AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bankfoot: What Now?
All of it turns on a single fact: whether your engine has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started so far? Then leave the vehicle that way, whether your vehicle sits — Bankfoot or Kingswood. Leave the motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Bankfoot. Where your engine has run, stop somewhere safe first, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Anywhere across Perth and Kinross it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Bankfoot forecourt
Just now, nozzle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Whether Gulf, another forecourt nearby or somewhere else around Bankfoot, the case is the same.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it can be. Just the tank holds AdBlue; no component past it has taken any in.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed clear is drained where it is at the petrol pump.
At home around Bankfoot with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Just off Nicoll Drive is no different from any other place.
Meaning? Provided the car hasn't moved since, it is close to the pump case. On the floor of your tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by makes no difference.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that is in Bankfoot or out in Over Blelock. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Bankfoot?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your motor started playing up: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. Maybe heading to Perth, under 10 miles away, or just along Prieston Road.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger trip, once the fuel filter and lines have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Do this: pull up somewhere safe, then turn the motor off. Leave at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M90, under 10 miles from Bankfoot. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Roughly how far had it go? Say so when you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the car barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just next to the diesel cap — a surprise to you. Wherever you happen to be around Perth and Kinross, every motorist can be caught.
The point: just as above, split by if it ran, but with an added stage. The owner often has to approve any work, under plenty of hire and company agreements.
Sorting it before the van turn up is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stuck near Bankfoot War Memorial or at Dunkeld & Birnam till the firm answers, your car remains switched off throughout.
Bankfoot: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of the local primary school in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive out in West Tofts.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Any AdBlue in your tank would be sucked in by firing up your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it went in, then keep your motor off. Phone and give what you saw: we would sooner find a clean tank than drain one once your engine has run.
What each AdBlue drain in Bankfoot has in common
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere your car is — Bankfoot Inn's car park, a street beside Soutarhill, a driveway, a filling station — the van gets there and asks for the fluid, the amount, plus whether the engine has turned over. Your price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after the drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then comes the filter — flushed, or replaced where necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Firing it up comes last. Our technicians make sure it runs correctly on clean diesel before leaving. When it is spotted soon, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Bankfoot
Bankfoot is a village situated on the banks of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, with a mix of rural and residential areas. Bankfoot has a relatively low elevation of 71 metres and is located near several small settlements, including Over Blelock and Waterloo. Bankfoot is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is close to the city of Perth, which is about 7.8 miles away. Bankfoot is a small but distinct community within the wider Perth and Kinross area.
AdBlue drains in Bankfoot, and across Perth and Kinross too
Waterloo and Airntully get the same teams as Bankfoot, a village, along with further places throughout PH postcodes. The location is quickest from a postcode beginning PH1 4.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Scot's Wood or in a car park in the middle of Bankfoot, it does not need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it is cleared. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Taste Perthshire or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your situation, in one line
Motor never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Bankfoot and Perth and Kinross, on 0333 366 0103.