AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Foxlydiate: What Now?
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This single point decides nearly everything about what comes next. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle that way, whether the vehicle is — Foxlydiate or Southcrest. Leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Foxlydiate. Pull over the moment you safely can and switch off, if it has been run. It is a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Compare what happened to a situation from the list below, anywhere around Worcestershire you happen to be.
At the petrol pump in Foxlydiate: AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Perhaps you're at the BP, maybe at the another forecourt nearby, possibly somewhere else in Foxlydiate.
Put simply: there is no better place to be to discover it. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Get the attendants to help pushing it into a space, save the receipt, then ring us right there. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away gets emptied where it is at the pump.
Foxlydiate, at home: AdBlue in your 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 a second time at the cap. It happens on driveways just off Birchfield Road as commonly as anywhere.
In short: if the vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Being unable to blend, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and stays. A night standing changes none of that.
Your move: the keys in the house, and so nobody takes the vehicle off first thing. Then, phone. Webheath or Foxlydiate: wherever your drive sits, that is where it gets emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Foxlydiate?
Filled up, drove away, and soon your motor was running roughly, smoking, down on power, or lighting up the dash. Maybe driving for Birmingham, under 15 miles away, or simply down Bromsgrove Highway.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. More miles, more restarts: deeper it travels.
Next: find a sensible spot, pull in, then switch the motor off. On the M42, under 5 miles from Foxlydiate, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, and so there's no point starting it again to check. Call us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the vehicle hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is just next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Throughout Worcestershire, no one is immune.
The point: exactly as above, split by if it ran, only with an added step. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under many hire and company agreements.
Sorting it before we turn up is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded by St. Philip's or at Redditch until the firm answers, the vehicle stays turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Foxlydiate?
Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think it did. A slight ammonia whiff hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Tardebigge, or rushing outside Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School on the school run.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no harm to your motor. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
Take it that it went in, and never start the key. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats emptying one once it's been run — so phone and tell us what you noticed.
What every AdBlue drain around Foxlydiate has in common
No matter the situation, a single start applies. Anywhere the car stands — Rose and Crown's car park, a street beside St.Benedict's RC Church, a drive, a forecourt — our van arrives and we ask about the liquid, the quantity, plus if your motor has been run. Replies set the work; the price follows by phone while no one has set off yet.
Draining your tank comes first, followed by a full flush — more important with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, however long it sits. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. The majority of unstarted cars are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers get there.
Last, our technicians start the engine. Our check that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before our technicians go. If it is spotted early, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Many policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Foxlydiate and where it is
Foxlydiate is a locality in Worcestershire, situated inland at an elevation of 139 metres, approximately 12 miles northwest of Birmingham. Foxlydiate is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is located near other localities such as Webheath and Batchley. Foxlydiate has a population of around 795 residents, who are likely to commute to nearby cities for work and amenities.
AdBlue drains across Worcestershire, Foxlydiate included
Foxlydiate is a small village, and the same teams that cover it work the places near it too, Batchley and Banks Green among them, across the B postcode area. Your location is clearest from a postcode that starts B97 6.
Central Foxlydiate or a layby near Hawthorn: either way it sits, your car never needs to move at all for us. Where it stands, that is where it is emptied. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near St.Benedict's Social Club or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
Engine not started: ring, and leave it switched off. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Foxlydiate or wherever in Worcestershire.