What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Goffs Oak
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the motor has run afterwards. Not run yet? Then leave the vehicle like that, wherever your car sits — Goffs Oak or Rosedale. Usually this means emptying and thoroughly rinsing it on the spot around Goffs Oak — and so keep the key and engine off then ring 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn it off. A larger job, yes, but the identical first step.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Hertfordshire it happened.
Goffs Oak forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you are standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. It might be the Elliott Motor Company, or perhaps the Shell, or a different forecourt in Goffs Oak.
In short: there is no better spot to be to discover it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — and so don't get back in. Get the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, save the receipt, then ring us from there. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home in Goffs Oak with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been warning you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used at the drive. Drives close to Goff's Lane get it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided the car has not been driven since, it is close to the pump case. On the floor of the tank is where AdBlue waits, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop any early-morning move by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, whether in Goffs Oak or Lucas End. Night-time clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road around Goffs Oak with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Cuffley Hill, say, or the way to St Albans — a trip of under 15 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. The injection pump and each injector see it too on a bigger run, once your filter and lines have it. More miles, more restarts: deeper it goes.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next job — then turn everything off. On the M25, under 3 miles from Goffs Oak, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, and say what distance the car was driven.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the car barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right by the diesel cap — a surprise to you. Anywhere you are across Hertfordshire, any motorist could slip up.
The point: just as above, divided by whether it ran, but with an added stage. Work on the vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at Cuffley, or near Goffs Oak War Memorial? Keep your car off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Goffs Oak
At times the fair answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Woodside Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Cuffley.
In short: spillage near the filler does your engine no harm. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on your car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Take it that it went in, and never start your key. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What each AdBlue drain in Goffs Oak has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three things are asked when our technicians reach the car — at a filling station, a drive, a road by Goffs Oak Methodist Church or the car park at Goff's Oak: the fluid, the quantity, and whether it has run. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told the quote, and those replies shape the work too.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long it sits. Clean diesel goes in once your filter has been flushed or replaced, and your car is then tested. Not started? In that case about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our technicians confirm it is running smoothly, and then we head off. If it is caught quickly, the vehicle very seldom has permanent 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 upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Goffs Oak itself
Goffs Oak is a village in Hertfordshire, situated near the River Lea, with an elevation of around 98 metres. Goffs Oak lies approximately 14 miles north of London and is close to the nearby cities of St Albans and the surrounding villages of Lucas End, Hammond Street, and Tolmers. Goffs Oak has a population of around 1744 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Goffs Oak is characterized by its riverside setting and relatively low elevation compared to the surrounding area.
AdBlue drains about Goffs Oak and across Hertfordshire
Over EN postcodes, the vans covering Goffs Oak — a village — work nearby places as well, Hammond Street and Tolmers among them. The whereabouts is clearest from a postcode that starts EN7 5.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Gladding Road Open Space or in a car park in the middle of Goffs Oak, it does not need to move. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to St James or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: phone, and leave it alone. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Goffs Oak and anywhere across Hertfordshire on 0333 366 0103.