Great Ellingham: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the motor has run since. Not run so far? Then keep it that way, whether your vehicle is — Great Ellingham or Fiddlers Green. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out just where the car stands around Great Ellingham. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening step.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere across Norfolk you happen to be.
At the petrol pump around Great Ellingham: AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Maybe you are at the Sainsbury's, possibly at the Esso, perhaps somewhere else in Great Ellingham.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt once the vehicle sits in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then keep the receipt. If it can't be moved, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
Great Ellingham, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Right off Long Street is not less likely from anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and stays there, however long it waits.
Next: prevent any early-morning drive by putting your keys in the house, then phone us. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that is around Great Ellingham or out in Bow Street. Night-time drains outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road around Great Ellingham with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe it was on Church Street, perhaps on the way out towards Norwich, under 25 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Distance decides how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and each injector. It goes deeper with every extra mile covered and each restart.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, and turn your engine off. On the M11, under 50 miles from Great Ellingham, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Let us hear the distance covered as you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have just had this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever in Norfolk, might do the same.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Any work on the car often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. If you are stuck in the car park outside Attleborough, or by Great Ellingham Methodist Church, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Great Ellingham?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think so. A slight ammonia-like whiff hangs near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is a blur. A hurried stop by the gates of Great Ellingham Primary School, or a call to a friend in Workhouse Common: either fit.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no harm to the engine. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be pulled in by starting your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Do this: act as though it got in, and don't start the motor. Ring with what you saw: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after your engine has been run.
What each AdBlue drain around Great Ellingham has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Our technicians come to the car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside The Crown or a side street near Saint James' Church, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and if the motor has run. Replies set the job; the price follows by phone while nobody has left yet.
Emptying that tank comes first, followed by a full flush — more important with urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Fresh diesel goes in once your filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then tested. If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Starting the engine comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it's running properly, and then we leave. We do the entire job where your car is, and long-term damage is very rare if it has been caught soon. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Great Ellingham and where it is
Great Ellingham is a rural village in Norfolk, situated inland at an elevation of 49 metres, approximately 15 miles southwest of Norwich. Great Ellingham has a population of around 1267 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Great Ellingham is close to nearby places such as Bow Street, Anchor Corner, and Stalland Common, and is about 84.9 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Great Ellingham and across Norfolk
Throughout NR postcodes, the teams covering Great Ellingham — a rural village — reach surrounding places as well, Anchor Corner and Stalland Common included. Quickest of all: a NR17 1 postcode for where you stand.
No moving is required, whether parked in the centre of Great Ellingham or on a layby heading to Rocklands Playing Field, and so leave it put. Our technicians drain it where it is. If you're somewhere hard to describe, near Great Ellingham Village Sign or close to a border, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The one-line version
Engine not started: phone, and leave it alone. Whichever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Norfolk and within Great Ellingham — once you pull over, turn off then phone, if it's run.