AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Haden Cross: What Now?
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue got in? That single point decides nearly everything else from here. Not run so far? Then keep the car like that, whether your vehicle is — Haden Cross or Blackheath. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine still off. In Haden Cross, that is typically emptied and flushed on the spot. Already started? Pull over when you safely can, then switch everything off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Match what happened to one of the list below, wherever around West Midlands you happen to be.
At the petrol pump around Haden Cross: AdBlue in a diesel
You're 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. It might be the Sainsbury's, or the Esso, or a different station around Haden Cross.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. Still inside your tank, with nothing drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, even if the pump needs clearing. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. Stuck by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
Haden Cross, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Drives near High Haden Road see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of that tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Keep the keys in the house tonight — or a person may drive it off first thing — then call us. In Coombeswood or right here in Haden Cross, the draining happens on your driveway. Late-night drains beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
On the road in Haden Cross with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way after the top-up. Anywhere along Woburn Drive or heading towards Birmingham — under 10 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. It has been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. Each restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Your move: stop anywhere safe, then turn your engine off. Haden Cross sits under 3 miles from the M5; there, pull off at the first junction instead of pressing on for the services. No trial restarts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Ring us and say how far you went.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout West Midlands, no one is immune.
Meaning? Whatever applies above counts too — run or unrun — plus one further stage. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Waiting for an answer in the car park at Old Hill, or near Haden Hill House Museum? Leave the engine off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Haden Cross?
At times, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. Which cap came off, you cannot say; but the bottle feels less than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of Highfields Primary School in a hurry, say, or someone's drive out in Old Hill.
In short: spillage near your filler leaves the motor unharmed. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Assume it was put in, and don't start your key. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Haden Cross has in common
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Lighthouse or a side street near Haden Hill Leisure Centre, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if your motor has run. Those answers settle this work, and you get the quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Emptying your tank comes next, then a full flush — more important after urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear by themselves, no matter how long you wait. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Not started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Last, our technicians start the engine. We confirm it runs properly on clean diesel before we go. Our engineers do the entire job where the vehicle is, and permanent damage is very uncommon when it has been spotted soon. Payment is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Haden Cross
Haden Cross is a locality situated on the riverside in the West Midlands, with an elevation of around 160 metres. Haden Cross lies approximately 6.4 miles west of Birmingham and is surrounded by nearby places such as Coombeswood and Short Cross. Haden Cross has a population of around 2934 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Haden Cross is located about 105.4 miles northwest of London, in a region characterized by urban and industrial development.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Haden Cross included
Throughout B postcodes, the vans covering Haden Cross — a small village — work nearby towns too, Short Cross and Hill and Cakemore included. A postcode starting B64 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is needed, whether parked centrally in Haden Cross or on a lay-by en route to Black Country Millennium Forest, so keep it where it is. We drain the vehicle where it stands. Ring and ask rather than guess if you are by The site of Stewart and Lloyds 1903-67, on a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down.
Your scenario, in one line
Where it has not started, phone then keep it off. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever it is, across Haden Cross and West Midlands, on 0333 366 0103.