AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Carrick Knowe: What Now?
Has your motor turned over since the AdBlue got in? That single question settles nearly everything else from here. Not started so far? Then keep it like that, whether the vehicle is — Carrick Knowe or Stenhouse. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where your vehicle stands in Carrick Knowe. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical opening move.
Below: the cases our technicians see, wherever around City of Edinburgh. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Carrick Knowe forecourt
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It might be the Tesco, or perhaps the BP, or another forecourt in Carrick Knowe.
In short: there is no better place to be to spot it. Nothing has pulled it through, so the AdBlue sits just in the tank.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Carrick Knowe with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Bought a bottle, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, after the fact. Houses just off Carrick Knowe Gardens are caught out as often as anywhere else.
Put simply: if the car hasn't been driven since, it's almost equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Being unable to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and stays. One night standing alters nothing.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by putting the keys indoors, then ring us. Your driveway is where it is drained, whether in Carrick Knowe or Broomhouse. The pumping kit runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Carrick Knowe?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere along Carrick Knowe Drive or else heading to Edinburgh — under 5 miles away.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. Past the fuel filter, through the lines, and — the further the distance — on into the injection pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, then switch your engine off. On the M8, under 3 miles from Carrick Knowe, that means the next exit, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, so there is no point restarting to check. Ring us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have just driven this car for days. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is just by the diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Anyone, wherever across City of Edinburgh, might do it.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, only with an added stage. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements need the owner's sign-off before work.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before our engineers arrive than after. Stuck near Carrick Knowe Parish Church or at South Gyle until someone answers, the vehicle stays switched off throughout.
Carrick Knowe: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; a hazy recollection of which cap. Look familiar? The gates of the local primary school in a rush, say, or a friend's drive out in Saughtonhall.
In short: spillage near your filler leaves the engine no harm. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be drawn in by turning on the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Assume it was put in, and don't start your engine. Checking a tank that turns out clean beats draining one once it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
Carrick Knowe: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Terrace or a side street close to St Anne's Church, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the engine has run. Those answers settle the work, and you hear the quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals build up and some metals corrode, and neither rinses out unaided. Clean diesel goes in after the filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then tested. The majority of unstarted cars are a half-hour job from the moment our technicians arrive.
Lastly, we fire it up. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before our technicians leave. If it's spotted quickly, the vehicle very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire 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. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Carrick Knowe
Carrick Knowe is a suburban area in the City of Edinburgh, situated approximately 3.5 miles west of Edinburgh's city centre. Carrick Knowe lies close to the Firth of Forth, at an elevation of around 44 metres, and is characterised by its predominantly flat-type housing. Carrick Knowe is bordered by nearby places such as Broomhouse, Saughton, and Corstorphine, and is home to a population of around 7190 residents.
Carrick Knowe and City of Edinburgh: AdBlue drains across the area
Saughton and Corstorphine get the same teams as Carrick Knowe, a residential suburb, plus further places over EH postcodes. Fastest of all: a EH12 7 postcode for where you stand.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Carrick Knowe Community Woodland or in a car park in the middle of Carrick Knowe, it does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it stands. Guessing doesn't help beside Corstorphine Library, close to a border or anywhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and call. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Carrick Knowe and anywhere across City of Edinburgh on 0333 366 0103.