Woods Moor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your motor has run since it went in. Wherever your car is — Bramhall Moor, Woods Moor — never run a motor that hasn't been started yet. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out right where the car sits in Woods Moor. Pull over the minute it is safe and switch off, if it has already run. Stage one remains the same, even though the work is bigger.
Match what happened to one of the list below, anywhere across Greater Manchester you happen to be.
At the pump around Woods Moor: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the right one. It could be the Shell, or the Esso, or another forecourt around Woods Moor.
Put simply: there is no better place to be to spot it. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits only inside the tank.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to free up the pump. Ring us from the forecourt after your car sits in a bay — the staff will help push it — and keep the receipt. Can't move the car by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, and so it can be drained in place.
Woods Moor, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle bought at the garage, tipped in on the drive — and it was only at the recycling that the cap got your eye. It occurs on driveways just off Crossway as commonly as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. At the bottom of that tank is where AdBlue waits, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. In Davenport or right here in Woods Moor, the draining happens on your driveway. The equipment runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Woods Moor?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Possibly it was on Lowland Road, maybe on the way out towards Manchester, under 10 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. Through the fuel filter, along the lines, and — the further the distance — on into the injection pump and every injector. It goes deeper with every mile covered and each restart.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, and turn your engine off. Woods Moor lies under 3 miles from the M60; on it, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on to the services. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Call, saying what distance your vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have had the vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Greater Manchester.
The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, only with an added step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Settling it before the van turn up is quicker, so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Keep it switched off as the reply arrives, whether you're waiting outside Woodsmoor or close to Davenport Lawn Tennis Club.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Woods Moor?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think it did. A slight ammonia smell lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is a blur. The gates of Great Moor Junior School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive over in Stockport Great Moor.
Meaning? Spills around the inlet don't touch your engine at all. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Take it that it got in, and never start the engine. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean is better than draining one once it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
Each AdBlue drain in Woods Moor shares these steps
Every situation gets the same start to the job. Wherever the vehicle is — Dog & Partridge's car park, a road by Brethren’s Meeting Room, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks about the fluid, the amount, and if your engine has turned over. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told the quote, and those replies decide the work too.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a careful flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't clear by themselves, no matter how long it sits. Clean diesel is put in once the filter is cleaned or changed, and the car is finally tested. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our technicians confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel before leaving. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's spotted soon, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Woods Moor and where it is
Woods Moor is a suburban area in Greater Manchester, situated approximately 7.7 miles southeast of Manchester city centre. Woods Moor sits at an elevation of around 80 metres, in a gently undulating landscape typical of the region. Woods Moor is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with nearby amenities in Davenport, Stepping Hill, and Mile End.
AdBlue drains across Greater Manchester, Woods Moor included
Woods Moor is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Stepping Hill and Mile End among them, across the SK postcode area. Quickest of all: a SK2 7 postcode to show where you stand.
Stopped heading to Great Moor Park, or bang in the heart of Woods Moor, your vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to move it anywhere. The van empties it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near Stockport Georgians Athletic Club or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Run already: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Woods Moor or anywhere across Greater Manchester.