Trench Lock: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your engine has been started afterwards. Over in Wrockwardine Wood or right around Trench Lock, an unrun motor must stay unrun. Usually this is draining and properly flushing it right there in Trench Lock — so keep your key and motor off and phone 0333 366 0103. When your motor has been run, stop safely first, then switch the car off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same opening step.
Compare your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere across Shropshire you happen to be.
On a Trench Lock 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. Perhaps you're at the Esso, perhaps at the another forecourt nearby, maybe somewhere else around Trench Lock.
The upshot: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. Still in that tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us right there. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, so a car that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Trench Lock
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. A bottle from the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it's just at the recycling that the cap got a second look. Just off Patchett Drive is no different from any other place.
The point: zero driving since makes this almost as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Keep your keys indoors overnight — or a person may drive it off at breakfast — and phone us. In Wombridge or right here in Trench Lock, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road in Trench Lock with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way beyond the top-up. Somewhere on Sommerfeld Road or on the road towards Wolverhampton — under 25 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It has been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a safe spot, pull in, then switch the engine off. Leave at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M54, under 3 miles from Trench Lock. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Tell us hear the mileage driven when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had this car hardly a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are next to each other here — not like your own car, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Across Shropshire, no one is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts here — run or unrun — plus one further stage. The owner often needs to sign off the work, under plenty of hire and fleet agreements.
Settling it before the van arrives is faster, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded by Blockleys Chimney or outside Oakengates until the firm replies, the car remains switched off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Trench Lock
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia-like smell hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Teagues Bridge Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Hadley Castle.
The upshot: your engine is not harmed by some AdBlue spilled on the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the vehicle would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, and leave your motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Trench Lock: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the situation, one opening is used. We come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Blue Pig or a side street close to Jungleland, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if the engine has run. Replies set the job; the quote comes by phone whilst nobody has set off yet.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, so it won't wash out on its own; that's why the flush, after the drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Last are the filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your vehicle. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment our technicians turn up.
Last, we start the engine. Before we go, it is checked to make sure it runs correctly on new diesel. If it's caught early, the car very rarely has long-term damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Many policies include misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Trench Lock, briefly
Trench Lock is a suburban area in Shropshire, situated near the settlements of Wombridge, Trench, and Hadley. Trench Lock lies inland, approximately 16 miles from Wolverhampton, and its elevation is around 89 metres above sea level. Trench Lock is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the typical residential development of the West Midlands region.
Trench Lock and Shropshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Trench and Hadley have the same vans as Trench Lock, a residential suburb, plus other places over TF postcodes. Telling us a TF1 5 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Central Trench Lock or a lay-by near Common Green: wherever it is, the vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for us. The van drains it in place. Ring and check rather than guess if you're by St Mary and St Leonard, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then call. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Trench Lock and anywhere across Shropshire on 0333 366 0103.