What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Water Heyes
One thing counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has run afterwards. Out in Bull Hey or right around Water Heyes, an unrun motor must stay unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. Across Water Heyes, such a case is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Already started? Pull over when safe, then switch everything off. It's a larger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere around Greater Manchester you happen to be.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Water Heyes forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Be it Tesco, BP or somewhere else around Water Heyes, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. Three things: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from the forecourt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Water Heyes
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Drives near Greenough Street get it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided your vehicle has not moved since, it's close to the pump case. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing changes nothing.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. Longshoot or Water Heyes: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets drained. Night-time empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Water Heyes?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a short way after the fill. It might have been driving to Salford, under 15 miles away, or simply along Powell Street.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue up. The high-pressure pump and every injector see it too on a longer run, after the filter and pipework have it. More miles, more restarts: further it goes.
Next: pick a sensible place, pull in, then turn your engine off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the Bryn Spur, under 3 miles from Water Heyes. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us hear the mileage driven when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have just driven this car a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets are next to each other here — not like your own car, which has none or keeps it in another spot. Wherever you are in Greater Manchester, every driver could be caught.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, but with an added step. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Settling it before we arrives is faster, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Leave the vehicle off as the reply comes, even if you're parked at Wigan Wallgate or near George Formby Plaque.
Water Heyes: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. A hurried stop by the gates of St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School, or a visit to a friend in Wallgate: both fit.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to the engine. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't fire it up. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank checked counts as a happier outcome than a run one drained.
The common ground in each Water Heyes AdBlue drain
The work begins identically, whichever your case. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Sams Bar's car park, a road beside Saint John's Roman Catholic Church, a driveway, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks about the fluid, the quantity, and whether your motor has been run. The price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers shape the work.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it is essential, because deposits build up and some metals are attacked, and none of that washes out unaided. Clean diesel is put in after your filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment we get there.
Last, we start it. With new diesel in, it runs while we confirm it's running smoothly, and then we leave. When it is noticed soon, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover is included in plenty of policies.
About Water Heyes
Water Heyes is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated near the riverside and characterised by its predominantly terraced housing. Water Heyes has a population of around 8135 people and is located near other local places such as Longshoot and Scholes. Water Heyes sits at an elevation of 39 metres, relatively low compared to other areas in the region.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Water Heyes included
Scholes and Wigan have the identical vans as Water Heyes, a residential suburb, along with further towns throughout WN postcodes. Fastest of all: a WN1 3 postcode to show where you stand.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Platt Lane Play Area or in a car park in the middle of Water Heyes, it doesn't need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it is drained. Tricky to explain? By Church of Saint George or a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
The one-line version
Engine not started: phone, and leave it alone. Run already: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Water Heyes or anywhere across Greater Manchester.