What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Four Lanes
Has your engine run since the AdBlue got in? This one question settles almost everything about what comes next. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is around Four Lanes itself or out in Treskillard. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, done just where the vehicle stands around Four Lanes. Pull over the moment you safely can and turn off, if it has been run. Stage one remains the same, even though the job is bigger.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Cornwall it happened.
Four Lanes forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You're at the 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 Opie Oils, perhaps at the Texaco, perhaps somewhere else in Four Lanes.
In short: there is no better spot to be to spot it. Only that tank has AdBlue; not one part beyond it has taken any in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no excuse to start it — so don't get back in. Phone us from the forecourt after the car is in a bay — the staff will help push it — then save the bottle. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away is emptied right at the pump.
Four Lanes, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had been lit all week. 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. Just off Loscombe Road is no less likely from anywhere.
The upshot: no driving since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and stays there, no matter how long it waits.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Pencoys or Four Lanes: whichever your drive sits, that's where it gets drained. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Four Lanes?
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. Maybe driving for Truro, under 10 miles away, or simply down B3297.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. It has been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the injectors. More miles, more restarts: further it travels.
Do this: pull up somewhere safe, then switch the engine off. Exit by the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, over 50 miles from Four Lanes. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Let us know the mileage covered as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've only had the vehicle for days. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit side by side here — unlike your own car, which has no AdBlue or keeps it in another spot. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Cornwall.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. The owner often needs to sign off the work, under many rental and company contracts.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because settling it early saves time. If you are stranded in the car park outside Redruth, or by Four Lanes & Pencows Institute, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Four Lanes?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". A faint ammonia-like smell lingers near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. The gates of Pencoys Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Piece.
The upshot: your engine is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed on the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Turning on the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Don't start the vehicle. Checking a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than draining one once it has been run — so phone and describe to us what you noticed.
Four Lanes: what every AdBlue drain has in common
No matter the situation, a single opening is used. Three things are asked once our technicians reach your car — at a filling station, a driveway, a road beside Pencoys Hall or the car park at Victoria Inn: the liquid, the quantity, and whether the motor has run. Those answers determine this work, and you get our quote on the phone, before anyone sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then comes your filter — flushed, or swapped where necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Lastly, we fire it up. Before our technicians go, it's checked to make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. If it is spotted early, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what your insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Four Lanes
Four Lanes is a small village in Cornwall, situated inland at an elevation of 219 metres, approximately 9 miles from the city of Truro. Four Lanes is characterised by its terraced housing and is surrounded by nearby places such as Pencoys, Carnkie, and Grillis. Four Lanes has a population of around 1164 residents and is located about 240 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains around Four Lanes, and across Cornwall too
Throughout TR postcodes, the teams serving Four Lanes — a rural village — work surrounding towns too, Carnkie and Grillis among them. The whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode beginning TR16 6.
Stopped en route to Wheal Basset Mine, or bang in the heart of Four Lanes, the vehicle remains put — there is no need to move it at all. Our engineers drain the car where it is. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Saint Andrew or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, in one line
Not run yet: keep the car off then ring. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, across Four Lanes and Cornwall, on 0333 366 0103.