Cookham Dean: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your motor has been run since it got in. Out in Cookham Rise or here around Cookham Dean, an unstarted motor should stay unrun. Call 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and engine still off. In Cookham Dean, such a case is typically drained and cleaned on the spot. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, yes, but the identical opening step.
Anywhere in Berkshire it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
On a Cookham Dean forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you spot the filler you took off was not the correct one. Be it BP, Esso or somewhere else in Cookham Dean, the situation is identical.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Still inside your tank, and no fuel drawn through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump wants freeing. Phone us from the forecourt once your vehicle is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — then save the receipt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away gets drained right at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Cookham Dean drive?
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle from the shop, tipped in on the driveway — and it's only at the bin that the cap caught your eye. It takes place on drives just off Dean Lane as often as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, since it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by keeping your keys in the house, then phone us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether around Cookham Dean or Winter Hill. Night-time drains outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Cookham Dean?
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. Cookham Dean Bottom, perhaps, or the way towards St Albans — a run of under 25 miles.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue through already. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have it. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, and switch the motor off. Service stations further on can wait: on the A404(M), under 3 miles out of Cookham Dean, use the next junction. No trial restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. About what distance had it gone? Tell us when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've only had this vehicle a week. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it in another spot. Any driver, anywhere around Berkshire, might make it.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies here — run or unrun — plus one extra step. The owner frequently has to sign off the work, under many hire and company agreements.
Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Stuck near Kenneth Grahame or at Marlow until someone answers, the vehicle remains turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Cookham Dean?
At times, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. Which cap came off, you can't say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and ammonia hangs by your filler. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Bisham, or rushing outside Cookham Dean CofE Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no harm to the engine. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up your car would pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Do this: act as though it did, and never start your engine. Phone with what you saw: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once the engine has been run.
What every AdBlue drain in Cookham Dean has in common
The work begins the same way, whichever your case. Three things come when we reach the car — at a filling station, a driveway, a street beside Cookham Dean Village Hall or the car park outside The Inn On The Green: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has been started. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told the price, and those replies shape the job too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. The majority of unstarted cars are a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive.
The final step is firing it up. With new diesel in, it runs while we check it is running smoothly, and then we go. Our technicians do the whole job where your car is, and permanent damage is very rare when it has been noticed quickly. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Cookham Dean
Cookham Dean is a suburban area in Berkshire, situated on the banks of the River Thames. Cookham Dean has a relatively low elevation of 64 metres and is located near the villages of Cookham and Bigfrith. Cookham Dean is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is a quiet residential community within the South East region. Cookham Dean is also close to Winter Hill, which offers scenic views of the surrounding countryside.
Cookham Dean and Berkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Cookham Dean shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Cookham, Bigfrith — right across SL postcodes. Giving us your SL6 9 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Tugwood Common or in a car park in the middle of Cookham Dean, it does not need to move. Draining happens on the spot. Phone and check instead of guessing when you're close to Saint John the Baptist, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the car off and call. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Cookham Dean and anywhere across Berkshire on 0333 366 0103.