What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Hadley Castle
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the motor has run since it got in. Wherever your vehicle is — Ketley, Hadley Castle — don't start an engine that hasn't been started yet. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where the vehicle stands in Hadley Castle. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Shropshire it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Hadley Castle forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you are standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Anywhere around Hadley Castle, then — Esso, another forecourt nearby, or anywhere else nearby.
The point: of all places to notice, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your car sits in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — and save the receipt. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
Hadley Castle, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in on the drive — and it was just by the bin that the cap got a second look. Just off Parkdale is not less likely from any other place.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of your tank and remains there, no matter how long it waits.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Our technicians drain it on your drive, whether that is around Hadley Castle or out in Hadley. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road around Hadley Castle with AdBlue in a diesel
A mile or two beyond filling up, your engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Maybe heading to Wolverhampton, under 25 miles away, or simply down Sankey Drive.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. Mileage decides how deep it goes: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Every restart, like each mile, carries it deeper.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, then switch your engine off. Leave at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M54, under 3 miles from Hadley Castle. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, saying what distance your vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had this vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Shropshire.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner often has to approve any work, under plenty of hire and company contracts.
Your move: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us next, since sorting it beforehand saves time. Leave it off while the answer comes, whether you're waiting outside Wellington (Shropshire) or near Hadley Community Centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Hadley Castle?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think it did. What cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Hadley Learning Community - Primary Phase in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in Hortonwood.
The point: your motor isn't hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the outside. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in your tank, starting the vehicle will draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: behave as if it did, and never start your engine. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats draining one once it has been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
The common ground in each Hadley Castle AdBlue drain
Whatever the situation, a single start applies. We come to the car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Kings Arms or a side street near Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if your engine has run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and those answers set the job.
Then your tank is drained and the system cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before we leave. Long-term damage is very rare when it is spotted quickly, and the entire job is done where your car is. Paying comes on the day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Hadley Castle itself
Hadley Castle is a locality situated on the riverside in Shropshire, with a relatively low elevation of 79 metres. Hadley Castle is located near the settlements of Hadley and Leegomery, and is close to Trench Lock. Hadley Castle has a population of around 1104 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Hadley Castle is approximately 17 miles from Wolverhampton and 129.9 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Hadley Castle, and across Shropshire too
Over TF postcodes, the vans serving Hadley Castle — a small village — reach nearby towns too, Trench Lock and Leegomery among them. Quickest of all: a TF1 6 postcode for where you stand.
No towing is needed, be it stopped in the centre of Hadley Castle or in a layby en route to Millstream Way Play Park, so keep it where it is. Where it sits, that is where it is drained. Guessing doesn't help near Hadley Methodist Church, on a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Keep the car off and ring. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, across Shropshire and within Hadley Castle — once you pull over, turn off and phone, if it's run.