Wrens Nest: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything hinges on one detail: if the motor has been run after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is around Wrens Nest itself or out in Priory. Leave your engine and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Wrens Nest. Pull over the moment you safely can and turn off, if it has been run. A bigger job, then, but the identical first step.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, wherever in West Midlands. Choose yours.
On a Wrens Nest forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are 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. Somewhere in Wrens Nest, then — Esso, Shell, or anywhere else nearby.
The point: of every spot to notice, this is the best. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the queue wants clearing. Have the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a space, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
At home in Wrens Nest with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the dash, a warning had been lit for days. A bottle bought at the shop, tipped in at the driveway — and it's just at the bin that the cap caught your eye. It happens on drives just off Willow Road as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. On the floor of the tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Upper Gornal or Wrens Nest: whichever your drive sits, that is where it is emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road in Wrens Nest with AdBlue in a diesel
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. Anywhere on Summer Road or else on the road to Wolverhampton — under 5 miles away.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue in by now. Mileage sets how deep it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and each injector. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it deeper.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then turn the engine off. Services farther along are too far: on the M5, under 5 miles out of Wrens Nest, use the first junction. It won't have cleared, so there is no sense restarting to find out. Phone, saying how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've just driven the vehicle for days. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers are side by side here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you are around West Midlands, every driver could slip up.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, but with one added step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Waiting for an answer in the car park at Tipton, or beside Seven Sisters Mine? Keep the car off meanwhile.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Wrens Nest?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. What cap was taken off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Wrens Nest Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Eve Hill.
The upshot: your engine isn't harmed by some AdBlue splashed around the filler. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Starting your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would suck it in.
Next: assume it got in, then leave your engine off. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it's been run — so phone then tell us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain around Wrens Nest shares these stages
The work opens identically, whatever the situation. We come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Caves or a side street close to Ripple Beds & Reef Mounds (Marsh's Quarry), and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has run. Those replies determine the work, and you get the price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
A thorough flush comes after the drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is essential, because crystals form and some metals are attacked, and neither rinses away unaided. Fresh diesel is put in once your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is then tested. Where the engine has not run, allow about half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Lastly, we start the engine. Before our technicians leave, it is checked to make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it's noticed soon, lasting damage is very uncommon. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Worth knowing: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy while we travel pays.
About Wrens Nest itself
Wrens Nest is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Tame and overlooking the surrounding countryside from an elevation of 194 metres. Wrens Nest is located close to Wolverhampton, with the city centre just 4.5 miles away, and is near other local places such as Upper Gornal and Parkes Hall. Wrens Nest has a population of around 7879 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Wrens Nest is also some 109 miles northwest of London, making it a commuter hub for those working in the capital.
AdBlue drains around Wrens Nest, and across West Midlands too
Throughout DY postcodes, the teams covering Wrens Nest — a residential suburb — reach surrounding towns too, Parkes Hall and Dibdale included. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode beginning DY1 3.
Parked en route to Black Country Millennium Forest, or right in the centre of Wrens Nest, the car stays where it is — there is no need to move it at all. The drain happens on the spot. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Time Periscope or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your scenario, in one line
Unstarted? Keep the car off and ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever case, across Wrens Nest and West Midlands, on 0333 366 0103.