Greenlaw Mains: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the motor has run since. Not run so far? Then leave the car like that, wherever the vehicle is — Greenlaw Mains or Cuiken. Leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Greenlaw Mains. When the motor has been run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn it off. It's a bigger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Midlothian it happened.
At the petrol pump around Greenlaw Mains: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it while you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Be it Tesco, Asda or somewhere else around Greenlaw Mains, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it can be. Just that tank has AdBlue; not one part past it has drawn it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the queue wants clearing. Three jobs: a push into a space with the staff assisting, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Stuck by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt sensible, so it can be drained in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Greenlaw Mains
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used on the drive. It takes place on drives just off Foster Road as frequently as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Mauricewood or Greenlaw Mains: whichever your driveway sits, that's where it is cleared. Late-night clears beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Greenlaw Mains?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, smoking, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Mauricewood Road, perhaps, or the route towards Edinburgh — a run of under 10 miles.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue in. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and pipework to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. It goes deeper with each extra mile covered and every restart.
Next: find a safe place, stop, then switch your motor off. Services farther on can wait: on the M8, under 10 miles out of Greenlaw Mains, take the first junction. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us hear the mileage driven when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had this vehicle hardly a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet was just beside the diesel. Throughout Midlothian, no one is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies too — run or not — plus one extra stage. Work on the vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under rental or fleet terms.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our technicians arrive than after. Stranded by Mauricewood Colliery Disaster Memorial or outside Wester Hailes until the firm replies, the car remains switched off throughout.
Greenlaw Mains: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". Lighter, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; no clear memory of the cap. Sound familiar? A rushed top-up by the gates of the local primary school, or a visit to a friend in Eastfield: both fit.
The upshot: the motor is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed around the outside. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different story. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car would pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: act as though it got in, and leave the engine off. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats draining one once it has been run — so phone and describe to us what you saw.
Greenlaw Mains: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Wherever the car stands — The Cuiken Inn's car park, a street by Ladywood Leisure Centre, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks for the liquid, the quantity, and whether your engine has been run. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the work.
Emptying that tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't go by themselves, no matter how long it sits. Finally are your filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of your car. If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
We fire it up last. Our check that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before our engineers leave. Long-term damage is very rare if it is spotted quickly, and the whole job is done where the car is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Greenlaw Mains itself
Greenlaw Mains is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Midlothian, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a relatively small population. Greenlaw Mains sits near the southern edge of the Pentland Hills, at an elevation of around 199 metres, and is close to several nearby communities including Mauricewood and Beeslack. Greenlaw Mains is located near Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, which is about 7.8 miles away. Greenlaw Mains has a population of approximately 3984 residents.
Greenlaw Mains and Midlothian: AdBlue drains across the area
Greenlaw Mains is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Beeslack and Deanburn among them, across the EH postcode area. A postcode starting EH26 0 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Cuiken Glen, or right in the centre of Greenlaw Mains, the car stays where it is — there is no need to shift it at all. We drain it where it is. Guessing won't help near War Memorial Lodge, close to a county line or anywhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the car off and call. Started already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whatever it is, across Greenlaw Mains and Midlothian, on 0333 366 0103.