AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Houghton on the Hill: What Now?
All of it turns on one detail: whether the motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Out in Kings Norton or right in Houghton on the Hill, an unrun engine should stay unrun. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where your vehicle sits in Houghton on the Hill. Already run? Pull over when safe, then switch everything off. It is a larger job, yet stage one does not change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Leicestershire it happened.
Houghton on the Hill forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you're stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. Perhaps you're at the BP, possibly at the Tesco, possibly somewhere else around Houghton on the Hill.
The point: of all places to find out, this is the best. No pump has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue stays just inside your tank.
Next: avoid the urge to start it just to move away from the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Draining it right at the pump is possible if it can't be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Houghton on the Hill, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used on the drive. It happens on drives just off Scotland Lane as regularly as anywhere.
The point: no driving since leaves it nearly equal to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and stays put, however long the night.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — otherwise someone may take it away first thing — and call us. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it around Houghton on the Hill or Old Ingarsby. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Houghton on the Hill?
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. It might have been heading for Leicester, under 10 miles away, or just along Weir Lane.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. More driving, more restarts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. On the M1, under 10 miles from Houghton on the Hill, that means the next exit, not the services further on. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Let us know the distance driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week back, the car was unknown to you. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is just by your diesel inlet — news to you. Any driver, wherever across Leicestershire, could make it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you're stranded in the car park outside Leicester, or by Houghton-on-the-Hill Methodist Church, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Houghton on the Hill
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can honestly say. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near the filler; no clear memory of the cap. Sound familiar? The gates of Houghton-on-the-Hill Church of England Primary School in a rush, say, or a friend's driveway out in Keyham.
The point: your motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed on the outside. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Next: assume it got in, and leave the motor off. Ring us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain around Houghton on the Hill shares these stages
The job begins the same way, whichever your situation. Anywhere your vehicle is — Rose & Crown's car park, a street by Houghton-on-the-Hill Village Hall, a driveway, a forecourt — the van arrives and asks for the fluid, the amount, and whether your engine has been run. Answers shape the work; the quote comes by phone whilst no one has left yet.
Then the tank is drained and the fuel 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, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel is put in once your filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then checked. Most unstarted cars are a half-hour job from the moment our engineers arrive.
Our engineers fire it up at the end. Before our technicians head off, it is checked to confirm it runs correctly on clean diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it is noticed soon, lasting damage is very uncommon. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About Houghton on the Hill
Houghton on the Hill is a village in Leicestershire, situated near the River Soar and close to the city of Leicester. Houghton on the Hill has a mix of old and new housing, with detached homes being the predominant type, and it sits at an elevation of around 169 metres. Houghton on the Hill is located near several other small villages, including Old Ingarsby, Bushby, and Gaulby, and is about 5.7 miles from Leicester. Houghton on the Hill has a population of approximately 1738 people.
AdBlue drains round Houghton on the Hill and across Leicestershire
Houghton on the Hill is a village, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Bushby and Gaulby among them, across the LE postcode area. A postcode starting LE7 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped en route to Norton Gorse, or right in the centre of Houghton on the Hill, your vehicle remains put — there's no need to shift it at all. The drain happens right there. Phone and ask rather than guess if you're by St Catharine's, on a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Motor never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, across Houghton on the Hill and Leicestershire, on 0333 366 0103.