AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Boslowick: What Now?
Has your motor turned over since the AdBlue got in? That one question decides almost everything else from here. Not started yet? Then keep the car that way, whether your vehicle sits — Boslowick or Budock Water. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine still off. In Boslowick, that is typically drained and flushed on the spot. When your motor has been run, pull in safely first, then switch the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Below: the situations we meet, anywhere in Cornwall. Pick yours.
Boslowick forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, nozzle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Whether the nearest petrol station, Esso or anywhere else around Boslowick, the situation is the same.
The upshot: of all places to notice, this is the best. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the queue wants clearing. Three jobs: a shove into a bay with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a busy forecourt sensible, so we can drain the vehicle in place.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Boslowick drive?
For days the dashboard had been warning you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the drive. It occurs on drives just off Mongleath Road as regularly as anywhere.
Put simply: if your car hasn't been driven since, it's almost as good as finding out at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Keep your keys indoors overnight — or someone might take it away first thing — and phone us. We drain it on your driveway, whether that is around Boslowick or out in Swanvale. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Boslowick?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere along Leading to Diana Close Charles Avenue or on the road towards Truro — under 10 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger trip, after the fuel filter and pipework have it. It travels deeper with every extra mile covered and each restart.
Your move: stop anywhere safe, then switch your engine off. Leave by the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M5, over 50 miles from Boslowick. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Let us know the distance covered when you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week ago, the car was unknown to you. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Anyone, wherever in Cornwall, could make it.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements require the owner's approval for work.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stranded by Life Church or at Penmere till someone replies, your car remains switched off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Boslowick?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I 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. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Falmouth, or on a friend's drive in Twinbrook Park.
Put simply: a spill near the filler leaves your engine no harm. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: assume it went in, and keep the motor off. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Boslowick: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The work begins the same way, whichever your case. Forecourt, drive, Boslowick Inn's car park or a street beside Emmanuel Baptist Church — our van reaches the vehicle, and three answers come next: what fluid, which quantity, and if it ran. Answers shape the job; the quote follows by phone whilst no one has set off yet.
Then your tank is cleared and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Not started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Finally, our technicians start the car. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running properly, and then we head off. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it is noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where the car is. Paying comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover comes built into plenty of policies.
About Boslowick and where it is
Boslowick is a suburban area in Cornwall, situated near the coast and approximately 8 miles from Truro. Boslowick sits at an elevation of 32 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Boslowick is close to nearby places such as Swanvale, Golden Bank, and Mongleath, and is located within the South West region of England. Boslowick has a population of around 6077 residents.
Boslowick and Cornwall: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Boslowick has the same vans as the nearby places — Mongleath, Golden Bank — right across TR postcodes. Quickest of all: a TR11 4 postcode to show your location.
Stopped heading to Prislow Woods, or bang in the centre of Boslowick, the car remains put — there is no need to move it at all. We drain the car where it stands. Ring and check instead of guessing when you're close to Budock Parish Church, on a boundary, or anywhere tricky to explain.
The one-line version
Where it hasn't started, ring then leave it off. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Cornwall and in Boslowick — after you stop, turn off then ring, if it's run.