--- title: What Now? AdBlue in a Diesel Tank East Looe canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/east-looe-cornwall/ location: East Looe county: Cornwall latitude: 50.353400 longitude: -4.452900 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-15 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in East Looe, and What to Do Next What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it went in. Anywhere the car is — Plaidy, East Looe — don't start a motor that hasn't been started yet. Leave the motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around East Looe. Pull over the moment it is safe then turn off, if it has already run. A larger job, yes, yet the same first move. Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Cornwall it happened. ## At the pump around East Looe: AdBlue in a diesel Just at this point, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Possibly you're at the Texaco, possibly at the another forecourt nearby, possibly somewhere else around East Looe. What it means: this is the best location to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in. Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the pump needs freeing. A few things: a push into a bay with the attendants assisting, the receipt kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a car that can't be pushed clear gets cleared right at the petrol pump. ## At home in East Looe with AdBlue in your diesel tank For days the dashboard had been nagging you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Driveways near East Cliff see it as much as any other street. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops low in that tank and waits. A night standing changes none of that. What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. We drain it on your drive, whether that is around East Looe or out in Looe. Late-night empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise. ## On the road around East Looe with AdBlue in a diesel Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a short way beyond the top-up. Possibly it was on Barbican Hill, possibly on the way out towards Plymouth, under 15 miles away. The point: your system has pulled AdBlue through by now. Distance sets how far it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. More driving, more starts: further it goes. Next: find a sensible place, pull in, then turn your engine off. East Looe sits under 50 miles from the M5; on it, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on for the services. No test restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Let us hear the distance covered when you ring. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car You've had the vehicle hardly a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet sits just next to the diesel. Anyone, anywhere across Cornwall, could make it. Meaning? Whichever case above applies here — run or not — and one further stage. Any work on the car often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms. Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. Stuck near Old Guild Hall or at Looe until someone replies, the car stays turned off throughout. ## East Looe: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? "I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. A faint ammonia smell hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. The gates of Looe Primary Academy in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's drive over in Hannafore. The point: your engine is not harmed by some AdBlue spilled around the filler. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on your car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either. Next: act as though it got in, then keep your motor off. 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. ## Each AdBlue drain in East Looe shares these stages Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. We come to your car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Fishermans Arms or a side street near The Wooldown torch, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the engine has been run. Your price is given over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and those answers shape the work. Then the tank is drained and your system rinsed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Then comes the filter — flushed, or replaced where needed — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment our technicians arrive. The last step is firing it up. Our technicians make sure it runs correctly on new diesel before leaving. When it is caught early, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes included in plenty of policies. ## About East Looe East Looe is a suburban area situated on the coast of Cornwall, with a population of around 2193 people. East Looe lies near the town of Looe and the village of Shutta, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. East Looe is located close to the city of Plymouth, which is approximately 13.7 miles away. East Looe sits at a low elevation of around 13 metres above sea level, overlooking the coastal waters of the South West region. ## AdBlue drains round East Looe and across Cornwall East Looe is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Shutta and West Looe among them, across the PL postcode area. The location is clearest from a postcode beginning PL13 1. Stopped en route to Wooldown, or bang in the heart of East Looe, the car remains put — there is no need to move it at all. Our technicians drain the car where it stands. Assuming doesn't help near St Nicholas, on a county line or anywhere awkward to describe; phone and ask. ## The one-line version Not run yet: keep it off and call. Run by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across East Looe and Cornwall, on 0333 366 0103.