Great Notley: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue was put in? That single point decides almost everything about what comes next. Anywhere your vehicle is — Milch Hill, Great Notley — don't run a motor that hasn't been started yet. Leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Great Notley. Already run? Stop once safe, then turn it off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical first step.
Anywhere across Essex it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
Great Notley forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, bottle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Somewhere around Great Notley, then — Shell, Tesco, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. Still inside the tank, and no fuel drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up just to move away from the pump. A few jobs: a push into a space with the staff assisting, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home around Great Notley with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. 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. Driveways near Cuckoo Way get it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: no miles since leaves this almost equal to finding it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Row Green or Great Notley: whichever your drive is, that is where it gets emptied. The pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Great Notley?
A mile or two beyond filling up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Bridge End Lane, perhaps, or the route to Chelmsford — a trip of under 10 miles.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue through by now. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and pipework have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a safe place, pull in, then turn your motor off. On the M11, under 15 miles from Great Notley, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Tell us know the distance driven as you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a car you have had for a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, its cap is right by your diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Wherever you happen to be around Essex, any motorist can be caught.
The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, only with an added stage. Plenty of rental and fleet agreements need the owner's sign-off before repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our technicians turn up than after. Stranded by The Church in Great Notley or at Braintree until someone replies, the car stays switched off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Great Notley?
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. A faint ammonia-like smell hangs near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Notley Green Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Youngs End.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't reach the engine at all. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the car would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: act as though it went in, then keep your engine off. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it's been run — so phone and tell us what you saw.
The common ground in every Great Notley AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to your car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside The Astronomer or a side street close to American Army War Memorial, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. Those answers determine the work, and you hear our price by phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that's why the flush, after the drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The last step is starting the engine. Before our technicians head off, it is checked to make sure it runs correctly on clean diesel. We do the whole job where your car is, and permanent damage is very uncommon when it has been caught soon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money in advance. Check your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Great Notley
Great Notley is a village in Essex, situated approximately 9 miles from Chelmsford and 37 miles from London, with a population of around 2447 people. Great Notley sits in a rural area at an elevation of 67 metres, surrounded by nearby places such as Row Green, Rayne, and Little Common. Great Notley has a predominance of detached housing, reflecting its character as a residential community. Great Notley remains a relatively small village in the inland countryside of Essex.
AdBlue drains across Essex, Great Notley included
Being a rural village, Great Notley has the same vans as the nearby places — Little Common, Rayne — all the way across CM postcodes. A postcode starting CM77 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Parked en route to White Court Wood, or right in the heart of Great Notley, your car remains where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Our van drains it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to describe, close to Bird of Freedom or close to a border, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Keep it off and ring. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Great Notley or wherever in Essex.