AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Highfields: What Now?
One thing matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has been started since. Anywhere your car stands — Scawthorpe, Highfields — don't start an engine that hasn't been started yet. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine both off. Across Highfields, that is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Pull over the minute it is safe then switch off, if it has been run. Stage one remains the same, even though the work grows.
Match what happened to one of the ones below, wherever around South Yorkshire you happen to be.
At the pump in Highfields: 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 JET, Esso or somewhere else in Highfields, the situation is identical.
The point: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. Still inside the tank, with nothing pulled through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Next: avoid the urge to start it only to free up the pump. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, save the bottle, then ring us from there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so we can drain the car in place.
At home in Highfields with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the warning light on. Picked up a bottle, poured it in at home, binned the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. It happens on driveways just off South Street as often as anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Being unable to mix, AdBlue settles low inside that tank and stays. A night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. Our technicians drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that is around Highfields or out in Woodlands East. The pumping kit works quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Highfields: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon the motor was running unevenly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Possibly it was on Market Street, maybe on the way out towards Doncaster, under 5 miles away.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. Through your filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in somewhere safe — that's the next step — then turn it off. Highfields sits under 3 miles from the A1(M); there, come off at the next junction instead of pressing on to the services. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You have had the car barely a week. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout South Yorkshire, no one is immune.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Many rental and fleet agreements need the owner's approval before work.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Leave the vehicle off as the answer arrives, even if you are waiting outside Adwick or near Adwick Leisure Centre.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Highfields?
At times the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Highfields Primary Academy, or on a friend's drive in Adwick le Street.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no damage to the motor. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Turning on the car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will draw it in.
Your move: behave as if it did, and don't start your motor. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clear tank checked is a better result than a run one emptied.
Highfields: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the work. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Highwayman or a side street near St Joseph & St Teresa's, Askern, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if your motor has run. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told the price, and those answers decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out unaided; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Finally come the fuel filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the car. Where your engine has not been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
We fire it up last. Our test that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before we go. We do the entire job where your car is, and lasting damage is very rare if it has been caught early. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Worth knowing: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy while we travel is worthwhile.
About Highfields, for a moment
Highfields is a suburban area located on the riverside in South Yorkshire, with an elevation of 36 metres. Highfields sits close to the city of Doncaster, approximately 3.2 miles away, and is near other residential areas such as Woodlands East and Sunnyfields. Highfields is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, typical of many suburban areas in the region. Highfields has a population of around 1522 residents, making it a small but distinct community within the wider Doncaster urban area.
Highfields and South Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout DN postcodes, the teams serving Highfields — a residential suburb — work surrounding places too, Sunnyfields and Woodlands among them. Your location is quickest from a postcode beginning DN6 7.
Stopped en route to Long Plantation, or right in the centre of Highfields, your vehicle stays where it is — there's no need to move it at all. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Assuming won't help beside All Saints, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Leave it that way and phone. Started already? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, across Highfields and South Yorkshire, on 0333 366 0103.