Griffins Hill: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue was put in? That one question settles nearly everything else from here. Not started yet? Then keep the car like that, wherever your vehicle is — Griffins Hill or Cotteridge. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. In Griffins Hill, that is typically emptied and cleaned on the spot. When your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe first, then turn the car off. It's a larger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around West Midlands it happened.
At the pump around Griffins Hill: AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Esso, Mary Vale Service Station or anywhere else in Griffins Hill, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it gets. Only that tank has AdBlue; no component past it has taken it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the queue needs freeing. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking spot, keep the receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
At home in Griffins Hill with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the dash, a warning had been lit for days. Picked up a bottle, poured it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. Homes just off Bournville Lane get caught out as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the car has not been driven since, it is second to the pump case. At the bottom of that tank is where AdBlue stays, since it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Put the keys in the house tonight — or a person may take it away at breakfast — then phone us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, whether around Griffins Hill or Selly Oak. Late-night drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road in Griffins Hill with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere on Bristol Road South or else heading to Birmingham — under 5 miles away.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. It travels further with each mile covered and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Griffins Hill lies under 3 miles from the Frankley Services Southbound; there, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on for the services. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Let us hear the distance driven as you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a car you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, the inlet is just by your diesel cap — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in West Midlands.
The upshot: exactly as above, split by if it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it beforehand cuts time. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at Selly Oak, or beside The Church of the Holy Prince Lazar? Keep the car off meanwhile.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Griffins Hill?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". A faint ammonia-like smell lingers near the filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is a blur. The gates of St Francis Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery in a hurry, say, or someone's driveway over in Weoley Castle.
The point: the motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the outside. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: act as though it went in, and keep the engine off. Tell us what you saw on the phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better outcome than a run one emptied.
Griffins Hill: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Wherever your car is — The Bear and Staff's car park, a road beside John Henry Barlow, a drive, a filling station — our van arrives and asks about the fluid, the amount, plus whether the motor has been run. Those replies settle the work, and you hear the quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
Then your tank is cleared and the system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally are your filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of the car. If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Lastly, our engineers fire it up. We make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel before we leave. When it is spotted early, the vehicle very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Griffins Hill and where it is
Griffins Hill is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Rea and close to the city of Birmingham. Griffins Hill has a relatively low elevation of 138 metres and is located approximately 4 miles from Birmingham city centre. Griffins Hill is characterised by a high proportion of flat dwellings and is near to other suburban areas such as Selly Oak and Bournville.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Griffins Hill included
Being a residential suburb, Griffins Hill shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Lodge Hill, Bournville — right through B postcodes. Telling us a B30 1 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Bournville Park or in a car park in the middle of Griffins Hill, it does not need to shift. Our van drains it where it stands. Guessing won't help beside Hay Green Methodist Church, close to a county line or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Griffins Hill and anywhere around West Midlands on 0333 366 0103.