AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Franklands Village: What Now?
Everything turns on a single detail: if your motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Over in Lindfield or right in Franklands Village, an unrun motor should remain unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and engine both off. Across Franklands Village, such a case is typically drained and flushed where it stands. Already started? Stop once you safely can, then switch it off. It's a larger job, yet stage one does not change.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, wherever around West Sussex. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Franklands Village forecourt
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the filler you opened was not the right one. Perhaps you're at the Shell, maybe at the Texaco, possibly somewhere else in Franklands Village.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. No pump has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays only inside that tank.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up just to free up the pump. Phone us from the forecourt once your vehicle is in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — then save the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the petrol pump.
Franklands Village, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Picked up a bottle, tipped it in outside the house, binned the empty — and at that point checked the cap again, after the fact. It happens on driveways just off Hoblands as frequently as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the base of your tank and stays put, no matter how long it waits.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Lyoth Common or Franklands Village: whichever your driveway sits, that's where it is drained. Our equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
Franklands Village: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way after the top-up. Somewhere along Silver Birches or else on the road to Brighton and Hove — under 15 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. It has been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that's the first job — then switch it off. On the M23, under 10 miles from Franklands Village, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No trial restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Phone us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have had this vehicle hardly a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right next to your diesel. Wherever you happen to be around West Sussex, every motorist could slip up.
The point: exactly as above, split by if it ran, only with an added stage. Work on the vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or fleet agreements.
Sorting it before we turn up is quicker, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Haywards Heath, or by Franklands Village Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Franklands Village?
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Northlands Wood Primary Academy, or on a friend's drive in Fox Hill.
In short: spillage round the filler leaves your engine no harm. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in the tank will be drawn in by firing up the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Assume it went in, and never turn your key. Checking a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than draining one after it's been run — so phone and tell us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain around Franklands Village has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things come once our engineers arrive — at a forecourt, a drive, a street by Hanbury Stadium or the car park outside The Snowdrop: the liquid, the amount, and if it has been started. Answers set the work; the quote follows on the call whilst nobody has set off yet.
A thorough flush comes after the drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it's essential, since deposits form and certain metals corrode, and none of it washes away unaided. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; fresh diesel; and a test of the vehicle. If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Last, our technicians start the car. We make sure it runs properly on fresh diesel before we go. We do the whole job where the car is, and permanent damage is very rare when it has been caught quickly. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Franklands Village
Franklands Village is a suburban area in West Sussex, situated inland at an elevation of 67 metres, approximately 12 miles north of Brighton and Hove. Franklands Village is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock and is located near Lyoth Common, Haywards Heath, and Walstead. Franklands Village has a population of around 6518 residents and is within commuting distance of London, being about 35 miles south of the capital.
AdBlue drains around Franklands Village, and across West Sussex too
Franklands Village is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Haywards Heath and Walstead among them, across the RH postcode area. Giving us a RH16 3 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Forest Fields or in a car park in the middle of Franklands Village, it does not need to move. Our van empties it in place. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Ruwach Christian Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your situation, summed up
Unstarted? Leave it that way then ring. Whichever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout West Sussex and within Franklands Village — after you pull over, turn off and ring, if it's run.