What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Joydens Wood
Everything hinges on a single detail: whether the motor has been run after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Anywhere your car is — Heath Side, Joydens Wood — never start a motor that has not run yet. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Joydens Wood, such a case is typically drained and flushed on the spot. Stop the moment you safely can and switch off, if it has been run. It's a bigger job, yet stage one does not change.
Further down: the cases we meet, anywhere around Kent. Pick yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Joydens Wood forecourt
Just at this point, nozzle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Whether Murco, Harvest Energy or anywhere else in Joydens Wood, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Still inside the tank, and nothing pulled through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the queue needs freeing. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking spot, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. Emptying it right at the pump is fine if it can't be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Joydens Wood with AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been warning you. A bottle from the shop, tipped in at the drive — and it was only by the recycling that the cap caught your eye. Houses just off Ferndell Avenue get caught out as much as anywhere else.
Put simply: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to finding out at the pump. At the bottom of your tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop an early move by putting your keys indoors, then phone us. Maypole or Joydens Wood: wherever your driveway sits, that's where it is drained. The equipment runs quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Joydens Wood: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon your motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere along Summerhouse Drive or heading towards London — under 15 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. Past the filter, through the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. Services farther along are too far: on the M25, under 3 miles out of Joydens Wood, use the next junction. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
Seven days ago, it was unknown to you. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits just next to your diesel. Wherever you happen to be around Kent, any driver can slip up.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on whether it's run. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under many hire and company contracts.
Settling it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Leave the vehicle off as the answer arrives, whether you're waiting at Bexley or close to Summerhouse Drive Library.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Joydens Wood?
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Sound familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Joydens Wood Junior School, or on a friend's drive in Stonehill Green.
In short: a spill round the filler does the motor no harm. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Firing up the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would draw it in.
Do this: act as though it got in, and never start the motor. Ring us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain in Joydens Wood has in common
The job opens the same way, whichever the case. Three things are asked when our technicians reach your car — on a filling station, a driveway, a road beside Roman Soldier or the car park outside Bexley Park Sports and Social Club: the liquid, the quantity, and if it has run. On the phone, before dispatch, you hear our quote, and those answers shape the work too.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced where needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Never started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Finally, we fire it up. Our test that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before our technicians head off. If it is noticed soon, the car very seldom has permanent damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. Paying comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Joydens Wood, briefly
Joydens Wood is a village in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of 58 metres, and is located approximately 13.9 miles from central London. Joydens Wood has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant, and the village is near other small settlements such as Maypole and Coldblow. Joydens Wood is part of the wider commuter belt around London, with the city's influence evident in its development. Joydens Wood remains a relatively small community with a population of around 3135 residents.
AdBlue drains across Kent, Joydens Wood included
Over DA postcodes, the vans serving Joydens Wood — a rural village — reach nearby places too, Coldblow and Hook Green among them. Telling us your DA5 2 postcode finds you fastest of all.
No moving is required, be it parked in the centre of Joydens Wood or in a layby heading to Garden Wood, so keep it put. Where it sits, that's where it gets emptied. Assuming doesn't help beside Saxon Soldier, close to a county line or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The one-line version
Where it has not run, phone then keep it that way. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Joydens Wood and anywhere in Kent on 0333 366 0103.