Carnkief: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing matters above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has been started since. Anywhere your car is — Goonhavern, Carnkief — don't run an engine that has not run yet. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where the vehicle stands around Carnkief. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one stays unchanged, even if the job grows.
Match your case to one of the ones below, anywhere across Cornwall you happen to be.
Carnkief forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, bottle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Be it Texaco, another forecourt nearby or somewhere else in Carnkief, the case is identical.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. Only your tank holds AdBlue; not one part past it has taken any in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
Carnkief, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Driveways close to A3075 get it as much as anywhere.
In short: if your car hasn't moved since, it's nearly as good as finding out at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and stays put, no matter how long the night.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it gets emptied, be it in Carnkief or Wheal Frances. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Carnkief with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and soon the motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Possibly it was on Goonhilly Close, perhaps on the way out towards Truro, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. Mileage decides how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and every injector. Each restart, like each mile, carries it deeper.
Pull in safely — that's the first job — then turn it off. On the M5, over 50 miles from Carnkief, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Call us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a car you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Anyone, wherever in Cornwall, could make the same.
Meaning? Whatever case above applies too — run or not — and one further step. Plenty of rental and company agreements need the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Stuck by Caer Kief or outside Truro until the firm replies, the car remains switched off the whole time.
Carnkief: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Goonhavern Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Perranzabuloe.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no damage to the motor. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different story. Starting your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would pull it in.
Assume it went in, and don't turn the key. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Carnkief: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work begins the same way, whichever your case. Anywhere your car is — The New Inn's car park, a road by Caer Dane, a drive, a forecourt — our van gets there and asks about the fluid, the amount, plus whether the motor has turned over. The price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies set the job.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush — more important with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Clean diesel is put in once the fuel filter is cleaned or changed, and the car is then tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit from the moment we turn up.
Our engineers start the car last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our technicians check it is running properly, and then we head off. We do the entire job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very rare when it has been noticed soon. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Carnkief and where it is
Carnkief is a coastal locality in Cornwall, situated near the city of Truro and overlooking the surrounding countryside from an elevation of 79 metres. Carnkief is characterised by its detached housing and is close to nearby places such as Wheal Frances and Perranwell. Carnkief remains a small community with a population of around 573 residents. Carnkief is located approximately 231.8 miles west of London, in the South West region of England.
AdBlue drains across Cornwall, Carnkief included
Carnkief is a coastal area, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Perranwell and Ventongimps among them, across the TR postcode area. Giving us a TR4 9 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Eustace's Plantation or in a car park in the middle of Carnkief, it does not need to move. Our engineers drain the car where it is. Ring and check rather than guess when you're close to Goonhavern Community Centre, on a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Your scenario, in one line
Engine not started: phone, and leave it alone. Started already? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever case, across Carnkief and Cornwall, on 0333 366 0103.