AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Felmore: What Now?
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started since. Wherever the car stands — Cranes, Felmore — don't start a motor that hasn't run yet. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Felmore. Stop the minute it is safe then switch off, if it has been run. A larger job, yes, yet the same opening step.
Wherever around Essex it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Felmore forecourt
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you spot the cap you opened was not the right one. Whether BP, Shell or anywhere else in Felmore, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it can be. Nothing has pulled it through, so the AdBlue sits only inside that tank.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Phone us from the forecourt once the car is in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — then keep the receipt. 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.
Felmore, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Homes just off Lanhams get caught out as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? As long as the car has not been driven since, it is second to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of that tank and stays put, however long the night.
Next: prevent any early-morning drive by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Felmore or Burnt Mills. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Felmore?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way beyond the fill. Possibly it was on Felmores, perhaps on the way out towards Southend-on-Sea, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. The injection pump and every injector get it too on a bigger trip, once the filter and pipework have it. It travels further with each mile driven and every restart.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the first step — then turn it off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M25, under 10 miles from Felmore. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us hear the mileage covered when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a motor you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Wherever you happen to be across Essex, every motorist can be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. The owner often needs to approve any work, under many hire and company agreements.
Settling it before the van turn up is faster, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Pitsea, or by Bread of Life Ministries Miracle Centre, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Felmore?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia smell hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. Maybe on a friend's drive in North Benfleet, or in a rush outside Felmore Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never touch your engine at all. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be drawn in by starting your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Assume it went in, and never start the engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better outcome than an already-run one drained.
Each AdBlue drain around Felmore shares these stages
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Three things come once our technicians arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside Everesley Sports Centre or the car park outside The Crane: the fluid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been started. Replies set the work; the price comes on the call while nobody has set off yet.
Then the tank is drained and the fuel 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, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally come the filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; fresh diesel; and a check of your vehicle. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers turn up.
Starting it comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running properly, and then we go. When it's caught soon, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job happens where it is. Payment comes on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents as we travel pays.
About Felmore, for a moment
Felmore is a suburban area in Essex, situated inland at an elevation of around 13 metres, and is located approximately 27.8 miles from London. Felmore forms part of the wider Southend-on-Sea urban area, being around 9.1 miles from the city centre, and is near other local places such as Burnt Mills, Eversley, and Chalvedon. Felmore has a population of around 8841 people and is predominantly composed of terraced housing.
AdBlue drains across Essex, Felmore included
Throughout SS postcodes, the teams serving Felmore — a residential suburb — work surrounding places too, Eversley and Chalvedon included. A postcode starting SS13 1 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No moving is needed, whether parked in the centre of Felmore or in a layby heading to Plumleys Park, so keep it where it is. Draining is done right there. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to St Peters or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Felmore and anywhere across Essex on 0333 366 0103.