Bungay: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has run since. Not run so far? Then keep it that way, wherever the vehicle is — Bungay or Wainford. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and engine both off. In Bungay, such a case is typically emptied and flushed where it stands. Already started? Stop when safe, then turn everything off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere in Suffolk it happened, one of the situations below matches yours.
At the pump in Bungay: AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Be it The Co-operative, Shell or anywhere else around Bungay, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits just in your tank.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Have the attendants to help pushing it to a space, save the receipt, then phone us from there. If it cannot be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
Bungay, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the warning light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Driveways near A144 see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Put the keys indoors overnight — or someone may take it away at breakfast — then call us. Your driveway is where it is emptied, whether around Bungay or Ditchingham Dam. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Bungay?
Topped up, drove away, and soon the motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Possibly it was on Earsham Street, possibly on the way out towards Norwich, under 15 miles away.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Distance decides how deep it goes: filter and pipework to begin with, then the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more restarts: deeper it travels.
Next: find a sensible spot, pull in, then switch the motor off. Bungay sits over 50 miles from the M11; on it, pull off at the next junction rather than pressing on for the services. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Roughly what distance had it go? Say so as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've only had the vehicle for days. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet was right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Suffolk.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which turn on whether it's run. Work on your vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under hire or fleet terms.
Sorting it before we turn up is faster, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Beccles, or by Number 8, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Bungay
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. The gates of St Edmund's Catholic Primary School in a rush, perhaps, or someone's drive out in Earsham.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no damage to the engine. Inside your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Do this: behave as if it did, and don't start the motor. Phone and give the details: we would rather find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once your motor has run.
What each AdBlue drain in Bungay has in common
The work opens identically, whichever your situation. Wherever the vehicle is — The Three Tuns's car park, a street beside Butter Cross, a drive, a filling station — the van arrives and we ask about the liquid, the quantity, and whether your motor has turned over. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told the price, and those replies decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Finally come the filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of the vehicle. Not started? In that case about half an hour on site is most jobs.
Finally, our engineers start the engine. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running smoothly, and then we go. When it's spotted quickly, the vehicle very seldom has long-term damage, and the whole job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your documents while you wait is worthwhile.
About Bungay
Bungay is a small town situated on the River Waveney in Suffolk, with a population of around 6418 people. Bungay sits at an elevation of 16 metres, close to the Norfolk border and near the villages of Ditchingham and Temple Bar. Bungay is characterized by its riverside setting and predominantly detached housing stock. Bungay is located 13.4 miles from Norwich and 93.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Bungay and across Suffolk
Temple Bar and Ditchingham have the same vans as Bungay, a riverside town, plus further towns over NR postcodes. Telling us your NR35 1 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Centre of Bungay or a layby towards Dinky's Garden: wherever it is, your vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for the drain. The van empties it in place. Assuming won't help beside The Fisher Theatre, close to a county line or anywhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
Your scenario, summed up
Where it hasn't started, phone then leave it off. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Bungay and anywhere around Suffolk on 0333 366 0103.