AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Granby, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has run since it got in. Out in Langar or here in Granby, an unrun motor should stay that way. Usually this is emptying and thoroughly rinsing it right there around Granby — and so leave the ignition and motor off and call 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Nottinghamshire it happened.
At the pump around Granby: AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, nozzle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Perhaps you are at the Esso, maybe at the another forecourt nearby, perhaps somewhere else in Granby.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue stays only inside the tank.
Clearing the pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Get the staff to help rolling it into a space, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt sensible, so we can drain it in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Granby drive?
Days had gone by with the dash light on. Bought a container, poured it in outside the house, binned the empty — and only then checked the cap again, too late. It happens on drives just off Granby Hill as often as anywhere.
In short: if the vehicle hasn't moved since, it's almost equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of that tank and remains put, no matter how long the night.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — or someone may take it off at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it gets drained, whether around Granby or Sutton. Late-night clears beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
Granby: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A mile or two after filling up, the engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. Maybe driving for Nottingham, under 15 miles away, or just down Chapel Lane.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Next: find a sensible place, stop, and turn the motor off. Granby sits under 25 miles from the M1; there, pull off at the first junction instead of pushing on to the services. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Let us hear the mileage covered when you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have had this car barely a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is right by the diesel cap — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Nottinghamshire.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it has run. The owner frequently needs to approve any work, under plenty of rental and company contracts.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Keep the car switched off while the answer arrives, whether you're waiting at Aslockton or close to All Saints Church.
Granby: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Occasionally the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap came off, you cannot say; but the bottle feels less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Langar CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Whatton-in-the-Vale.
Meaning? Spills around the filler don't touch the engine at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave your engine off. Ring and give the details: we would sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your motor has been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Granby shares these steps
Each case has the same opening to the work. Three things come when our engineers reach your car — at a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside Granby Village Hall or the car park at Marquis of Granby: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. On the phone, before anything else, you hear the price, and those replies shape the work too.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why a full flush, after this drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Finally are the filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; fresh diesel; and a test of the car. Where your engine has not run, expect about half an hour on site, in most cases.
Firing it up comes at the end. Before our engineers head off, it's tested to be sure it runs correctly on clean diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and if it's spotted quickly, lasting damage is very rare. Paying comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Granby and where it is
Granby is a small village in Nottinghamshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 39 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Granby lies near the villages of Sutton, Barnstone, and Elton on the Hill, and is approximately 11.3 miles from Nottingham. Granby is part of the wider East Midlands region, with London being around 102.7 miles to the south. Granby has a population of around 507 people, making it a quiet and peaceful community.
AdBlue drains around Granby and across Nottinghamshire
As a village, Granby shares its vans with the nearby places — Elton on the Hill, Barnstone — right through NG postcodes. A postcode starting NG13 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is needed, be it parked centrally in Granby or in a layby en route to Whipling Covert, so keep it put. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets drained. Awkward to explain? Close to St Mary's Church or a border? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
The one-line version
Motor never started: phone, leaving it alone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Granby and anywhere around Nottinghamshire on 0333 366 0103.