AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Canworthy Water: What Now?
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started since. Not started so far? Then leave it that way, whether the vehicle is — Canworthy Water or Downinney. Normally this is draining and thoroughly purging it right there around Canworthy Water — and so keep your key and engine off then call 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn it off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the situations our engineers see, wherever across Cornwall. Choose the one that fits.
On a Canworthy Water forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Perhaps you are at the Essar, maybe at the Gulf, possibly somewhere else around Canworthy Water.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. No pump has drawn it in, and so the AdBlue sits just in the tank.
Next: resist the urge to start it just to move away from the petrol pump. A few things: a push into a bay with the attendants assisting, the receipt saved, and a call to us from where you stand. Draining it there at the petrol pump is fine if it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Canworthy Water, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle from the garage, tipped in on the drive — and it was only at the recycling that the cap got your eye. Drives close to Trelawney Close get it as much as any other street.
The point: no driving since leaves it nearly as good to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of the tank and remains put, however long it waits.
Your move: the keys indoors, and so nobody drives your vehicle off first thing. After that, ring. Your drive is where it gets emptied, whether in Canworthy Water or Fonston. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Canworthy Water with AdBlue in a diesel
A short way beyond filling up, your motor started playing up: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Anywhere along Bury Close or on the road towards Plymouth — under 50 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the system. Distance decides how deep it gets: filter and lines to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. It goes deeper with every extra mile driven and each restart.
Your move: stop somewhere sensible, then turn your motor off. Leave at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, under 50 miles from Canworthy Water. No trial restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. About how far did it gone? Tell us when you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have only driven the car for days. Unknown to you, the two fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or keeps it in another spot. Wherever you are in Cornwall, every motorist can be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under many rental and company contracts.
Settling it before the van arrives is faster, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Keep the car off as the answer comes, whether you are parked at the nearest station or close to Warbstow Community Centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Canworthy Water?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A slight ammonia whiff lingers around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is a blur. It might have been at a friend's drive in Broad Langdon, or rushing by Warbstow Primary Academy on the school run.
Put simply: a spill round your filler leaves your motor no harm. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the vehicle will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Your move: act as if it got in, and never start your engine. Ring with what you saw: we'd sooner find a clean tank than empty one once the motor has been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Canworthy Water shares these stages
Every situation gets the same start to the work. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street near St Werburgh, Warbstow, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if the engine has been run. Replies set the job; the price comes on the call while nobody has left yet.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, since crystals build up and some metals are attacked, and none of that washes away unaided. Then is the fuel filter — cleaned, or replaced where needed — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Where the engine hasn't been started, expect about half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Our technicians check it runs smoothly on new diesel before we leave. Our engineers do the whole job where the car is, and permanent damage is very unusual when it has been spotted quickly. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money upfront. Many insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Canworthy Water
Canworthy Water is a small village in Cornwall, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of 107 metres. Canworthy Water lies near the villages of Fonston and Canworthy, and is approximately 28 miles from Plymouth. Canworthy Water has a population of around 527 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Canworthy Water is located in the South West region of England, about 198.5 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cornwall, Canworthy Water included
Canworthy Water is a village, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Canworthy and Warbstow among them, across the PL postcode area. Giving us a PL15 8 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Treglith Manor or in a car park in the middle of Canworthy Water, it does not need to move. Draining is done on the spot. Awkward to explain? By Warbstow Bury or a border? Checking beats assuming, so ring.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, ring and keep it off. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Canworthy Water and anywhere across Cornwall on 0333 366 0103.