What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Derryvore
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the motor has run since it went in. Not started so far? Then leave the car that way, wherever the vehicle is — Derryvore or Donagh. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush plus a drain, done just where the car sits in Derryvore. Stop the minute you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. Stage one stays the same, even though the work grows.
Anywhere in County Fermanagh it took place, one of the cases below matches yours.
At the pump in Derryvore: AdBlue in a diesel
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. Whether the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or somewhere else around Derryvore, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Still inside that tank, with no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Three things: a push into a space with the attendants assisting, the receipt kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
At home in Derryvore with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had passed with the warning light on. Picked up a container, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, after the fact. Right off Heugh Road is not different from anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your car has not been driven since, it's second to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and stays put, however long the night.
Keep the keys indoors tonight — otherwise a person may take it away at breakfast — then phone us. Your drive is where it is emptied, whether around Derryvore or Teemore. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Derryvore: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way beyond the fill. Dunskey Street, perhaps, or the way towards Armagh — a trip of under 50 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. Past your filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. More miles, more restarts: further it travels.
What to do: pull over where it's safe then switch off. Exit at the next junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M77, over 50 miles from Derryvore. It will not have cleared, and so there is no sense restarting to find out. About how far did it gone? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a motor you have had for a week. Your own car either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap was just beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around County Fermanagh.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner frequently needs to approve any work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager first, us next, since sorting it early cuts time. Keep it switched off as the reply comes, even if you are waiting at the nearest station or close to the centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Derryvore?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A faint ammonia smell lingers near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is a blur. A hurried top-up by the gates of the local primary school, or a visit to a friend in Wattlebridge: either fit.
The point: your engine isn't harmed by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Assume it got in, and never start the key. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Derryvore has in common
The work opens identically, whatever your situation. Filling station, drive, the pub in the village's car park or a road beside a street just off the centre — the van reaches your vehicle, and three answers follow: which fluid, which quantity, and if it has run. Answers set the job; the quote follows by phone while nobody has set off yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Clean diesel goes in after the filter has been flushed or changed, and the car is finally tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, allow roughly half an hour on site, for most cases.
Lastly, our engineers start it. Before our technicians head off, it's tested to confirm it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your policy while we travel is worthwhile.
About Derryvore itself
Derryvore is a small locality in County Fermanagh, situated inland at an elevation of 44 metres. Derryvore lies near the villages of Teemore and Derrylin, and is approximately 36 miles from the city of Armagh. Derryvore has a population of around 528 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across County Fermanagh, Derryvore included
Derryvore is a small village, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Derrylin and Newtownbutler among them, across the BT postcode area. The location comes clearest from a postcode beginning BT92 9.
Central Derryvore or a lay-by near the green space at the edge of the village: wherever it sits, your vehicle never needs to move at all for this drain. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to the far end of the built-up part or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep the car off and ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, in Derryvore and County Fermanagh, on 0333 366 0103.