AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Brickhill: What Now?
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started since. Not run yet? Then keep it that way, wherever the car sits — Brickhill or Salph End. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush plus a drain, done right where the vehicle stands in Brickhill. When your motor has run, stop safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening step.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere around Bedfordshire you happen to be.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Brickhill forecourt
Just 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 Avon Drive Service Centre, or perhaps the JET, or a different station around Brickhill.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the petrol pump. Get the attendants to help pushing it to a space, hold on to the receipt, then phone us right there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, and so we can drain the vehicle in place.
Brickhill, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had used on the driveway. Drives near Tamar Road see it as much as anywhere.
In short: if the car has not moved since, it's nearly equal to finding out at the forecourt. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base inside your tank and stays. One night standing alters nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that's in Brickhill or out in Putnoe. The equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Brickhill?
Topped up, drove away, and soon the motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Possibly it was on Trent Road, possibly on the way out towards Milton Keynes, under 25 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. The high-pressure pump and every injector see it too on a longer trip, once the filter and pipework have had it. Each restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Next: find a safe place, pull in, and turn the engine off. On the M1, under 15 miles from Brickhill, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, and so there's no sense starting it again to check. Tell us hear the distance covered when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
It's a car you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or stores it elsewhere. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Bedfordshire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Any work on the car often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Settling it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stuck near Catholic Church of St. Philip and St. James, Brickhill or at Bedford until the firm replies, the car stays switched off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Brickhill?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you 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. It might have been at a friend's drive in Goldington, or rushing outside Brickhill Primary School on the school run.
Put simply: a spill round your filler leaves the engine unharmed. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Take it that it got in, and don't turn the engine. Ring and give the details: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after the engine has been run.
The common ground in each Brickhill AdBlue drain
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Forecourt, drive, The Pheasant's car park or a street beside Brickhill Community Centre — our van reaches your car, and three answers follow: which liquid, which amount, and if it ran. The price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and those replies set the work.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, since crystals form and certain metals are attacked, and neither washes away unaided. Clean diesel is put in once the filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally tested. If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Lastly, our technicians start the car. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it's running properly, and then we head off. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and if it's caught quickly, long-term damage is very uncommon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About Brickhill
Brickhill is a suburban area in Bedfordshire, situated inland at an elevation of 39 metres, with a mix of housing types but predominantly detached homes. Brickhill lies near several other residential areas, including Putnoe, Woodside, and Cleat Hill, and is approximately 15 miles from Milton Keynes. Brickhill is also within commuting distance of London, being around 47 miles from the capital. Brickhill has a population of around 5466 residents.
AdBlue drains around Brickhill and across Bedfordshire
Brickhill is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Woodside and Cleat Hill among them, across the MK postcode area. A postcode starting MK41 8 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Waveney Green or in a car park in the middle of Brickhill, it does not need to shift. The drain happens on the spot. Tricky to pin down? By St Mark's Church and Community Centre or a border? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle that way then ring. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Brickhill or anywhere across Bedfordshire.