AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Craigie, and What to Do Next
Has the motor run since the AdBlue went in? This one point decides almost everything about what comes next. Not started so far? Then leave the vehicle that way, whether the car is — Craigie or Fintry. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. Across Craigie, that is generally emptied and cleaned on the spot. When the engine has run, stop safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same opening move.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Dundee City it happened.
Craigie forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Whether Asda, Esso or somewhere else around Craigie, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. No pump has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue sits only in your tank.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the pump needs freeing. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, save the bottle, then ring us from there. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Craigie
On your dash, a warning had been lit for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Houses just off Bellisle Place are hit as much as anywhere else.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of your tank is where AdBlue stays, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes no difference.
Your move: keys indoors, so nobody takes the car anywhere at breakfast. After that, ring. Linlathen or Craigie: whichever your drive is, that's where it gets drained. Our equipment runs quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
On the road around Craigie with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a short way beyond the fill. Maybe heading for Dundee, under 3 miles away, or simply down Kingsway East.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Through the filter, through the lines, and — the more the distance — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. It goes deeper with each extra mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M90, under 25 miles from Craigie. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, and say how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have just driven the vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Dundee City, nobody is immune.
Put simply: an extra step on top of the situations above, which turn on if it's run. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts need the owner's sign-off before work.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck near St Ninian's Scottish Episcopal Church or outside Dundee until someone replies, your car stays turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Craigie?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A slight ammonia-like smell hangs around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is a blur. A hurried stop by the gates of the local primary school, or a visit to a friend in Douglas and Angus: either fits.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to your engine. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the vehicle will suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start the engine. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Craigie AdBlue drain
Whatever the case, a single start is used. Our engineers come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Boars Rock or a side street near CWGC Cross of Sacrifice, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and whether your engine has been run. Those replies decide the work, and you hear our price on the phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't wash out on its own; that is why a full flush, after this drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next is the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Starting the car comes at the end. Our check that it runs properly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. The whole job is done where the car is, and when it is spotted early, long-term damage is very unusual. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes built into many policies.
About Craigie
Craigie is a coastal suburban area in Dundee City, situated approximately 2.1 miles from Dundee city centre. Craigie sits at an elevation of 56 metres, overlooking the coastline. Craigie is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the area's residential development. Craigie is close to nearby places such as Linlathen, Stannergate, and Maryfield.
Craigie and Dundee City: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Craigie has the same vans as the nearby places — Maryfield, Stannergate — right through DD postcodes. Giving us a DD4 8 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is required, be it parked centrally in Craigie or on a lay-by en route to Mid Craigie Park, and so leave it put. Draining is done on the spot. Ring and check instead of guessing when you are by Odeon, near a border, or anywhere awkward to explain.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep it off and call. Started already? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, in Craigie and Dundee City, on 0333 366 0103.