AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ettingshall Park: What Now?
Has your engine run since the AdBlue went in? This one question settles almost everything about what comes next. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Ettingshall Park itself or out in Cinder Hill. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. Across Ettingshall Park, that is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, yes, but the identical opening move.
Further down: the situations we see, anywhere around West Midlands. Pick yours.
At the petrol pump around Ettingshall Park: 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. Anywhere around Ettingshall Park, then — BP, Texaco, or anywhere else close by.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. Still inside your tank, and no fuel drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Three jobs: a shove into a space with the attendants helping, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Ettingshall Park
Days had passed with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Drives close to Ashbourne Road see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or a person may drive it away at breakfast — then phone us. In Lanesfield or here in Ettingshall Park, the draining happens at your drive. Our pumping kit works quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Ettingshall Park: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two beyond the top-up. Maybe it was on Cranbourne Avenue, possibly on the way out towards Wolverhampton, under 3 miles away.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. Past your filter, through the pipework, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that's the next step — then switch it off. On the M6, under 5 miles from Ettingshall Park, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Roughly what distance had it gone? Tell us as you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have just driven this car a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right next to your diesel cap — news to you. Anywhere you happen to be across West Midlands, every driver can slip up.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts require the owner's approval before work.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager first, us second, because settling it early saves time. Stuck near The Parish Church of The Most Holy Trinity Ettingshall or at Coseley till the firm replies, the car remains switched off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Ettingshall Park?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. A slight ammonia smell hangs near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Spring Vale Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Woodcross.
In short: a spill round your filler leaves the motor no harm. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't fire it up. Ring and give what you saw: we would sooner confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once the motor has run.
Every AdBlue drain in Ettingshall Park shares these stages
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at Three Crowns or a side street near Beacon Hill Quarries, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if your engine has run. Those replies settle the work, and you hear our quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then the tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next comes the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of your car. Never started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
The final step is firing it up. With new diesel in, it runs while our technicians confirm it's running correctly, and then we leave. We do the whole job where your car is, and long-term damage is very uncommon if it has been spotted quickly. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as we travel pays.
About Ettingshall Park
Ettingshall Park is a suburban area located near Wolverhampton, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Ettingshall Park sits at an elevation of 182 metres, inland in the West Midlands region. Ettingshall Park is close to nearby places such as Lanesfield, Greenleighs, and Parkfield, and is approximately 2.1 miles from Wolverhampton city centre. Ettingshall Park has a population of around 5589 residents.
AdBlue drains around Ettingshall Park and across West Midlands
Ettingshall Park is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Greenleighs and Parkfield among them, across the WV postcode area. A postcode starting WV4 6 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Ettingshall Park or a layby near Black Country Millennium Forest: either way it sits, your car never needs to shift at all for us. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it is. Guessing doesn't help near Guru Ka Niwas Gurdwara, close to a border or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: ring, leaving it alone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Ettingshall Park and anywhere in West Midlands on 0333 366 0103.