Corkey: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one detail: whether your motor has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not run yet? Then leave the car that way, wherever the vehicle sits — Corkey or Dunloy. Call 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine still off. Across Corkey, that is typically emptied and flushed on the spot. Stop the minute you safely can and turn off, if it has been run. It is a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Compare what happened to one of the list below, anywhere across County Antrim you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Corkey forecourt
Picture it: standing by the pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the filler you took off wasn't the right one. It might be the the nearest petrol station, or perhaps the another forecourt nearby, or another station around Corkey.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. Only your tank holds AdBlue; not one part past it has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Can't move the car beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt safe, so it can be drained in place.
At home in Corkey with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had shown for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the driveway. Driveways near B842 see it as much as any other street.
The point: zero driving since makes it almost as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. At the bottom of your tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. In Loughguile or right here in Corkey, the drain is done at your drive. Our pumping kit works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Corkey?
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. Dunaverty Court, perhaps, or the route towards Belfast — a run of under 50 miles.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the first step — then turn it off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M77, over 50 miles from Corkey. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. About what distance had it go? Tell us as you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you didn't know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in County Antrim.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it beforehand cuts time. Waiting for an answer at the car park at the nearest station, or beside the centre? Leave the engine off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Corkey?
At times the honest answer is "I think so". Which cap came off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of the local primary school in a rush, say, or a friend's drive out in Stranocum.
In short: spillage round your filler leaves your engine no harm. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the vehicle would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, then keep the engine off. Phone with what you saw: we'd rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after the motor has been run.
The common ground in every Corkey AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, drive, the pub in the village's car park or a street by a street just off the centre — our van comes to the car, and three questions follow: what liquid, what quantity, and if it ran. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told our quote, and those answers decide the work too.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last come the fuel filter, cleaned or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a check of your vehicle. Where your motor hasn't been started, expect about half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our check that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers head off. Long-term damage is very rare if it's spotted early, and the whole job is done where the car is. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Corkey
Corkey is a small locality in County Antrim, situated inland at an elevation of 145 metres, approximately 35 miles northwest of Belfast. Corkey is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is located near the villages of Loughguile, Cloughmills, and Armoy. Corkey has a population of around 521 residents, making it a small but distinct community in the region. Corkey is also relatively distant from major cities like London, being around 354 miles away.
AdBlue drains across County Antrim, Corkey included
Throughout BT postcodes, the vans covering Corkey — a small village — reach surrounding towns too, Cloughmills and Armoy included. Your whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts BT44 9.
No towing is needed, whether stopped centrally in Corkey or in a lay-by en route to the green space at the edge of the village, so leave it put. Draining happens right there. Phone and ask rather than guess if you're close to the far end of the built-up part, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to pin down.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and ring. Started already? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whatever it is, in Corkey and County Antrim, on 0333 366 0103.