AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Currock? Keep It Switched Off
If AdBlue has gone into your diesel tank, keep your motor off then keep the ignition off. Water with urea dissolved in it: that is AdBlue. Unlike fuel, it neither burns nor mixes, and no harm starts until the motor sucks it round. In Currock, AdBlue in a diesel tank found before your motor runs usually comes down to a drain and a thorough flush, right where the vehicle is. Nothing comes before ringing 0333 366 0103.
Currock, AdBlue in the diesel tank: what to do at once
Things to do:
- Keys out — that way nobody can power anything on.
- Put the hazard lights on if you are at all near moving traffic.
- Which product, and roughly how much volume? Save the bottle or the receipt, and our technicians can see.
- Give us a postcode starting CA2 4, or whichever street lies nearest, and our van finds you directly — so ring wherever you are.
Things not to do:
- Not even for a second, and not to roll the vehicle: your motor remains off.
- Plenty of diesels run their pump the instant the ignition goes on, and so keep the car off.
- No more fuel added. The AdBlue will not mix, so it is wasted.
- Keep it where it is rather than driving it anywhere, even a short distance up Blackwell Road.
- Do not try to drain it yourself by the roadside.
Ask the people behind the counter to help you roll the car off the island if you're on a forecourt around Currock, whether it is the Esso or somewhere else. Parked on your own driveway? Then it stays just as it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
Made for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in your engine. Stored in a separate tank, it's squirted into the exhaust stream to clean the fumes. A fuel pump is not designed to take it, and AdBlue was never supposed to go through one.
It does not combine. After it's poured into the tank, AdBlue behaves not at all like fuel. It's heavier than diesel, and so it sinks and collects at the bottom of your tank, which is where the pickup pulls fuel from. The first thing the system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a motor that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Cummersdale last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of that tank, and nothing has sucked it in.
After it is drawn in, the damage comes in two forms. It eats at some metals found in fuel systems, working on any part it reaches till it's cleared from your system. And once the water goes, the urea turns into crystals that clog filters and lodge in narrow passages. Lines holding AdBlue mean damage by morning for a vehicle sitting around Currock. Only in your tank, it stays the same. The water in it causes harm of its own: the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors rely on diesel to lubricate them, and water offers them nothing.
AdBlue in a diesel: why it's regularly worse than petrol
Petrol put into a diesel on JET's forecourt makes your fuel watery — that's the main issue. It mixes with the diesel, and whilst it is inside your tank it does no harm; the harm comes from running your motor on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is a fault of the wrong substance altogether. It can't just be run through, since it does not burn. Deposits and corrosion stay after the next tankful, and AdBlue separates back from your diesel, and so watering it can't work. Hence the flush matters so much, and trying the engine "to see" costs more here than nearly any other mistake — in Carlisle or the centre of Currock equally.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Clearing a tank is the simplest part on a fuel system, and without start-up, the AdBlue remains in it — wherever across Cumbria your vehicle has stopped.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Currock?
Plenty of cars put the AdBlue cap alongside the diesel cap, now and then under a single flap, and in dim light the two may appear identical. Nobody means it. A container bought while driving home and poured in outside the house, instead of at the forecourt, is the typical route.
A few familiar ways account for the majority of them. The refill is rushed outside The Bishop Harvey Goodwin School (Church of England Voluntary Aided), after your dash lit up with a warning while the kids were dropped in. In the evening, a bottle goes in on a drive close to Boston Avenue. Else, after dark by The Currock, the vehicle is refilled by someone opening that flap for the first time.
It occurs most in the vehicles people know least: a hire car, a new motor, a company car, or the second car of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Keep it switched off: that's the first response to an identical mistake, wherever around Currock or the rest of Cumbria you are.
Already started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank in Currock?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. Via your filter, along the pipework, and — with any running — into the injection pump and every injector: that's where it has gone.
Maybe returning from Upperby Park, or part way across Currock, your engine might go rough, smoke, lose power, light up your dash or stall. Once you safely can, pull over and turn it off — without restarting to test. Each start pulls more of it through.
On the M6, under 3 miles from Currock, the first junction is where to exit, and anywhere sensible is where to stop — not driving on.
Mileage counts: each mile carries the AdBlue further in, and so driving towards Carlisle, under 3 miles away, makes a far larger job than hopping across Currock to the car park by St Herberts Church. Tell us roughly how far it had come.
Our technicians do all of the rinsing where the car has stopped, and once the engine has been run there is more of it. Spotted early, it very seldom leaves long-term damage.
Emptying AdBlue in a diesel in Currock: what it takes
The car remains put, whether that's a street beside Currock Community Centre, a driveway, a lay-by or a forecourt around Currock, and our van comes to it. Three replies decide the work, and so first we ask which fluid was put in, about what quantity, and whether your engine has turned over.
Right there, that tank is then emptied, and both the contaminated diesel and the urea leave as one. With AdBlue, far more than with petrol, flushing matters: the whole system is cleaned all the way through because residue will not wash away unaided. Clean diesel goes in after the filter is flushed — or replaced, when it needs to be — and after that the car is tested. About half an hour on site is typical for most jobs where your motor has not run. The pumping gear is explosion-proof, and so a busy forecourt is no fault, and it's quiet enough for a residential street late at night.
The final step is to bleed the fuel system on fresh diesel. Starting the engine comes next, and then you drive off from where the car is parked, outside Carlisle or on a driveway around Currock. Before we leave, our engineers confirm it's running properly with new diesel in. We do it all wherever the vehicle has ended up, and it never has to go to a garage. Insurers want a VAT invoice and an engineer report, and you get both at the end.
About Currock itself
Currock is a suburban area located on the riverside in Cumbria, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Currock sits near the city of Carlisle, at an elevation of around 37 metres, and is close to nearby places such as Upperby and Denton Holme. Currock is home to a population of approximately 6554 people and is situated about 1 mile from Carlisle city centre. Currock forms part of the wider Carlisle urban area, with easy access to the city's amenities.
Currock and Cumbria: AdBlue drains across the area
AdBlue jobs in Currock go to vans that serve the towns near it — Upperby, Denton Holme as well as Longsowerby — and most of Cumbria beyond, across CA postcodes. Near a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
A mobile service suits Currock, a residential suburb: you have no need to bring your vehicle to us, because our technicians drain it there, on a drive, a side street, a parking area or a filling station.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right around Currock
Because each callouts differ, a single price wouldn't be fair. The cost changes first with how long, if at all, the motor has been running, and next with the quantity of AdBlue that was put in. After that it depends on where the car is and whether a technician can get to it safely, which is easier on an open driveway than in a tight gap behind St Margaret Mary's.
That's why every call from Currock starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what got in, how much, and whether it's run. Their replies shrink a range down to a single figure.
You get that price on the phone, before anybody heads out, and you pay on the day, by card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Check your policy whilst we're on the way: plenty include misfuelling cover.
In Currock and still next to the vehicle?
Then, touch nothing — that is the most helpful step there is. Keys out; engine and ignition off. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Currock or wherever in Cumbria, once you call 0333 366 0103 saying it's AdBlue, about what quantity, and if it ran.