AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Illogan Highway, and What to Do Next
All of that turns on one fact: if your engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Anywhere your car stands — Carn Brea Village, Illogan Highway — don't start an engine that has not been started yet. Call 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine still off. Across Illogan Highway, such a case is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere in Cornwall it happened, one of the situations below matches yours.
Illogan Highway forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Picture it: stood by the pump, gripping the bottle, you spot the filler you took off wasn't the right one. Perhaps you're at the Morrisons, possibly at the Texaco, perhaps somewhere else around Illogan Highway.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Still inside your tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the queue needs freeing. Phone us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a bay — the staff will help push it — and keep the bottle. Emptying it right at the pump is possible if it can't be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Illogan Highway drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Houses just off Agar Road get caught out as much as everywhere else.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops to the base inside the tank and waits. One night parked changes nothing.
Your move: the keys in the house, so nobody takes the vehicle off first thing. Then, ring. Out in Tolskithy or here in Illogan Highway, the draining is done on your drive. Late-night clears outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Illogan Highway?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way after the top-up. Anywhere along Wheal Fortune Lane or else heading to Truro — under 10 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
Next: pick a safe place, pull in, and turn your motor off. Illogan Highway sits over 50 miles from the M5; on it, come off at the first junction rather than pushing on for the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no point restarting to find out. Let us hear the distance driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Across Cornwall, nobody is safe from it.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on whether it's run. Plenty of rental and fleet agreements need the owner's approval for work.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Keep the car off while the reply arrives, whether you are waiting outside Redruth or near East Pool Mine.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Illogan Highway?
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of Treloweth Community Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in Tregajorran.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler never reach the engine at all. In your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. 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 went in, and leave the motor off. Phone with the details: we'd sooner find a clean tank than drain one after the motor has been run.
The common ground in each Illogan Highway AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Wherever your vehicle is — Plume of Feathers's car park, a street by Chimney, a driveway, a forecourt — our van arrives and asks about the liquid, the quantity, plus if the motor has been run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear our quote, and those answers decide the work too.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out unaided; that is why a full flush, after the drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Not started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
The last step is firing it up. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it's running correctly, and then we go. When it is spotted quickly, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth knowing: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents while we travel pays.
About Illogan Highway itself
Illogan Highway is a village in Cornwall, situated inland at an elevation of 114 metres, approximately 9 miles from the city of Truro. Illogan Highway has a population of around 2264 people, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type. Illogan Highway is located near other small settlements, including Tolskithy, Blowinghouse, and Pool, in the Cornish countryside. Illogan Highway is about 240 miles west of London, in the South West region of England.
AdBlue drains around Illogan Highway and across Cornwall
Blowinghouse and Pool have the same teams as Illogan Highway, a rural village, along with other places over TR postcodes. A postcode starting TR15 3 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Wheal Fortune, or bang in the heart of Illogan Highway, the vehicle stays where it is — there's no need to move it anywhere. Our van drains it in place. Tricky to pin down? By Michell's Engine House or a border? Checking is better than assuming, and so ring.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off and ring. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Cornwall and within Illogan Highway — once you stop, switch off then ring, if it has run.