AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Corpusty, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has been run since it went in. Out in Foundry Hill or right around Corpusty, an unstarted engine should stay unrun. Usually this is emptying and properly cleaning it right there around Corpusty — so leave your key and motor off and call 0333 366 0103. Where your engine has run, stop somewhere safe straight away, then switch the car off. It's a larger job, though step one doesn't change.
Further down: the situations we meet, wherever around Norfolk. Choose yours.
Corpusty forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Imagine it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you realise the cap you took off wasn't the correct one. Maybe you're at the Gulf, perhaps at the another forecourt nearby, maybe somewhere else in Corpusty.
The upshot: of all places to find out, this is the best. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. A few jobs: a push into a bay with the attendants helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from where you stand. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Corpusty drive?
For days the dashboard had been warning you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Driveways near Link Road see it as much as anywhere.
The point: no driving since makes this almost equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. At the bottom of that tank is where AdBlue stays, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
Put your keys indoors tonight — otherwise someone may take it off at breakfast — and phone us. In Saxthorpe or right here in Corpusty, the draining happens on your drive. Late-night empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Corpusty?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long your motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Maybe driving for Norwich, under 25 miles away, or simply down Irmingland Road.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. The high-pressure pump and every injector see it too on a longer run, once the fuel filter and pipework have had it. More miles, more starts: further it travels.
Next: pick a safe spot, pull in, then switch the engine off. On the M11, over 50 miles from Corpusty, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, so there is no sense starting it again to check. Phone us and say how far you went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet was right beside your diesel. Any driver, wherever in Norfolk, could make the same.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Stuck near Corpusty & Saxthorpe Village Sign or at Sheringham till someone replies, your vehicle remains turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Corpusty?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's driveway in Oulton, or in a rush by Corpusty Primary School at the school run.
In short: a spill near the filler does the motor no harm. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start the motor. Ring us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Corpusty AdBlue drain
Whatever the case, one start applies. We come to the car, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at Dukes Head or a side street near Corpusty & Saxthorpe Village Hall, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your motor has been run. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear our quote, and those answers decide the job too.
Emptying the tank comes first, then a careful flush — more important after urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
We fire it up last. We check it runs correctly on new diesel before we go. We do the entire job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very rare when it has been caught early. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your policy as you wait pays.
About Corpusty, briefly
Corpusty is a small village in Norfolk, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 29 metres. Corpusty lies approximately 15 miles northwest of Norwich and 105 miles northeast of London, with nearby villages including Saxthorpe and Little London. Corpusty has a population of around 516 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Corpusty remains a quiet riverside community with a rural character.
AdBlue drains in Corpusty, and across Norfolk too
Throughout NR postcodes, the vans serving Corpusty — a village — reach surrounding towns too, Little London and Red Pits among them. Your whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode beginning NR11 6.
Parked en route to St Andrew's Spinney, or bang in the centre of Corpusty, the vehicle stays where it is — there's no need to move it at all. Our van empties it where it stands. Tricky to explain? Close to Saint Peter's or a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
The one-line version
Engine not started: ring, and leave it alone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Corpusty and anywhere across Norfolk on 0333 366 0103.