AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ferney Green, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has run since it went in. Wherever your vehicle is — Windermere, Ferney Green — don't start a motor that hasn't run yet. Leave your motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Ferney Green. Pull over the minute it is safe and switch off, if it has been run. Stage one stays the same, even if the job is bigger.
Anywhere around Cumbria it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
On a Ferney Green forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, nozzle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Whether Shell, Cosy Logs or anywhere else around Ferney Green, the situation is the same.
Put simply: no better place exists to discover it. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Have the staff to help rolling it to a space, hold on to the bottle, then phone us from there. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
At home around Ferney Green with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle from the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it's only by the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It happens on drives just off Post Knott as often as anywhere.
The point: no miles since makes it almost equal to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and remains there, however long the night.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or someone might drive it away at breakfast — and call us. Our technicians drain it on your drive, whether that is in Ferney Green or out in Bowness-on-Windermere. Our pumping kit runs quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
On the road around Ferney Green with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere along Brackenfield or else on the road towards Lancaster — under 25 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Distance decides how deep it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
Next: find a safe place, stop, then turn the motor off. Leave by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M6, under 15 miles from Ferney Green. No test starts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us hear the distance driven when you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap was right beside the diesel. Anyone, wherever in Cumbria, might make it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those turn on whether it has run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Keep the car off as the reply arrives, even if you're waiting outside Windermere or close to Parklands Country Club.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Ferney Green
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think it did. What cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by the filler. It might have been on a friend's driveway in Storrs, or in a rush by Goodly Dale Primary School at the school run.
The upshot: your motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed around the outside. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Any AdBlue in that tank would be drawn in by firing up the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Do this: behave as though it did, and don't start your engine. Ring with the details: we'd rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than empty one after the engine has run.
Ferney Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens identically, whichever your case. Three things come when our engineers arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street by Post Knott or the car park outside Romney's Snug: the liquid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Your price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the work.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a full flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a check of your car. Never started? In that case about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
We start the engine last. Our test that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers go. Lasting damage is very rare if it is caught early, and the whole job is done where the car is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Worth knowing: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as you wait is worthwhile.
About Ferney Green itself
Ferney Green is a lakeside locality in Cumbria, situated near the shores of Windermere, with Bowness-on-Windermere and Heathwaite nearby. Ferney Green has a population of around 632 people and is characterised by detached housing. Ferney Green sits at an elevation of 83 metres, in a scenic area of the North West region. Ferney Green is approximately 21.9 miles from Lancaster and 228.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Ferney Green, and across Cumbria too
Heathwaite and Droomer have the identical vans as Ferney Green, a small village, plus other places over LA postcodes. A postcode starting LA23 3 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped en route to The Belsfield, or right in the centre of Ferney Green, your vehicle stays where it is — there is no need to shift it at all. The van drains it in place. Guessing won't help near Windermere Lake Cruises, on a county line or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
Your situation, summed up
Where it hasn't run, phone then keep it that way. Run by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever case, in Ferney Green and Cumbria, on 0333 366 0103.