Enfield: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of it hinges on a single detail: if the engine has started after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether your car is around Enfield itself or out in Batchley. Normally that means emptying and thoroughly cleaning it on the spot around Enfield — and so leave your key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. When the engine has run, pull in safely first, then turn it off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Worcestershire it happened.
On a Enfield forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only spot it while you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. It might be the Sainsbury's, or perhaps the BP, or a different station in Enfield.
The upshot: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. Just your tank has AdBlue; not one component beyond it has drawn any in.
What to do: do not get back in and start it to clear the pump. Three things: a shove into a bay with the attendants assisting, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt sensible, and so we can drain the car where it is.
At home around Enfield with AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. It happens on driveways just off Windsor Road as often as anywhere.
In short: if the car hasn't been driven since, it's almost equal to finding out at the pump. As it is unable to blend, AdBlue drops low in that tank and waits. One night standing alters none of that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that's around Enfield or out in Redditch. Even at night, the pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Enfield?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way after the fill. Maybe it was on Marton Close, maybe on the way out towards Birmingham, under 15 miles away.
The upshot: your system has drawn AdBlue through already. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. On the M42, under 5 miles from Enfield, that means the next exit, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to check. About how far did it go? Say so as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside the diesel. Across Worcestershire, nobody is immune.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or not — and one extra stage. Any work on the car often needs the owner's approval under rental or fleet agreements.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. Keep the car switched off while the answer arrives, whether you are parked at Redditch or near Redditch Assemblies of God.
Enfield: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. A slight ammonia-like whiff lingers around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. The gates of Holyoakes Field First School in a hurry, say, or someone's driveway over in St Georges.
The point: the engine is not hurt by a little AdBlue spilled around the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the car would pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: act as though it got in, and keep your motor off. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What each AdBlue drain in Enfield has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Forecourt, drive, The Railway Inn's car park or a road beside Abbey Stadium Sports Centre — the van reaches your vehicle, and three answers come next: what liquid, which amount, and whether it ran. Those replies settle this work, and you get the price by phone, before anybody sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last come your filter, flushed or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of your car. Where your motor has not been started, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most jobs.
Finally, our engineers fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we confirm it is running smoothly, and then we leave. If it is noticed early, the vehicle very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Enfield and where it is
Enfield is a suburban area in Worcestershire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 99 metres. Enfield lies near the cities of Birmingham and Redditch, with the surrounding countryside offering a mix of rural and urban landscapes. Enfield has a population of around 4756 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Enfield is also close to other nearby places such as Riverside and Smallwood.
AdBlue drains around Enfield, and across Worcestershire too
Riverside and Smallwood get the identical teams as Enfield, a residential suburb, along with further towns over B postcodes. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning B97 6.
Stopped heading to Church Green, or bang in the centre of Enfield, your vehicle remains put — there is no need to move it at all. The van drains it in place. Tricky to pin down? Close to Redditch United FC or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Worcestershire and in Enfield — after you stop, switch off then phone, if it's run.