What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bexhill-on-Sea
One thing matters above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has run afterwards. Not started yet? Then keep the car that way, wherever the vehicle sits — Bexhill-on-Sea or Sidley. Usually this means draining and properly purging it right there around Bexhill-on-Sea — and so leave your key and motor off and ring 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe first, then switch it off. It is a bigger job, though step one does not change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across East Sussex it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Bexhill-on-Sea forecourt
Only now, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It could be the JET, or the Gulf, or a different station around Bexhill-on-Sea.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Only that tank holds AdBlue; no part past it has taken it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the pump needs freeing. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible if it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Bexhill-on-Sea
Several days had passed with the dash light on. 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. Driveways close to Buckhurst Road get it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. In Old Town or here around Bexhill-on-Sea, the draining is done on your driveway. Late-night drains beside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Bexhill-on-Sea?
Filled up, drove away, and before long your motor was turning unevenly, smoking, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Anywhere on Amherst Road or heading towards Brighton and Hove — under 50 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue through by now. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have it. It travels further with every extra mile driven and each restart.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next step — then turn everything off. Services further on can wait: on the M20, under 50 miles out of Bexhill-on-Sea, use the next junction. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Tell us hear the mileage driven when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit side by side here — unlike your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Anywhere you are around East Sussex, every motorist can be caught.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the cases above, which turn on whether it's run. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stranded in the car park outside Bexhill, or by Bexhill Town Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Bexhill-on-Sea: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A slight ammonia-like smell hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. A rushed top-up by the gates of St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School, or a call to a friend in Pebsham: both fit.
Put simply: a spill round the filler leaves the motor unharmed. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Firing up the car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would pull it in.
Do this: act as if it got in, and never start the engine. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Bexhill-on-Sea: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens the same way, whichever your case. Wherever your vehicle stands — The Town House's car park, a road by The Lane Memorial Fountain, a drive, a filling station — the van gets there and asks for the liquid, the quantity, plus if your motor has been run. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that's why the flush, after the drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Finally are the fuel filter, flushed or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of your vehicle. Where your motor hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Last, our engineers fire it up. Our engineers make sure it runs smoothly on fresh diesel before leaving. Our technicians do the whole job where your car is, and permanent damage is very unusual if it has been caught early. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes included in many policies.
About Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town in East Sussex, situated on the coast of southern England, with a population of around 22414 people. Bexhill-on-Sea has a relatively low elevation of 11 metres above sea level and is located approximately 52.8 miles south-east of London. Bexhill-on-Sea is characterized by its predominant housing type, which is flats, and is close to nearby places such as Old Town and Glenleigh Park. Bexhill-on-Sea is also near the city of Brighton and Hove, which is 26.9 miles to the west.
AdBlue drains round Bexhill-on-Sea and across East Sussex
Being a coastal town, Bexhill-on-Sea has the same vans as the nearby places — Glenleigh Park, Bexhill — all the way through TN postcodes. Your whereabouts is quickest from a postcode beginning TN40 9.
Stopped en route to Lane's Garden, or bang in the centre of Bexhill-on-Sea, the car remains put — there's no need to shift it anywhere. The van empties it where it stands. Phone and ask rather than guess if you are close to Sainsbury's Concrete Mural, near a boundary, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across East Sussex and within Bexhill-on-Sea — after you pull over, switch off and ring, if it has run.