AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Goodyers End? Keep It Switched Off
If AdBlue has gone into the diesel tank, keep your motor off and keep the ignition off. Water with urea mixed in it: that's AdBlue. The trouble starts once it's sucked through the lines — it will not ignite, and it will not combine with diesel. A drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Goodyers End, is usually what AdBlue in a diesel tank takes — if it is caught before the motor has run. Before you do anything else, phone 0333 366 0103.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Goodyers End: the first few minutes
To do:
- Keys out — then no one can switch anything on.
- If you're at all near moving traffic, put the hazard lights on.
- The empty bottle or the receipt shows us the fluid and the amount, so don't throw it away.
- The van finds you fastest with a postcode starting CV12 0, or simply the name of a street close by, so call from the car.
Never:
- Do not start your motor, even for a moment to move the car.
- Plenty of diesels power their pump the instant your ignition goes on, and so leave it off.
- Pouring in extra diesel does not help: AdBlue settles out rather than thinning.
- Do not drive the vehicle anywhere, not even a short distance along Goodyers End Lane.
- Draining that tank yourself by the road isn't one to try.
Get the people behind the counter to help you roll your vehicle away from the pumps if you're at a forecourt around Goodyers End, whether it's the the nearest petrol station or somewhere else. Stopped on your own drive? Then it stays just where it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
Meant for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in the engine. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into your exhaust gas to fresh it. Not one side fits the other: urea does not belong in an injection pump, and a pump cannot take urea.
Tipped in with the diesel, it keeps separate instead of mixing — entirely unlike fuel. It is heavier than diesel, so it sinks and collects at the bottom of that tank, which is where the pickup pulls fuel from. Easiest of all: a vehicle that had AdBlue in Keresley Newlands last night and hasn't turned since. The AdBlue waits at the foot of your tank, undrawn — though it will be the first thing through once your motor starts, ahead of any diesel at all.
From there it does two kinds of damage. Crystals and corrosion. As the water dries, it strands urea that crystallises in filter elements and narrow passages; and, since it eats at some metals, each part it touches keeps suffering for as long as it remains in there. By daybreak, a vehicle parked in Goodyers End with AdBlue in its lines grows worse; if it's just inside the tank, nothing changes. Then there's the water: it brings no lubrication to the components that need it the most — the high-pressure pump and each injector.
Why is AdBlue in a diesel commonly the bigger fault?
An issue of thin fuel is what you get after fuelling a diesel with petrol at the Texaco. Mixed through your diesel and sitting still, it's no threat at that stage; running the engine is the harm.
The trouble with AdBlue in a diesel is a totally wrong liquid. Since it does not burn, running it through is not an option. Whether your car is in Exhall or the heart of Goodyers End, firing it up "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than nearly any other mistake, and the flush matters for more. The reasons: it won't remain mixed, so diluting it is impossible; and crystals and corrosion outlast the next fill.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Clearing a tank is the simplest job on any fuel system, and with no start-up, the AdBlue remains in it — anywhere in Warwickshire the vehicle has stopped.
Goodyers End: how AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank
In dim light, two caps together — the AdBlue cap and the diesel cap, now and then behind a single flap — may appear the same. No one means it; many designs allow it. A container bought while heading home and poured in at home, instead of at the forecourt, is the typical story.
Usually, it takes place in one of a few familiar ways. The top-up is hurried outside Newdigate Primary and Nursery School, because your dash lit up with a warning while the kids were taken in. Close to M6, a driver tips a bottle in at home in the evening. Or the vehicle is topped up in the car park outside The Royal Oak, in poor light, by a person who has never opened that flap before.
It happens most in the vehicles people know least: a hire car, a new motor, a company car, or the second vehicle of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Keep it off: that is the first response to the same mistake, wherever in Goodyers End or the rest of Warwickshire you are.
Goodyers End: started the engine with AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. Via your filter, along the lines, and — with any running — into the injection pump and each injector: that is where it travels.
Lumpy running, smoke from the exhaust, lost power, dashboard warnings or stalling: any may show up, maybe midway across Goodyers End or returning from Newdigate Recreational ground. Pull over when safe. Switch off. Leave the vehicle off instead of testing it again. More of that is pulled through with each start.
Leave the M6, under a mile from Goodyers End, at the next junction and park somewhere safe, not driving on.
Hopping across Goodyers End to the car park by St Giles is one thing; driving for Coventry, under 5 miles away, is another, because each mile pushes the AdBlue deeper in. So distance counts. Tell us roughly how far it had come.
Once the motor has been run, the flush includes more, and all of it is done where the car has ended up. If it is caught quickly, lasting damage is very uncommon.
What clearing AdBlue from a diesel involves in Goodyers End
Anywhere it has stopped in Goodyers End — a forecourt, a lay-by, a driveway, a street by Umbrella Park — the van travels to your car. Three answers shape the work, and so first our engineers ask what was put in, roughly the amount, plus if the motor has turned over.
Next, draining the tank right there takes out the contaminated diesel along with the AdBlue together. What remains from AdBlue won't flush out by itself, so the whole system gets a full flush, which matters much more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in after your filter is flushed — or replaced, if it needs to be — and then the car is tested. If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once our engineers are there. Explosion-proof pumps mean a busy forecourt safe to work on, and they're quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
New diesel goes in to bleed the system, and that is the final step. Then we start it and you set off, whether from a parking space at Coventry Arena or a driveway in Goodyers End. It's tested on clean diesel to make sure it runs smoothly before we head off. The entire job is done where your car is, so it never needs to go to a garage. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report later, which is what insurers want.
About Goodyers End and where it is
Goodyers End is a suburban area situated on the River Sowe in Warwickshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Goodyers End lies close to the city of Coventry, approximately 4 miles from the city centre, and is near other residential areas such as Ash Green and Bedworth Heath. Goodyers End has a population of around 2301 people and is located at an elevation of 109 metres, near the West Midlands countryside. Goodyers End is also within commuting distance of London, being around 88 miles from the capital.
AdBlue drains across Goodyers End and Warwickshire
Ash Green, Bedworth Heath and Neals Green are among the places around Goodyers End that the same vans serve, along with most of Warwickshire further out, throughout the CV postcode area. Ring and check rather than guess if you're by a border, or anywhere tricky to explain.
Goodyers End is a residential suburb, and an on-site drain suits it: whether your car is on a home drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt, our technicians drain it where it sits, and so it never needs to be moved to us.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Goodyers End: the cost of fixing it
Each job differs, and so not one fixed price is honest. Three things change the price: whether the motor has been running and for how long, how much AdBlue got in, and where the car is. That last one comes down to whether a van can get to it safely, and an open drive is simpler than a tight space behind St Andrews' Church.
With that in mind, every enquiry from Goodyers End begins by asking the identical trio — what went in, how much, whether it ran — before any quote. Those answers turn a range into a straight quote.
You get that quote by phone, before anyone heads out, and you pay on the day, by card or over the phone, with nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
In Goodyers End and still alongside the car?
In that case, do nothing — that is the best move available. Keys out, motor off, ignition off. Phone 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, the amount, plus whether it ran are everything our engineers need. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest throughout Warwickshire, Goodyers End too.