AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Anstruther Easter, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on one fact: if the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Wherever the vehicle is — Kilrenny, Anstruther Easter — never run an engine that has not been started yet. Leave your engine and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Anstruther Easter. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then switch everything off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical opening move.
Compare what happened to a situation from the list below, anywhere around Fife you happen to be.
At the pump around Anstruther Easter: AdBlue in a diesel
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. Whether Gulf, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else around Anstruther Easter, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the best location to find out. Still in your tank, with no fuel drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so do not get back in. Have the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a bay, save the receipt, then ring us right there. Draining it there at the pump is fine if it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Anstruther Easter, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle from the garage, emptied in on the drive — and it was only at the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It occurs on drives just off Cunzie Street as regularly as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the pump case. Being unable to mix, AdBlue settles to the base inside that tank and stays. A night parked changes none of that.
Next: stop an early-morning move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. We drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that's around Anstruther Easter or out in Anstruther Wester. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Anstruther Easter: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Somewhere along Castle Street or else heading towards Dundee — under 25 miles away.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue through already. It's been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. Every restart, like every mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: find a safe spot, stop, and turn the motor off. Anstruther Easter lies under 50 miles from the M90; on it, pull off at the next junction instead of pressing on for the services. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
A week ago, the car was new to you. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right by your diesel inlet — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Fife.
In short: an extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on if it has run. Work on your vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside North Berwick, or near Mercat Cross? Keep the engine off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Anstruther Easter
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think so. A faint ammonia whiff hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Pittenweem, or rushing by the local primary school on the school run.
The upshot: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed on the outside. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Assume it went in, and never turn your engine. Ring and give what you saw: we'd sooner find a clean tank than drain one after your motor has run.
The common ground in each Anstruther Easter AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things come when we reach the car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside Anstruther Town Hall or the car park at Masonic Arms: the liquid, the amount, and if it has been started. Answers shape the work; the price comes on the call while nobody has set off yet.
Then your tank is emptied and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Clean diesel is put in after the filter is flushed or changed, and your car is finally checked. Not started? Then about half an hour on site is most jobs.
The final step is starting the engine. Our test that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. If it's noticed early, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the whole job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Anstruther Easter
Anstruther Easter is a coastal suburban area in Fife, situated near the town of Anstruther and the village of Cellardyke. Anstruther Easter has a population of around 2481 people and is characterized by semi-detached housing. Anstruther Easter sits at a low elevation of approximately 5 metres above sea level, overlooking the coastal scenery of the Firth of Forth. Anstruther Easter is located near the city of Dundee, which is about 19 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Anstruther Easter, and across Fife too
Anstruther Easter is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Anstruther and Cellardyke among them, across the KY postcode area. Quickest of all: a KY10 3 postcode to show your location.
Stopped heading to Chalmers Memorial Garden, or right in the heart of Anstruther Easter, the vehicle stays put — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Our van drains it where it stands. Tricky to explain? By Anstruther Parish Church or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
In one line: your situation
Motor not started: ring, and leave it alone. Run already? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, in Anstruther Easter and Fife, on 0333 366 0103.