What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Woolstanwood
One thing matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your motor has been started since. Over in Barrows Green or right around Woolstanwood, an unstarted engine must remain unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. In Woolstanwood, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It's a larger job, though step one doesn't change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Cheshire it happened.
Woolstanwood forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You're at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It might be the Esso, or the Morrisons, or another station in Woolstanwood.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Still in your tank, and nothing pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the pump. Have the attendants to help pushing it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then phone us right there. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed away is emptied right at the petrol pump.
Woolstanwood, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had gone by with the warning light on. A bottle from the garage, tipped in on the driveway — and it's just by the recycling that the cap got your eye. Right off Acton Road is no less likely from anywhere.
The point: zero driving since makes it nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. At the bottom of your tank is where AdBlue stays, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Your move: keys in the house, and so no one takes your vehicle off at breakfast. After that, phone. Out in Marshfield Bank or here around Woolstanwood, the drain happens on your driveway. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Woolstanwood?
A short way after filling up, the engine began playing up: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. It might have been heading to Stoke-on-Trent, under 15 miles away, or just down Coppenhall Lane.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger trip, after the filter and pipework have had it. Every restart, like every mile, carries it on.
Stop safely — that's the next step — then turn everything off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M6, under 10 miles from Woolstanwood. No trial restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Phone, and say how far the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
Seven days ago, it was new to you. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap sits just beside the diesel. Anywhere you are in Cheshire, any driver can be caught.
Put simply: an extra step on top of the cases above, which turn on if it's run. The owner often has to approve any work, under many rental and company agreements.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. Keep it off as the reply comes, even if you are parked at Crewe or close to Legends Sports Centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Woolstanwood?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. A hurried stop by the gates of Wistaston Academy, or a call to a friend in Worleston: both fit.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never reach the motor at all. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the vehicle will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start the motor. Tell us what you saw on your phone. A clear tank checked counts as a better outcome than an already-run one emptied.
Woolstanwood: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the situation, one start applies. Wherever the car is — The Rising Sun's car park, a street beside War Memorial, a driveway, a filling station — our van gets there and asks for the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Next is your filter — cleaned, or replaced where necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of your car. If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is starting the car. With clean diesel in, it runs while we confirm it is running correctly, and then we go. When it's noticed soon, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Woolstanwood, for a moment
Woolstanwood is a suburban area in Cheshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of around 50 metres. Woolstanwood lies near several local places, including Marshfield Bank, Wistaston Green, and The Valley, and is approximately 13.7 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Woolstanwood has a population of around 2750 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Woolstanwood is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 148.2 miles.
AdBlue drains across Cheshire, Woolstanwood included
Wistaston Green and The Valley get the same teams as Woolstanwood, a residential suburb, plus other places throughout CW postcodes. Quickest of all: a CW2 8 postcode for where you stand.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to King George V Playing Fields or in a car park in the middle of Woolstanwood, it doesn't need to shift. Our van drains it where it stands. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you are by Clock Tower, near a border, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Keep the car off and phone. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Woolstanwood or anywhere in Cheshire.