AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bacons End: What Now?
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has run afterwards. Over in Tile Cross or here in Bacons End, an unstarted engine should remain unrun. Leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Bacons End. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It's a bigger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Wherever in West Midlands it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Bacons End forecourt
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you spot the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. It could be the BP, or perhaps the Esso, or a different forecourt around Bacons End.
In short: there is no better spot to be to spot it. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: resist the urge to start it only to free up the pump. Three jobs: a push into a bay with the staff assisting, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. Draining it there at the pump is fine when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Bacons End with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle from the garage, tipped in at the driveway — and it's just by the recycling that the cap got your eye. Drives close to Stapleton Drive see it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: zero driving since makes this nearly equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops to the base in that tank and stays. One night parked changes none of that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that's around Bacons End or out in Fordbridge. The equipment works quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Bacons End: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and soon the motor was turning unevenly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Maybe it was on Hadfield Way, maybe on the way out towards Birmingham, under 10 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger run, after your filter and lines have had it. More driving, more starts: deeper it travels.
Pull in safely — that's the first step — then switch it off. Leave by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M6, under a mile from Bacons End. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Tell us know the distance driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. Unknown to you, the two inlets sit side by side here — not like your own car, which has none or stores it elsewhere. Anyone, anywhere across West Midlands, could make it.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the cases above, and those depend on if it's run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded by North Solihull Sports Centre or at Marston Green till someone answers, the car remains turned off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Bacons End
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think so. What cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Marston Green, or in a rush outside St Anne's Catholic Primary School on the school run.
In short: a spill round your filler leaves your motor no harm. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not start the vehicle. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a happier result than an already-run one emptied.
What every AdBlue drain around Bacons End has in common
Every case has the same opening to the work. Three things come once our engineers reach the car — at a filling station, a drive, a street beside Kingshurst Evangelical Church or the car park outside The Centurion: the fluid, the quantity, and if it has been started. Your price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the job.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not wash out unaided; that's why the flush, after this drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of your vehicle. Where your motor hasn't run, allow about half an hour on site, in most cases.
Lastly, our engineers fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we check it's running properly, and then we go. When it's noticed early, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Bacons End
Bacons End is a locality situated on the riverside in the West Midlands, with an elevation of 89 metres and a mix of terraced housing. Bacons End lies approximately 6.7 miles from Birmingham and 96.4 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location. Bacons End is surrounded by nearby places such as Fordbridge, Chelmsley Wood, and Kingshurst, and has a population of around 3125 residents.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Bacons End included
Bacons End is a small village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Chelmsley Wood and Kingshurst among them, across the B postcode area. Telling us your B37 5 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Stopped en route to Chelmsley Wood LNR, or bang in the centre of Bacons End, the vehicle stays put — there's no need to move it at all. Wherever it stands, that is where it gets drained. Phone and ask rather than guess when you're by St Anne's, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to explain.
In one line: your situation
Engine not started: phone, and leave it switched off. Whichever line fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout West Midlands and in Bacons End — once you pull over, turn off then ring, if it has run.