AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Fullers End: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the engine has run since it went in. Not started so far? Then keep it like that, whether the car sits — Fullers End or Elsenham Sta. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out just where your vehicle stands in Fullers End. Where your engine has been run, pull in somewhere safe first, then turn the car off. A bigger job, yes, yet the identical opening step.
Further down: the situations our engineers meet, anywhere around Essex. Pick the one that fits.
Fullers End forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. It might be the JET, or the Esso, or a different forecourt in Fullers End.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Nothing has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue stays only in your tank.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your car sits in a bay — the staff will help roll it — and save the bottle. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt safe, and so we can drain it where it is.
Fullers End, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had passed with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the drive. Houses just off Tye Green Road get caught out as often as anywhere else.
In short: if your car has not been driven since, it is nearly as good as spotting it at the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. In Elsenham or here in Fullers End, the draining is done on your drive. The equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Fullers End?
A mile or two after topping up, your engine began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. The Glebe, perhaps, or the route towards Chelmsford — a trip of under 25 miles.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue up. Mileage decides how far it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Do this: pull up anywhere safe, then turn the engine off. Leave at the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M11, under a mile from Fullers End. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Call, saying what distance the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a motor you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are in Essex, every motorist can slip up.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one extra stage. The owner frequently has to sign off the work, under plenty of rental and fleet agreements.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Elsenham, or by St Mary the Virgin, Elsenham, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Fullers End?
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's drive in Old Mead, or rushing by Elsenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't touch the motor at all. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting your car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: assume it went in, and keep your engine off. Ring with the details: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your engine has been run.
Every AdBlue drain in Fullers End shares these steps
Each case has the same opening to the job. Three questions are asked once we arrive — on a filling station, a driveway, a street beside Saint Mary the Virgin Church or the car park at The Crown: the liquid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Your price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies set the job.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next is the filter — flushed, or swapped when necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of your car. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment we get there.
The final step is firing it up. Our check that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before our technicians go. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's spotted quickly, lasting damage is very rare. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Fullers End
Fullers End is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Essex, with a relatively low elevation of 93 metres. Fullers End lies near the villages of Elsenham and Tye Green, and is close to the larger settlement of Gaunts End. Fullers End is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, and its rural location is approximately 15.7 miles from Chelmsford and 31.7 miles from London.
Fullers End and Essex: AdBlue drains across the area
Tye Green and Gaunts End get the identical vans as Fullers End, a rural hamlet, plus further places over CM postcodes. Quickest of all: a CM22 6 postcode to show where you stand.
No towing is needed, be it parked in the centre of Fullers End or on a layby heading to Long Plantation, and so leave it put. Our technicians drain the car where it sits. Awkward to explain? By Stansted Mountfitchet Castle or a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so ring.
Your scenario, in one line
Motor never started: phone, leaving it alone. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Fullers End or wherever across Essex.