What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Goddington
All of it hinges on a single detail: if your motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is around Goddington itself or out in Broom Hill. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush plus a drain, done right where your car stands in Goddington. When your engine has run, stop safely straight away, then turn the car off. It's a larger job, yet step one does not change.
Anywhere in Greater London it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Goddington forecourt
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the cap you opened was not the correct one. Possibly you're at the BP, maybe at the Texaco, maybe somewhere else around Goddington.
In short: there is no better place to be to discover it. Still in your tank, and nothing drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: do not get back in and start the car to clear the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed away is emptied right at the pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Goddington
On your dash, a warning had shown all week. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Drives close to Court Road see it as much as any other street.
Meaning? Provided the car hasn't moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. At the floor of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing changes no difference.
Your move: keys in the house, so no one drives the vehicle anywhere first thing. Then, ring. Ramsden or Goddington: wherever your driveway is, that's where it gets cleared. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Goddington?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Spur Road, say, or the way towards London — a run of under 15 miles.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next step — then switch it off. Exit by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M25, under 3 miles from Goddington. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Phone, and say what distance the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had this car hardly a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside your diesel. Anyone, wherever across Greater London, might make the same.
In short: an extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on if it's run. The owner often needs to sign off the work, under many hire and fleet agreements.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Hanging on for an answer in the car park outside Orpington, or near Bromley Indoor Bowls Centre? Leave the engine off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Goddington?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. Lighter, the bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Sound familiar? Maybe at a friend's driveway in Crofton, or rushing outside Orion Blenheim at the school run.
The upshot: your engine is not harmed by a little AdBlue splashed around the outside. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in the tank will be pulled in by turning on the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not fire it up. Inspecting a tank that proves clean is better than draining one once it's been run — so phone and tell us what you noticed.
Goddington: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Every situation has the same start to the job. Three questions come when our engineers reach your car — at a filling station, a drive, a road by Unity Church or the car park at The White Hart: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has run. Those answers decide the work, and you get our price by phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out unaided; that is why the flush, after the drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Last come your filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; fresh diesel; and a check of the car. Not started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Starting it comes last. Our check that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. The whole job is done where your car is, and if it's caught early, long-term damage is very unusual. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is included in plenty of policies.
About Goddington itself
Goddington is a suburban area in the London Borough of Bromley, situated approximately 13.9 miles from central London. Goddington lies near the North Downs, with Derry Downs and Ramsden to the south, and Orpington to the north. Goddington has a population of around 5933 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Goddington is characterised by its relatively low elevation of 81 metres above sea level.
AdBlue drains in Goddington, and across Greater London too
As a residential suburb, Goddington shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Derry Downs, Orpington — right through BR postcodes. Giving us your BR6 9 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Goddington Park or in a car park in the middle of Goddington, it doesn't need to shift. Wherever it stands, that's where it is cleared. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near All Saints Church, Orpington or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
Engine never started: phone, and leave it alone. Run already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, in Goddington and Greater London, on 0333 366 0103.