AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Badsworth, and What to Do Next
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started afterwards. Wherever your vehicle stands — Upton, Badsworth — don't run a motor that has not run yet. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor still off. Across Badsworth, such a case is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then turn it off. It's a bigger job, yet step one does not change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across West Yorkshire it happened.
On a Badsworth forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you are stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Somewhere in Badsworth, then — BP, Esso, or anywhere else close by.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed away is cleared right at the pump.
At home around Badsworth with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Houses just off Back Lane get hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes it almost equal to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and remains put, no matter how long it waits.
Put the keys in the house overnight — or someone might take it off at breakfast — and call us. In Thorpe Gate Estate or here around Badsworth, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road in Badsworth with AdBlue in a diesel
Filled up, pulled away, and soon your engine was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. It might have been driving for Wakefield, under 10 miles away, or just along Main Street.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue in. Distance decides how deep it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a safe place, stop, then turn the motor off. Services further on can wait: on the A1(M), under 5 miles out of Badsworth, take the first junction. No test restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Call us and say how far you drove.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a motor you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets are next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anyone, anywhere in West Yorkshire, might make the same.
Meaning? Whatever case above counts here — run or not — and one extra stage. Many hire and company agreements need the owner's approval for work.
Do this: hire firm or fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it early saves time. Stuck by St Mary the Virgin or outside Moorthorpe till the firm replies, the vehicle remains turned off throughout.
Badsworth: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's drive in Charlestown Estate, or rushing by Badsworth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School at the school run.
Put simply: spillage round your filler leaves your motor unharmed. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank will be sucked in by firing up your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not start the car. Describe what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked is a happier outcome than a run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain around Badsworth has in common
Whatever the situation, a single opening applies. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside The Jacobean or a side street close to Upton Library, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and if your motor has been run. Those answers decide the work, and you get the price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Emptying that tank comes first, then a careful flush — more important with urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, however long it sits. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where the engine has not been started, expect roughly half an hour on site, for most cases.
Last, our technicians fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while we confirm it is running correctly, and then we head off. The whole job is done where the car is, and if it's noticed quickly, long-term damage is very rare. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Plenty of policies include misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Badsworth and where it is
Badsworth is a small village in West Yorkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 64 metres, approximately 8.8 miles from Wakefield. Badsworth has a population of around 697 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Badsworth is located near to other local places such as Thorpe Gate Estate and Thorpe Audlin, and is about 154.7 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across West Yorkshire, Badsworth included
Badsworth is a rural village, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Thorpe Audlin and Hill Estate among them, across the WF postcode area. Quickest of all: a WF9 1 postcode to show your location.
Stopped heading to Rockingham Gorse, or right in the heart of Badsworth, your car remains where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Roll of Honour or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The one-line version
Engine not started: ring, and leave it alone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Badsworth or wherever across West Yorkshire.