What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Fox Royd
Everything turns on a single detail: whether your motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Out in Whitley Lower or here around Fox Royd, an unrun motor must stay unrun. Usually this is emptying and thoroughly flushing it on the spot around Fox Royd — so leave your key and engine off then ring 0333 366 0103. Where your engine has been run, stop safely first, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere across West Yorkshire it took place, one of the situations below fits yours.
Fox Royd forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only now, bottle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It might be the Shell, or perhaps the bp, or a different station in Fox Royd.
Put simply: no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, however much the pump wants freeing. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
Fox Royd, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. A bottle from the garage, tipped in on the drive — and it was just by the bin that the cap got a second look. Just off Briestfield Road is no different from any other place.
The point: zero driving since leaves it almost as good to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and stays put, no matter how long it waits.
Next: stop any early drive by putting your keys indoors, then phone us. Our technicians drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that is around Fox Royd or out in Thornhill Edge. Late-night drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
Fox Royd: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon the engine was turning roughly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Whitley Road, say, or the way to Wakefield — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: your fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. Mileage sets how deep it goes: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: find a sensible spot, stop, then turn the engine off. On the M1, under 5 miles from Fox Royd, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us hear the mileage covered when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the car hardly a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet was just beside your diesel. Any driver, anywhere in West Yorkshire, could do the same.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, only with one added stage. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Settling it before we arrives is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stranded by Overthorpe Park or at Ravensthorpe till the firm answers, your car remains turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Fox Royd?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think it did. A faint ammonia-like whiff hangs near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. Maybe at a friend's drive in Upper Denby, or in a rush by Overthorpe CofE Academy at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no damage to the motor. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: assume it went in, then keep the engine off. Ring and give the details: we'd rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than empty one after the motor has run.
Fox Royd: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. We come to the car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Black Horse or a side street close to Raza Education Centre, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your motor has run. Those answers decide this work, and you hear the quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed 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. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Where the motor has not run, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most cases.
The final step is firing it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it's running smoothly, and then we go. The entire job is done where your car is, and if it is noticed early, lasting damage is very unusual. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes built into plenty of policies.
About Fox Royd itself
Fox Royd is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated near the River Calder and close to the cities of Wakefield and Leeds. Fox Royd sits at an elevation of 114 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Fox Royd is located near several other small settlements, including Thornhill Edge, Briestfield, and Overthorpe, and is around 6 miles from Wakefield city centre.
AdBlue drains about Fox Royd and across West Yorkshire
Briestfield and Overthorpe have the same vans as Fox Royd, a residential suburb, plus further towns throughout WF postcodes. Giving us a WF12 0 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No moving is needed, whether stopped in the centre of Fox Royd or on a layby en route to Foxroyd Wood, so leave it where it is. We drain it where it sits. If you are somewhere hard to describe, close to Masjid E Noor or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Keep it off and ring. Run already: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Fox Royd or wherever across West Yorkshire.