Corby Glen: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on a single fact: whether your engine has been run after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Wherever your car stands — Birkholme, Corby Glen — never start a motor that hasn't run yet. Normally this means emptying and thoroughly flushing it right there in Corby Glen — and so keep your ignition and motor off and call 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Wherever across Lincolnshire it took place, one of the cases below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Corby Glen forecourt
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 around Corby Glen, then — AS 24, Esso, or anywhere else nearby.
In short: no better spot to be to spot it. Still inside the tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. A few things: a shove into a bay with the attendants helping, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
Corby Glen, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Driveways near Moreley's Lane see it as much as anywhere.
Put simply: if the car has not been driven since, it's almost as good as finding out at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Our technicians drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that is around Corby Glen or out in Burton-le-Coggles. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Corby Glen: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. Bourne Road, say, or the way towards Peterborough — a run of under 25 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the system. The high-pressure pump and each injector see it too on a longer run, once your filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that's the first job — then switch it off. Services further on are too far: from the Great North Road, under 25 miles out of Corby Glen, take the first junction. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us hear the mileage covered when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
A week ago, the car was new to you. Your own car either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet was right next to the diesel. Across Lincolnshire, no one is immune.
In short: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which turn on if it's run. Any work on your car often needs the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. Stranded near Corby Glen Methodist Church or at Grantham until someone replies, the vehicle remains switched off throughout.
Corby Glen: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. Lighter, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near the filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? A hurried top-up by the gates of Corby Glen Community Primary School, or a call to a friend in Irnham: either fits.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no harm to the engine. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be pulled in by firing up your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave the engine off. Ring and give what you saw: we would sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your engine has been run.
Corby Glen: what every AdBlue drain has in common
No matter the situation, a single opening is used. We come to the car, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Woodhouse Arms or a side street near Saint John the Evangelist, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear the price, and those answers shape the job too.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which counts 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. Next is your filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Where the engine has not run, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
Lastly, we start the engine. Before our engineers go, it's tested to confirm it runs correctly on new diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it is spotted early, long-term damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Corby Glen
Corby Glen is a village in southern Lincolnshire, situated near the River Glen and surrounded by rolling countryside. Corby Glen has a population of around 1006 people and is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Corby Glen sits at an elevation of 77 metres, approximately 20 miles from Peterborough and 91 miles from London. Corby Glen is close to nearby villages such as Burton-le-Coggles, Swayfield, and Swinstead.
AdBlue drains around Corby Glen, and across Lincolnshire too
Swayfield and Swinstead have the same teams as Corby Glen, a village, plus other places throughout NG postcodes. Giving us a NG33 4 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is needed, whether stopped centrally in Corby Glen or in a lay-by en route to Cowslip Spinney, so leave it where it is. The van drains it in place. Phone and check rather than guess if you're close to St Thomas of Canterbury, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle off and phone. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Corby Glen or wherever in Lincolnshire.