What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Chegworth
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether the engine has run since it was put in. Not started so far? Then keep it like that, whether your car sits — Chegworth or Kingswood. Call 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Chegworth, that is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Already run? Stop once you safely can, then switch it off. It's a bigger job, though stage one does not change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Kent it happened.
Chegworth forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, nozzle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. Somewhere around Chegworth, then — Esso, BP, or anywhere else nearby.
In short: there is no better spot exists to spot it. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so don't get back in. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking spot, keep the receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Chegworth drive?
For days the dash had been warning you. Bought a container, tipped it in at home, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, after the fact. Homes just off Chegworth Road are caught out as much as everywhere else.
The point: no miles since leaves it nearly equal to spotting it at the pump. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue settles low in that tank and waits. One night parked alters nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Our engineers drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that is around Chegworth or out in Broomfield. The pumping kit works quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Chegworth?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. Possibly it was on M20, maybe on the way out towards Canterbury, under 25 miles away.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue through already. Through the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — deeper into the injection pump and each injector. It travels deeper with every mile covered and every restart.
Next: pick a safe place, pull in, then turn your motor off. On the M20, under a mile from Chegworth, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Let us hear the distance driven as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the vehicle barely a week. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside the diesel. Wherever you happen to be across Kent, any motorist could be caught.
Meaning? Whatever applies above counts too — run or not — plus one further stage. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts require the owner's sign-off before repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians arrive than after. Leave the vehicle off while the reply comes, whether you are parked at Harrietsham or close to Saint Margaret Broomfield.
Chegworth: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Occasionally the fair answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Harrietsham Church of England Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Eyhorne Street.
Put simply: spillage round your filler leaves the motor no harm. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, firing up your car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start your engine. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than draining one once it has been run — so phone then tell us what you saw.
Every AdBlue drain in Chegworth shares these steps
The work opens the same way, whichever your case. Forecourt, drive, Park Gate Inn's car park or a street beside Falconry Shows — our van reaches your car, and three answers follow: what fluid, which amount, and if it ran. Replies shape the work; the quote follows on the call whilst nobody has left yet.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Clean diesel goes in after the filter has been flushed or replaced, and your car is finally checked. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. Permanent damage is very unusual when it is spotted early, and the entire job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Chegworth and where it is
Chegworth is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Kent, with a relatively low elevation of 67 metres. Chegworth lies near several other small settlements, including Broomfield and Harrietsham, and is within commuting distance of Canterbury. Chegworth has a population of around 583 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Chegworth is also located within a reasonable distance from London, at approximately 38 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Chegworth, and across Kent too
Harrietsham and Ashbank have the identical vans as Chegworth, a rural hamlet, along with further places throughout ME postcodes. Fastest of all: a ME17 1 postcode to show where you stand.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Leeds Castle Golf Club or in a car park in the middle of Chegworth, it doesn't need to shift. The van drains it in place. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Birds of Prey or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep it off and call. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, across Chegworth and Kent, on 0333 366 0103.