AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Kelly Bray, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your motor has been run since it was put in. Not run so far? Then keep the car like that, wherever the car is — Kelly Bray or Callington. Usually that is draining and properly purging it right there in Kelly Bray — and so leave the key and motor off and phone 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has been run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then switch it off. It is a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Anywhere across Cornwall it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
At the petrol pump around Kelly Bray: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it while you're stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Anywhere around Kelly Bray, then — Tesco, Gulf, or anywhere else close by.
In short: there is no better spot to be to discover it. No pump has drawn it in, and so the AdBlue sits just in the tank.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Have the attendants to help rolling it into a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us from there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt safe, so we can drain the car in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Kelly Bray
Days had passed with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Drives near Redmoor Road get it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the floor of that tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing changes no difference.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — or a person may take it away first thing — then phone us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, whether around Kelly Bray or Holmbush. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Kelly Bray?
Topped up, drove away, and before long your engine was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Somewhere along Harris Close or on the road to Plymouth — under 15 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. It's been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, and switch the motor off. Kelly Bray sits under 50 miles from the M5; on it, come off at the next junction rather than pressing on to the services. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Call us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've only driven this car a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap was just beside your diesel. Wherever you are across Cornwall, any driver could be caught.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies here — run or not — plus one extra step. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under plenty of hire and fleet agreements.
Settling it before we turn up is faster, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck near Hut Circle or outside Gunnislake till someone answers, the car remains switched off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Kelly Bray?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle weighs less than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by the filler. A rushed top-up by the gates of Callington Primary School, or a visit to a friend in Clitters: both fit.
The upshot: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different story. Firing up the vehicle won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would pull it in.
Do this: behave as if it did, and never start the motor. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank checked counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one drained.
The common ground in each Kelly Bray AdBlue drain
The job begins the same way, whatever the case. Three things are asked when our engineers reach your car — on a filling station, a drive, a road beside East Holmbush Mine or the car park at The Swingletree: the fluid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been started. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the replies set the job.
Then your tank is cleared and the system rinsed thoroughly, which matters 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. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or swapped where necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before we head off. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it's noticed soon, long-term damage is very unusual. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Many policies cover misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Kelly Bray and where it is
Kelly Bray is a village in inland Cornwall, situated at an elevation of 192 metres, and is located near the villages of Holmbush and Downgate. Kelly Bray has a population of around 1137 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Kelly Bray is approximately 12.8 miles from Plymouth and 194.4 miles from London, making it a rural community in the South West of England. Kelly Bray sits in a region known for its natural beauty and rich history.
AdBlue drains in Kelly Bray, and across Cornwall too
Maders and Downgate get the same vans as Kelly Bray, a rural village, plus other places over PL postcodes. A postcode starting PL17 8 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Kelly Bray or a lay-by towards Swingletree Beer Garden: either way it is, the car never needs to move at all for us. Our technicians drain it where it stands. Assuming doesn't help near South Kithill Mine, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
Motor never started: ring, leaving it switched off. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever it is, in Kelly Bray and Cornwall, on 0333 366 0103.