Whitworth: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue went in? This one point decides nearly everything else from here. Out in Millgate or here around Whitworth, an unstarted motor must stay unrun. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush plus a drain, carried out right where the vehicle stands around Whitworth. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, then, but the same opening step.
Further down: the situations our engineers see, anywhere around Lancashire. Choose yours.
On a Whitworth forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are 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. Whether Texaco, Shell or anywhere else in Whitworth, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it gets. Still inside the tank, and nothing drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and save the bottle. Stuck beside the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
At home around Whitworth with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Drives close to Middle Street see it as much as anywhere.
The point: no driving since makes this almost equal to spotting it at the pump. On the floor of that tank sits where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
Your move: keys indoors, and so nobody takes your vehicle off at breakfast. Then, phone. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that's around Whitworth or out in Fold Head. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Whitworth?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was running unevenly, smoking, down on power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere along Size Street or on the road towards Manchester — under 15 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger run, once the filter and pipework have had it. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Services farther along can wait: on the A627(M), under 5 miles out of Whitworth, use the first junction. Starting it again to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Tell us hear the distance covered when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had this vehicle barely a week. Unknown to you, the two inlets sit side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anyone, wherever across Lancashire, could make the same.
The upshot: just as above, divided by whether it ran, but with an added stage. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or company agreements.
Your move: rental firm or fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it beforehand saves time. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside Smithy Bridge, or beside St Bartholomew? Keep the engine off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Whitworth?
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Broadley Fold.
The upshot: the motor isn't harmed by some AdBlue spilled around the outside. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Turning on the vehicle won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would draw it in.
Next: act as though it went in, and leave your motor off. Describe what you saw on the phone. A clear tank checked is a happier outcome than a run one emptied.
Whitworth: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, drive, Cock and Magpie's car park or a road by The Ashcroft — the van reaches the car, and three questions come next: what liquid, what amount, and if it has run. Those answers settle this work, and you hear our quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is emptied and your system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Clean diesel goes in once your filter has been flushed or replaced, and your car is then tested. Where the motor hasn't run, allow about half an hour on site, for most cases.
The final step is starting it. Before we go, it is checked to be sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel. Our engineers do the whole job where the car is, and permanent damage is very unusual when it has been caught soon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. It is worth knowing: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy while we travel is worthwhile.
About Whitworth and where it is
Whitworth is a town situated in the Rossendale hills of Lancashire, overlooking the lakes and valleys of the area. Whitworth sits at an elevation of 227 metres, with Fold Head and Facit nearby, and is located 12.8 miles from Manchester. Whitworth has a population of approximately 5875 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Whitworth is also 171.7 miles from London, making it a relatively distant but still accessible town.
AdBlue drains around Whitworth, and across Lancashire too
Whitworth is a town, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Facit and Wallbank among them, across the OL postcode area. Giving us your OL12 8 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Central Whitworth or a layby towards Whitworth Memorial Gardens: either way it sits, your car doesn't need to move at all for the drain. Draining happens right there. Phone and check instead of guessing when you're close to St John the Evangelist, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to explain.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Leave it off then ring. Run already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, in Whitworth and Lancashire, on 0333 366 0103.