AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Brown Moor: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your motor has run since it went in. Not run so far? Then keep it that way, whether your car is — Brown Moor or Colton. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where the vehicle sits in Brown Moor. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then turn everything off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere around West Yorkshire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Brown Moor forecourt
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Somewhere around Brown Moor, then — BP, Sainsbury's, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it can be. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue stays just inside your tank.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up just to move away from the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed clear gets drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Brown Moor drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle from the garage, tipped in at the driveway — and it was just at the bin that the cap got a second look. Houses just off Thorpe Park Gardens get hit as often as anywhere else.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. On the floor of that tank is where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that is in Brown Moor or out in Colton Common. Night-time clears outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Brown Moor?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the top-up. Barrowby Gardens, say, or the way towards Leeds — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a longer run, after your filter and lines have it. Every restart, like every mile, pushes it deeper.
What to do: pull over where it's safe then switch off. Services farther on are too far: on the M1, under a mile out of Brown Moor, use the next junction. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right by your diesel cap — news to you. Wherever you happen to be around West Yorkshire, any driver can be caught.
In short: an extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on if it's run. The owner often has to approve the work, under many hire and company contracts.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Stuck by Odeon or at Cross Gates until the firm replies, the vehicle remains turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Brown Moor?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Austhorpe Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Swillington Common.
In short: a spill near the filler leaves the engine unharmed. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Take it that it was put in, and don't turn the key. Checking a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats emptying one once it's been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
What each AdBlue drain in Brown Moor has in common
The job opens identically, whatever your case. Filling station, driveway, Barnbow Social Club's car park or a street by The Springs — the van comes to the vehicle, and three answers follow: which liquid, what amount, and whether it has run. Answers shape the work; the quote follows on the call whilst nobody has left yet.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it's essential, since crystals form and certain metals are attacked, and none of that washes out unaided. Clean diesel is put in after the fuel filter is cleaned or changed, and the car is finally tested. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before our technicians leave. If it's caught early, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Brown Moor itself
Brown Moor is a suburban area located inland in West Yorkshire, sitting at an elevation of 87 metres and approximately 5 miles from Leeds. Brown Moor is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is situated near other local places such as Colton Common and Whitkirk Lane End. Brown Moor has a population of around 1114 residents and is part of the wider Leeds urban area. Brown Moor is also relatively close to the city centre, making it a convenient residential location.
AdBlue drains around Brown Moor, and across West Yorkshire too
Brown Moor is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Whitkirk Lane End and Austhorpe among them, across the LS postcode area. Quickest of all: a LS15 8 postcode for where you stand.
Central Brown Moor or a lay-by near the green space at the edge of the village: wherever it is, the car doesn't need to shift at all for the drain. The drain is done right there. Phone and ask instead of guessing if you are close to Retial Square, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Leave it that way and ring. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Brown Moor and West Yorkshire, on 0333 366 0103.