AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Winewall: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has run since it went in. Over in Hollin Hall or here in Winewall, an unrun engine must remain that way. Leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Winewall. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Step one stays unchanged, even if the job is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Lancashire it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Winewall forecourt
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. Be it Sainsbury's, EG On the Move or anywhere else in Winewall, the situation is identical.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Ring us from the forecourt after your car is in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — and keep the bottle. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
Winewall, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the dash, a warning had been lit all week. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Houses just off Skipton Road are hit as often as anywhere else.
The upshot: zero miles since makes it almost as good to spotting it at the pump. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base in your tank and waits. One night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Winewall or Cotton Tree. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a driveway.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Winewall?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Maybe driving for Bradford, under 25 miles away, or just down Trawden Road.
Meaning? Your pump has taken the AdBlue up. Distance sets how far it gets: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. Every restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the next job — then turn everything off. On the M65, under 3 miles from Winewall, that means the next exit, not the services further on. No test restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Roughly how far did it go? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the vehicle barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just next to your diesel cap — news to you. Anywhere you are around Lancashire, any driver can slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it beforehand cuts time. Hanging on for a reply in the car park outside Colne, or near Christ Church? Keep the car off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Winewall
Occasionally the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap came off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by the filler. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Trawden Forest Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Colne.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never touch the motor at all. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the vehicle would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not fire it up. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats draining one once it has been run — so ring then tell us what you saw.
What each AdBlue drain around Winewall has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Filling station, drive, The Cotton Tree's car park or a street by Trawden Forest Community Centre — our van reaches the vehicle, and three questions come next: what liquid, what quantity, and if it ran. Those replies decide the work, and you hear our price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining the tank comes next, then a careful flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't go on their own, no matter how long you wait. Next is your filter — flushed, or replaced where needed — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your car. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit from the moment our engineers get there.
Firing it up comes last. Our check that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before we go. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's spotted soon, permanent damage is very rare. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money upfront. Many policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Winewall itself
Winewall is a village in Lancashire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of 168 metres. Winewall lies near the towns of Trawden and Cotton Tree, and is approximately 16 miles from Bradford. Winewall has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly composed of terraced homes. Winewall is located in the North West region of England, about 183 miles from London.
Winewall and Lancashire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout BB postcodes, the teams serving Winewall — a village — work surrounding towns too, Trawden and Carry Bridge included. Your whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode beginning BB8 8.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Ball Grove Park or in a car park in the middle of Winewall, it doesn't need to move. The van empties it in place. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Trawden Community Library or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the car off and call. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Winewall and anywhere in Lancashire on 0333 366 0103.