AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Byards Leap: What Now?
One thing matters above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your motor has run since. Anywhere your vehicle stands — North Rauceby, Byards Leap — don't run an engine that hasn't run yet. Leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Byards Leap. Where the motor has been run, stop safely straight away, then switch the vehicle off. It's a larger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Match your case to one of the list below, anywhere across Lincolnshire you happen to be.
On a Byards Leap forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the cap you took off was not the right one. Be it Murco, Gulf or somewhere else in Byards Leap, the situation is identical.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Still inside that tank, with nothing drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so do not get back in. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed away gets cleared right at the pump.
Byards Leap, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Homes just off High Dike get hit as much as anywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. 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 in the house overnight — otherwise a person might take it off at breakfast — and call us. Out in Brauncewell or here around Byards Leap, the draining is done at your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Byards Leap?
A short way beyond topping up, your motor started playing up: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Maybe heading to Lincoln, under 15 miles away, or just down Newark Road.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue through already. It has been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. It goes deeper with every mile covered and every restart.
Your move: stop anywhere safe, then switch your engine off. On the M1, under 50 miles from Byards Leap, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Phone, and say what distance the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week ago, the car was new to you. Unbeknown to you, the two inlets sit next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Lincolnshire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or company agreements.
Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is faster. Hanging on for an answer in the car park outside Ancaster, or beside Lord Trenchard? Keep the car off meanwhile.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Byards Leap
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and ammonia lingers by your filler. A hurried top-up by the gates of Cranwell Primary School (Foundation), or a call to a friend in Leadenham Park: either fits.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't reach the motor at all. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Your move: act as though it got in, and don't start the engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked counts as a happier result than a run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain around Byards Leap has in common
No matter the case, one start applies. Three things are asked when we reach the car — at a forecourt, a drive, a street by St Michael and All Angels' Church or the car park outside the pub in the village: the liquid, the quantity, and whether it has been started. Answers set the work; the quote follows by phone while no one has left yet.
Emptying the tank comes first, then a full flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long it sits. Finally come your filter, cleaned or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of your vehicle. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
We start the engine at the end. Before our technicians leave, it is tested to be sure it runs properly on new diesel. We do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been spotted soon. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Check your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Byards Leap, for a moment
Byards Leap is a small hamlet in Lincolnshire, situated inland at an elevation of 72 metres, approximately 14 miles south of Lincoln. Byards Leap is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is located near other local places such as Brauncewell, Cranwell, and Fulbeck. Byards Leap has a population of around 595 residents, making it a quiet and relatively small community.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Byards Leap included
Byards Leap is a rural hamlet, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Cranwell and Fulbeck among them, across the NG postcode area. Quickest of all: a NG34 8 postcode for your location.
No towing is needed, be it parked in the centre of Byards Leap or in a layby en route to Reeve's Plantation, so leave it where it is. Draining happens right there. Ring and ask rather than guess when you're by Hawker Siddeley Domine T.1 XS727, on a border, or anywhere tricky to explain.
The one-line version
Motor not started: ring, leaving it alone. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Byards Leap and anywhere across Lincolnshire on 0333 366 0103.