK Maxx.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Towns Moor
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn, or on a friend's drive in Grimshaw Park.
Put simply: spillage round the filler leaves the motor no harm. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be sucked in by turning on the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Your move: act as if it got in, and don't start your engine. Ring and give the details: we would sooner confirm a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once the engine has run.
Each AdBlue drain around Towns Moor shares these steps
No matter the situation, one start is used. Filling station, driveway, Clifton Arms's car park or a road beside Elim Pentecostal Church — the van comes to your car, and three questions follow: what liquid, which quantity, and whether it ran. Those answers decide this work, and you hear the price by phone, before anybody sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some metals in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more here than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers arrive.
The final step is firing it up. Our test that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before our technicians leave. If it is caught quickly, the vehicle very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Worth knowing: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents while we travel pays.
About Towns Moor and where it is
Towns Moor is a suburban area in Lancashire, situated on the riverside with a mix of terraced housing. Towns Moor has a population of around 5697 people and is located near other local places such as Nova Scotia and Lower Audley. Towns Moor sits at an elevation of 119 metres, close to the city of Preston, which is approximately 8.9 miles away. Towns Moor is part of the wider Preston urban area, with London being around 183.2 miles to the south.
AdBlue drains across Lancashire, Towns Moor included
Being a residential suburb, Towns Moor shares its vans with the nearby places — Park Place, Lower Audley — right across BB postcodes. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning BB2 3.
Centre of Towns Moor or a layby near Griffin Park: wherever it is, the vehicle doesn't need to shift at all for us. Our van empties it in place. Awkward to explain? By Blackburn Arena or a county line? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and ring. Run by now: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Towns Moor or wherever across Lancashire.