AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Field Head: What Now?
One fact counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started afterwards. Out in Stanton under Bardon or right around Field Head, an unrun motor should remain unrun. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, done right where your vehicle stands in Field Head. Already started? Stop when safe, then turn everything off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Further down: the cases our engineers see, wherever in Leicestershire. Choose yours.
Field Head forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You're 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. Maybe you are at the BP, perhaps at the Esso, perhaps somewhere else around Field Head.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. No pump has drawn it in, so the AdBlue stays just inside that tank.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump wants freeing. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is fine when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Field Head
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle from the garage, tipped in at the drive — and it was only at the bin that the cap got a second look. It takes place on drives just off Charnwood Drive as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of that tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — otherwise someone may take it away at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it around Field Head or Markfield. Late-night empties beside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Field Head?
A short way beyond topping up, your motor started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Anywhere along Leicester Road or else heading towards Leicester — under 10 miles away.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a bigger trip, once your filter and pipework have it. It travels deeper with every extra mile covered and every restart.
Pull in somewhere safe — that's the next step — then turn it off. Field Head sits under 3 miles from the M1; on it, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on to the services. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue does. Let us hear the distance covered when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the car hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is right next to the diesel cap — a surprise to you. Wherever you happen to be around Leicestershire, any motorist could be caught.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, only with one added step. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Barrow Upon Soar, or by Markfield Community Centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Field Head?
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. A faint ammonia-like smell lingers near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Mercenfeld Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Groby.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to your motor. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another story. Turning on the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would pull it in.
Your move: act as though it did, and never start the motor. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank checked is a better result than an already-run one drained.
The common ground in every Field Head AdBlue drain
The job begins identically, whichever your situation. Three questions come once our technicians reach your car — at a filling station, a drive, a road beside The Markfield Mosque or the car park outside Coach and Horses: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. On the phone, before anything else, you hear the quote, and those answers shape the work too.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Never started? Then about half an hour on site is most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Before we leave, it is tested to make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. Our technicians do the entire job where the car is, and lasting damage is very rare when it has been caught early. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is included in plenty of policies.
About Field Head
Field Head is a suburban area in Leicestershire, situated approximately 6.4 miles northwest of Leicester. Field Head sits at an elevation of 177 metres, in a gently rolling landscape of inland East Midlands. Field Head is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, with nearby places including Markfield, Newtown Linford, and Bondman Hays. Field Head is home to a population of around 1779 residents, who are within easy reach of Leicester's amenities.
AdBlue drains in Field Head, and across Leicestershire too
As a residential suburb, Field Head shares its vans with the surrounding places — Bondman Hays, Newtown Linford — all the way across LE postcodes. Quickest of all: a LE67 9 postcode for where you stand.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Cover Cloud or in a car park in the middle of Field Head, it does not need to move. Our van drains it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Markfield Library or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The one-line version
Where it hasn't started, phone and leave it off. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Field Head and anywhere across Leicestershire on 0333 366 0103.