AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ibstock: What Now?
One fact matters above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has run since. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Ellistown, Ibstock — don't run a motor that hasn't run yet. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out right where the car stands around Ibstock. Where the engine has run, stop safely straight away, then switch the car off. A bigger job, yes, but the identical first move.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Leicestershire it happened.
On a Ibstock forecourt with 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. Possibly you're at the BP, possibly at the Morrisons Daily, maybe somewhere else around Ibstock.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Get the staff to lend a hand pushing it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Ibstock drive?
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used at the drive. It happens on driveways just off Orchard Street as often as anywhere.
Put simply: if your vehicle has not moved since, it is nearly as good as finding out at the forecourt. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles low in your tank and waits. One night standing alters none of that.
Keep your keys in the house tonight — or a person may take it away at breakfast — then call us. Out in Belchers Bar or right here around Ibstock, the drain happens at your driveway. Our pumping kit works quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Ibstock: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon your motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Grange Road, say, or the route to Leicester — a trip of under 15 miles.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More driving, more starts: further it travels.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, and turn the engine off. Leave at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M1, under 5 miles from Ibstock. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us know the distance covered when you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Leicestershire, nobody is safe from it.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or not — and one further step. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under many rental and company agreements.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Waiting for an answer at the car park outside Polesworth, or beside The Palace? Keep the engine off meanwhile.
Ibstock: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Maybe on a friend's driveway in Odstone, or in a rush by Ibstock Junior School on the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no damage to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. Firing up the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
Next: assume it went in, and keep your motor off. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at is a better outcome than an already-run one drained.
Every AdBlue drain in Ibstock shares these stages
Each case gets the same opening to the work. Three things are asked once we arrive — at a filling station, a drive, a road by Ibstock Baptist Chapel or the car park at Ram Inn: the fluid, the quantity, and if it has been started. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then is the filter — flushed, or swapped when necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Where your motor hasn't run, allow roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
Finally, our technicians fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running properly, and then we leave. When it is caught soon, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money upfront. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your documents as we travel pays.
About Ibstock and where it is
Ibstock is a town in north-west Leicestershire, situated approximately 11.7 miles north-west of Leicester. Ibstock sits at an elevation of around 135 metres, in a rural area surrounded by nearby places such as Belchers Bar, Heather, and Battram. Ibstock has a population of around 7338 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Ibstock is located inland, about 97.7 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains in Ibstock, and across Leicestershire too
Heather and Battram get the identical vans as Ibstock, a town, plus further towns over LE postcodes. Fastest of all: a LE67 6 postcode for where you stand.
Central Ibstock or a lay-by towards Leicester Road Play Park: wherever it is, your vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for us. Draining is done on the spot. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to IBSTOCK UNITED JUNIOR & YOUTH FC or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The one-line version
Motor not started: phone, leaving it alone. Started already? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, across Ibstock and Leicestershire, on 0333 366 0103.