AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Denny Bottom, and What to Do Next
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This one point decides nearly everything else from here. Not run so far? Then keep the car that way, whether the vehicle is — Denny Bottom or Nevill Park. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and motor still off. In Denny Bottom, such a case is typically emptied and flushed where it stands. Where the motor has been run, stop safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the cases our technicians see, anywhere in Kent. Pick yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Denny Bottom forecourt
You are 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. Perhaps you are at the BP, possibly at the Shell, perhaps somewhere else around Denny Bottom.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so do not get back in. Three things: a push into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Denny Bottom drive?
On the dash, a reminder had shown for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had used on the drive. It occurs on driveways just off Woodside Road as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. At the bottom of that tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. In Lower Green or right here in Denny Bottom, the draining is done at your driveway. Our equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
On the road in Denny Bottom with AdBlue in a diesel
A mile or two after filling up, the motor began playing up: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on the dash. Harmony Street, say, or the route to Brighton and Hove — a trip of under 50 miles.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. It's been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up somewhere safe, then switch your engine off. On the M25, under 15 miles from Denny Bottom, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Phone us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
It is a motor you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Throughout Kent, nobody is immune.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Hanging on for an answer at the car park at Tunbridge Wells, or beside Sunnyside Community Hall? Leave the car off meanwhile.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Denny Bottom
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's driveway in Hungershall Park, or in a rush by Bishops Down Primary and Nursery School on the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never reach your motor at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: act as though it got in, then keep the engine off. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank looked at is a better result than a run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain around Denny Bottom has in common
The work opens the same way, whatever the case. Forecourt, drive, Toad Rock Retreat's car park or a street by St Paul's Church — the van comes to your car, and three questions come next: which liquid, which quantity, and whether it ran. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told our price, and those answers decide the job too.
Emptying that tank comes first, then a full flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Then comes the fuel filter — flushed, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
The last step is firing it up. Our engineers confirm it runs correctly on fresh diesel before leaving. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's caught early, permanent damage is very unusual. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling is included in many policies.
About Denny Bottom itself
Denny Bottom is a suburban area in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of 98 metres, approximately 30 miles from London. Denny Bottom is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock, which dominates the local landscape. Denny Bottom is close to nearby places such as Lower Green, Rusthall, and Broomhill Bank, and is within commuting distance of Brighton and Hove. Denny Bottom has a population of around 3818 residents.
Denny Bottom and Kent: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout TN postcodes, the teams serving Denny Bottom — a residential suburb — work surrounding towns as well, Rusthall and Broomhill Bank included. Your whereabouts is clearest from a postcode beginning TN4 8.
No moving is needed, whether stopped in the centre of Denny Bottom or on a layby en route to Rusthall Common, so keep it put. Where it stands, that's where it is drained. Ring and check instead of guessing when you're close to St Paul's Church Centre, on a boundary, or anywhere tricky to explain.
The one-line version
If it hasn't started, phone and keep it that way. Whichever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Kent and in Denny Bottom — once you stop, switch off then phone, if it's run.