What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bellevue
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: if the motor has run since it was put in. Not started so far? Then leave the car like that, whether the vehicle sits — Bellevue or Spitalhill. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Bellevue, that is typically drained and flushed on the spot. Already run? Pull over when safe, then switch everything off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same opening step.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Derbyshire it happened.
On a Bellevue forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it Lumbards Service Centre, Prestons or anywhere else around Bellevue, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Just that tank has AdBlue; no component beyond it has drawn any in.
Clearing the pump is no reason to run it — so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after the vehicle is in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — then save the bottle. If it cannot be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home in Bellevue with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Just off Northcliffe Road is no less likely from anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: the keys indoors, so nobody drives your car off first thing. After that, ring. Out in Ashbourne or right here around Bellevue, the draining happens on your driveway. Night-time empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Bellevue?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. Perhaps it was on Mapleton Road, perhaps on the way out towards Derby, under 15 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. More driving, more restarts: deeper it goes.
Pull in safely — that's the first job — then turn everything off. Bellevue sits under 25 miles from the M1; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on to the services. It won't have cleared, and so there is no sense starting it again to find out. Tell us hear the mileage driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've just had this vehicle for days. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap sits right next to the diesel. Anywhere you happen to be across Derbyshire, any driver can be caught.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on whether it has run. Many hire and company contracts need the owner's approval for work.
Settling it before we arrives is faster, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded near All Saints Catholic Church or outside Uttoxeter till someone replies, the vehicle stays switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Bellevue
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. A slight ammonia smell hangs around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is a blur. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Nether Sturston, or rushing outside St Oswald's CofE Primary School on the school run.
The upshot: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the outside. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Your move: act as if it did, and never start your motor. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Bellevue: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job begins identically, whichever your situation. Filling station, drive, George and Dragon's car park or a street beside Francis Wright — our van comes to the vehicle, and three questions come next: what fluid, which quantity, and if it has run. Those replies decide this work, and you get our quote on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then that tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel goes in after the fuel filter has been cleaned or changed, and the car is finally tested. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment we get there.
We fire it up at the end. With clean diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running properly, and then we head off. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's spotted soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Bellevue
Bellevue is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated near the River Derwent and characterised by its terraced housing. Bellevue sits at an elevation of 154 metres, approximately 12.5 miles from Derby and 124.6 miles from London. Bellevue is located near other local places such as Ashbourne and Compton, and is part of the wider East Midlands region. Bellevue has a population of around 2756 residents.
AdBlue drains about Bellevue and across Derbyshire
Bellevue is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, The Leys and Compton among them, across the DE postcode area. Fastest of all: a DE6 1 postcode to show your location.
No moving is needed, be it stopped in the centre of Bellevue or on a layby en route to Highfield Road Recreation Ground, and so keep it put. Our technicians drain the car where it is. Ring and check rather than guess when you're close to Tom Fearn memorial, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to explain.
In one line: your scenario
If it has not started, ring then leave it off. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Derbyshire and in Bellevue — once you stop, turn off and ring, if it has run.