Hockley: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the engine has been started afterwards. Wherever your vehicle stands — Benton Green, Hockley — don't run a motor that has not been started yet. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush after a drain, carried out just where the car sits in Hockley. Stop the moment it is safe and switch off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in West Midlands it happened.
At the pump in Hockley: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you're stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. Anywhere in Hockley, then — Texaco, Esso, or somewhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs clearing. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is possible when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Hockley drive?
Several days had passed with the dash light on. A bottle from the shop, tipped in on the drive — and it's only by the recycling that the cap got a second look. Houses just off Lyndhurst Croft are hit as often as everywhere else.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Your move: the keys in the house, so nobody takes the vehicle anywhere at breakfast. Then, ring. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that is in Hockley or out in Upper Eastern Green. Our equipment works quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Hockley: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was turning roughly, smoking, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Orchard Drive, perhaps, or the route towards Coventry — a trip of under 5 miles.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue through by now. Past the filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, then switch your motor off. Exit by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M6, under 5 miles from Hockley. It will not have cleared, and so there's no sense starting it again to check. Call us and say how far you drove.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It is a car you have had for a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the cap is right by the diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Across West Midlands, nobody is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one further step. The owner frequently has to approve any work, under plenty of rental and fleet contracts.
Settling it before we arrives is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded near Massey Ferguson Factory Memorial Plaque or at Tile Hill until someone replies, the car stays turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Hockley?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Lighter, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Sound familiar? The gates of Eastern Green Junior School in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive out in Tile Hill.
Put simply: a spill round your filler does your motor unharmed. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the vehicle will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Your move: behave as though it got in, and don't start your engine. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain in Hockley shares these stages
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things are asked once our technicians reach the car — on a filling station, a driveway, a road beside Eastern Green Village Hall or the car park at The Penny Farthing: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Answers shape the work; the price comes by phone whilst nobody has set off yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why a full flush, after the drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Then comes your filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Never started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Starting the car comes at the end. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running smoothly, and then we head off. If it's noticed soon, the car very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Paying comes on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Many policies include misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Hockley itself
Hockley is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Coventry, situated near the River Sowe in the West Midlands region of England. Hockley sits at an elevation of 122 metres, with nearby neighbourhoods including Upper Eastern Green, Flints Green, and Pickford Green. Hockley is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock and is home to a population of approximately 4673 residents. Hockley is also relatively close to London, at a distance of 88.7 miles, and is just 4.0 miles from Coventry city centre.
AdBlue drains in Hockley, and across West Midlands too
Hockley is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Flints Green and Pickford Green among them, across the CV postcode area. The location is quickest from a postcode that starts CV5 7.
Parked heading to Bannerbrook Park, or bang in the centre of Hockley, the vehicle remains put — there's no need to shift it anywhere. The drain happens right there. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're by St Andrews, near a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Your scenario, in one line
Where it hasn't started, ring then keep it that way. Run by now? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever it is, in Hockley and West Midlands, on 0333 366 0103.