Boultham: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one fact: if your motor has been run after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not run yet? Then keep the vehicle like that, wherever your car sits — Boultham or New Boultham. Normally that means emptying and properly purging it right there around Boultham — so leave the key and engine off and phone 0333 366 0103. Stop the moment you safely can and turn off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Lincolnshire it happened.
At the petrol pump in Boultham: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you are standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Whether Esso, Morrisons or somewhere else around Boultham, the case is the same.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. Only the tank has AdBlue; no part beyond it has taken any in.
Clearing the pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Get the staff to help rolling it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us right there. Draining it right at the pump is possible if it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Boultham drive?
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle from the garage, emptied in at the drive — and it was only by the recycling that the cap caught a second look. It takes place on driveways just off Hunt Lea Avenue as regularly as anywhere.
Put simply: if the car has not been driven since, it is almost as good as spotting it at the forecourt. As it is unable to blend, AdBlue drops to the base inside the tank and stays. One night standing changes none of that.
Your move: keys in the house, and so nobody takes the vehicle off first thing. Then, ring. Boultham Moor or Boultham: wherever your driveway sits, that's where it is emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Boultham?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your motor started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Boultham Park Road, say, or the way to Lincoln — a run of under 3 miles.
What it means: the system has pulled the AdBlue in. It's been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. It travels deeper with every mile driven and each restart.
Do this: stop somewhere safe, then turn the engine off. Services further along can wait: from the M180, under 25 miles out of Boultham, use the next junction. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. About what distance had it go? Tell us as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had this vehicle barely a week. Unknown to you, the two fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it elsewhere. Wherever you happen to be around Lincolnshire, every motorist could be caught.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on if it has run. Many rental and fleet agreements need the owner's sign-off before work.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our engineers turn up than after. If you are stuck in the car park outside Lincoln Central, or by Boultham Library, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Boultham?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. Lighter, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Sir Francis Hill Community Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Hartsholme.
The point: your engine is not harmed by a little AdBlue spilled around the outside. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Firing up your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would pull it in.
Assume it was put in, and don't turn your engine. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Boultham AdBlue drain
The job opens the same way, whichever your case. Forecourt, driveway, Nosey Parker's car park or a street beside War memorial — the van reaches the car, and three questions come next: what fluid, which quantity, and if it ran. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told the quote, and those answers decide the job too.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why a full flush, after the drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? In that case about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
The final step is starting it. Our check that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before we leave. Permanent damage is very unusual when it's noticed quickly, and the whole job is done where your car is. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. It is worth remembering: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as we travel is worthwhile.
About Boultham
Boultham is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Lincoln, situated near the River Witham in Lincolnshire. Boultham sits at a low elevation of around 7 metres, close to the city centre and nearby places such as Boultham Moor and Swanpool. Boultham is characterized by its semi-detached housing and residential community, with easy access to the amenities of Lincoln. Boultham is also relatively close to major cities, with London approximately 119 miles to the south.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Boultham included
Throughout LN postcodes, the vans covering Boultham — a residential suburb — work nearby places as well, St Catherines and Swanpool among them. A postcode starting LN6 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Boultham Park or in a car park in the middle of Boultham, it doesn't need to move. Our van drains it where it stands. Tricky to explain? Close to St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Church or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so ring.
The one-line version
Where it has not run, phone then keep it off. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Boultham and anywhere across Lincolnshire on 0333 366 0103.