AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Flimby, and What to Do Next
Everything turns on a single detail: if your motor has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Over in Ewanrigg or right around Flimby, an unstarted engine should remain that way. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where your vehicle sits around Flimby. Already started? Stop once you safely can, then switch it off. A larger job, then, but the same opening move.
Further down: the cases our engineers meet, anywhere around Cumbria. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Flimby forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only spot it while you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Be it Shell, Esso or somewhere else in Flimby, the situation is the same.
The upshot: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. Only the tank has AdBlue; not one component past it has drawn any in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no excuse to start it — so don't get back in. Get the attendants to help pushing it into a bay, save the bottle, then ring us right there. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a live forecourt safe, so we can drain the vehicle in place.
At home around Flimby with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it's only at the recycling that the cap caught your eye. Driveways close to St Helens Avenue see it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided your vehicle has not been driven since, it is close to the pump case. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops low inside the tank and waits. One night parked changes nothing.
Next: prevent any early-morning drive by keeping the keys in the house, then phone us. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Flimby or Fothergill. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Flimby?
A mile or two after filling up, the motor started playing up: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Possibly it was on Westfield View, possibly on the way out towards Carlisle, under 50 miles away.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue in by now. Mileage decides how deep it goes: filter and lines to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that's the next job — then switch it off. On the M6, under 50 miles from Flimby, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us know the mileage covered as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've only driven the vehicle for days. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever across Cumbria, could do the same.
The point: just as above, split by if it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts require the owner's approval for work.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. If you are stranded in the car park at the nearest station, or by Flimby Church, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Flimby?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Glasson, or in a rush by Flimby Primary School on the school run.
Put simply: spillage near your filler leaves the motor no harm. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Any AdBlue in the tank would be sucked in by turning on the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it got in, then leave the engine off. Ring and give what you saw: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your engine has run.
What every AdBlue drain in Flimby has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the work. Anywhere the car stands — the pub in the village's car park, a street by Body Flex and Body Soul, a drive, a filling station — our van arrives and asks about the fluid, the amount, plus whether the engine has turned over. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear the price, and those answers shape the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why a full flush, after the drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a test of your car. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Starting the engine comes last. Before we leave, it's checked to confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel. When it's caught early, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. It is worth knowing: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as we travel pays.
About Flimby, for a moment
Flimby is a small coastal village in Cumbria, situated near the towns of Fothergill and Risehow, with High Seaton also in the vicinity. Flimby has a population of around 1462 people and is characterized by predominantly terraced housing. Flimby sits at a low elevation of 11 metres above sea level, close to the coast. Flimby is located approximately 27 miles from Carlisle and 261 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cumbria, Flimby included
Flimby is a coastal village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Risehow and High Seaton among them, across the CA postcode area. Giving us a CA15 8 postcode finds you quickest of all.
No towing is required, whether stopped in the centre of Flimby or in a lay-by heading to Buckbank Wood, so leave it put. Where it stands, that's where it gets cleared. If you are somewhere hard to describe, close to Roman Pavement or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Keep the car that way and ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, across Flimby and Cumbria, on 0333 366 0103.