Broomfield: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has been started since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is around Broomfield itself or out in Springfield. Usually that means draining and thoroughly rinsing it on the spot around Broomfield — so leave your key and engine off and call 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It's a larger job, though step one does not change.
Below: the situations our engineers see, anywhere around Essex. Pick the one that fits.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Broomfield forecourt
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It could be the Applegreen UK, or the Shell, or another station around Broomfield.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. Have the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a space, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Broomfield
The warning light had been on for days. Bought a container, tipped it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, too late. Homes just off Rutherfords are caught out as much as everywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not been driven since, it is second to the pump case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: stop any early-morning drive by putting the keys in the house, then ring us. In Blasford Hill or here around Broomfield, the draining is done on your driveway. Night-time clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Broomfield: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and soon your engine was turning unevenly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Julian Close, perhaps, or the route towards Chelmsford — a trip of under 3 miles.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Past the fuel filter, through the pipework, and — the further the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that's the next job — then switch it off. Leave at the next junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M11, under 15 miles from Broomfield. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have only driven this car a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right by your diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Anywhere you are around Essex, any driver can slip up.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, but with an added step. Work on your vehicle often needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet terms.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers arrive than after. Hanging on for a reply at the car park outside Chelmsford, or beside Gwynneth Holt and Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones? Keep your engine off meanwhile.
Broomfield: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Minnow End, or rushing by Broomfield Primary School on the school run.
In short: spillage near the filler does your motor unharmed. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the car will draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: act as though it did, and don't start your engine. 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.
Each AdBlue drain in Broomfield shares these steps
No matter the situation, a single opening applies. Wherever the vehicle is — Kings Arms's car park, a road by St Mary with St Leonard, Broomfield, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and we ask for the fluid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been run. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the job.
Then your tank is cleared and the 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, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Clean diesel is put in once the filter is cleaned or changed, and your car is finally checked. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit from the moment our technicians arrive.
We fire it up at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running correctly, and then we go. The whole job is done where the car is, and if it's noticed soon, long-term damage is very rare. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money upfront. It is worth knowing: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Broomfield itself
Broomfield is a village situated on the riverside in Essex, with an elevation of 42 metres above sea level. Broomfield lies close to the city of Chelmsford, approximately 2 miles away, and is near other local places such as Blasford Hill and Little Waltham. Broomfield has a population of around 2153 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Broomfield is also located within commuting distance of London, being around 31 miles from the capital.
AdBlue drains around Broomfield, and across Essex too
Broomfield is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Broads Green and Little Waltham among them, across the CM postcode area. Giving us a CM1 7 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Central Broomfield or a layby towards Church Green: wherever it is, your vehicle doesn't need to shift at all for the drain. The drain happens on the spot. Guessing won't help beside Broomfield Library, close to a county line or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
Your situation, summed up
Where it hasn't run, ring then leave it off. Started by now? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, in Broomfield and Essex, on 0333 366 0103.