Chalkwell: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has run since. Not run yet? Then leave the vehicle that way, whether your vehicle sits — Chalkwell or Southend-on-Sea. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine both off. Across Chalkwell, such a case is typically drained and flushed on the spot. Already started? Pull over when you safely can, then turn everything off. Step one remains the same, even if the job grows.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Essex it happened.
On a Chalkwell forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Anywhere in Chalkwell, then — BP, Tesco, or anywhere else nearby.
Put simply: no better spot to be to spot it. Still in that tank, with no fuel drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a bay — the staff will help roll it — and save the bottle. If it cannot be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Chalkwell
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it's only at the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It occurs on driveways just off The Ridgeway as frequently as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the car has not moved since, it is close to the pump case. On the bottom of the tank sits where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Keep your keys in the house tonight — or a person might take it off first thing — then call us. Out in Westcliff-on-Sea or right here in Chalkwell, the draining happens on your drive. Night-time drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Chalkwell?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been driving to Southend-on-Sea, under 3 miles away, or simply down Chalkwell Avenue.
What it means: the system has pulled the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next job — then turn everything off. On the M2, under 15 miles from Chalkwell, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, so there's no point restarting to find out. Tell us hear the distance covered as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a motor you have had for a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside your diesel. Anywhere you are in Essex, any driver could slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under plenty of hire and fleet agreements.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, since sorting it beforehand saves time. If you're stuck in the car park outside the nearest station, or by St Saviour's, Westcliff, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Chalkwell?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Look familiar? Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Chalkwell Hall Junior School, or on a friend's drive in Prittlewell.
In short: spillage near the filler leaves the motor unharmed. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Don't start the vehicle. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats draining one after it's been run — so phone and describe to us what you noticed.
What every AdBlue drain in Chalkwell has in common
The job opens the same way, whatever your situation. Anywhere the vehicle is — The Lamb & Lion's car park, a street by The Crow Stone, a driveway, a forecourt — our van arrives and asks about the liquid, the quantity, plus if your motor has been run. Those replies decide this work, and you get the price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then your tank is drained and your system purged 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Clean diesel is put in once the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced, and the car is then tested. Most unstarted cars are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers get there.
Our engineers fire it up last. Our engineers make sure it runs properly on fresh diesel before we leave. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it's caught soon, permanent damage is very unusual. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over.
About Chalkwell
Chalkwell is a suburban area located on the coast of Essex, situated near the city of Southend-on-Sea. Chalkwell sits at an elevation of 13 metres, looking out over the Thames Estuary, and is close to other nearby places such as Westcliff-on-Sea and Leigh-on-Sea. Chalkwell is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is home to a population of around 6275 people. Chalkwell is also within commuting distance of London, being approximately 34.7 miles from the capital.
AdBlue drains across Essex, Chalkwell included
Chalkwell is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Leigh-on-Sea and Clifftown among them, across the SS postcode area. Giving us your SS0 8 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Rose Garden or in a car park in the middle of Chalkwell, it doesn't need to move. Where it sits, that's where it is drained. Awkward to pin down? By Sir David Amess or a border? Checking beats guessing, so ring.
Your scenario, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Started already? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, in Chalkwell and Essex, on 0333 366 0103.