AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Glinton, and What to Do Next
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether the engine has been started afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Glinton itself or out in Northborough. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine both off. In Glinton, such a case is generally emptied and flushed on the spot. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Stage one remains the same, even if the job grows.
Wherever in Cambridgeshire it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the petrol pump around Glinton: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only spot it as you're standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Somewhere around Glinton, then — Esso, Tesco, or anywhere else nearby.
The point: of all places to notice, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no excuse to run it — so don't get back in. Three jobs: a push into a space with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is fine if it can't be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Glinton, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had gone by with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Just off High Street is no less likely from any other place.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Put the keys indoors tonight — otherwise a person might drive it off first thing — then call us. Your drive is where it is drained, whether around Glinton or Etton. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Glinton?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere on North Fen Road or on the road to Peterborough — under 10 miles away.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. Every restart, like each mile, carries it deeper.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so and switch off. Glinton lies under 10 miles from the Great North Road; on it, come off at the next junction instead of pushing on for the services. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone, saying how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the car hardly a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so nothing told you the AdBlue cap was right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Cambridgeshire.
The upshot: just as above, split by if it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we get there than after. Keep the car off while the reply comes, even if you are parked outside Peterborough or close to St. Benedict's Church.
Glinton: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think so. Which cap was taken off, you can't say; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia hangs by the filler. A hurried top-up by the gates of Peakirk-Cum-Glinton Cofe Primary Academy, or a call to a friend in Milking Nook: either fits.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no harm to your motor. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start the motor. Describe what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
The common ground in each Glinton AdBlue drain
The work opens the same way, whatever your situation. Three questions come when our engineers reach the car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street beside St Stephen or the car park at The Bluebell: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Your price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the job.
Then the tank is drained and your system flushed 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. Next is your filter — cleaned, or replaced when needed — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. Never started? Then roughly half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Last, we start the car. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running smoothly, and then we head off. The whole job is done where your car is, and if it's spotted soon, lasting damage is very uncommon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. It is worth remembering: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy as you wait pays.
About Glinton itself
Glinton is a small village in Cambridgeshire, situated near the city of Peterborough and surrounded by other villages such as Etton and Peakirk. Glinton sits in a low-lying area of the Fens, with an elevation of around 13 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Glinton is located approximately 5 miles from Peterborough and about 78 miles from London, making it a rural community with access to urban amenities.
AdBlue drains about Glinton and across Cambridgeshire
Throughout PE postcodes, the teams serving Glinton — a rural village — reach nearby towns as well, Peakirk and Werrington included. Quickest of all: a PE6 7 postcode for where you stand.
Parked heading to Fox Covert, or right in the heart of Glinton, your vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to shift it at all. Our engineers drain the car where it sits. Guessing doesn't help near St Pega, close to a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Leave the car that way then phone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Glinton and anywhere around Cambridgeshire on 0333 366 0103.