Burton Hastings: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine run since the AdBlue got in? This single point settles nearly everything else from here. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Burton Hastings itself or out in Leicester Grange. Leave your motor and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Burton Hastings. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then turn it off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same first step.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Warwickshire it happened.
Burton Hastings forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just now, bottle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. Maybe you are at the Esso, possibly at the another forecourt nearby, perhaps somewhere else in Burton Hastings.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. Still inside the tank, with no fuel pulled through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Clearing the pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after the car is in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and save the receipt. Stuck beside the pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt safe, so we can drain the car where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Burton Hastings
The warning light had been on for days. Bought a bottle, tipped it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, too late. It occurs on driveways just off Olton Close as often as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Keep the keys in the house tonight — otherwise a person may take it away first thing — then phone us. We drain the car on your drive, whether that is in Burton Hastings or out in Bramcote. Night-time drains outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Burton Hastings?
Filled up, drove away, and soon your motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Possibly it was on Cicey Lane, perhaps on the way out towards Coventry, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so then switch off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M69, under a mile from Burton Hastings. It won't have cleared, so there is no point restarting to check. Phone us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
Seven days back, it was new to you. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet was just beside your diesel. Anyone, wherever across Warwickshire, might do the same.
The point: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, but with one added step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. Stranded by St Botolph or outside Hinckley till someone answers, the car remains switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Burton Hastings
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Wolvey CofE Primary School in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's drive out in Whitestone.
Put simply: a spill near the filler leaves your motor unharmed. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not start the car. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean beats draining one after it has been run — so ring and tell us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain in Burton Hastings shares these steps
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Wherever the car stands — the pub in the village's car park, a road beside St John Baptist, a driveway, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks for the liquid, the quantity, and whether your motor has turned over. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear our price, and those answers shape the work too.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers arrive.
We fire it up at the end. Before we leave, it is checked to confirm it runs correctly on fresh diesel. Long-term damage is very uncommon if it's noticed quickly, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Many insurance policies cover misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Burton Hastings, briefly
Burton Hastings is a small village in Warwickshire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 104 metres. Burton Hastings lies approximately 8 miles north of Coventry and 87 miles northwest of London, within a network of rural settlements that include Bramcote, Shelford, and Bramcote Mains. Burton Hastings has a population of around 512 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Warwickshire, Burton Hastings included
Shelford and Bramcote Mains get the identical teams as Burton Hastings, a village, along with other places throughout CV postcodes. Your whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode beginning CV11 6.
Centre of Burton Hastings or a layby towards Nuneaton Golf Club: either way it sits, the car doesn't need to shift at all for the drain. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. Assuming won't help beside Wolvey Village Hall, close to a border or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
In one line: your situation
Motor never started: ring, leaving it switched off. Started already? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, in Burton Hastings and Warwickshire, on 0333 366 0103.