What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Kirkcaldy
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the engine has been run since it was put in. Not run yet? Then keep the car like that, whether the vehicle sits — Kirkcaldy or Hayfield. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. Across Kirkcaldy, such a case is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. Pull over the minute you safely can and turn off, if it has already run. Stage one remains unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Further down: the situations we meet, anywhere around Fife. Pick the one that fits.
At the pump in Kirkcaldy: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you're standing at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Be it Esso, Morrisons or anywhere else around Kirkcaldy, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Still in the tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up just to move away from the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the pump is possible when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Kirkcaldy
Days had gone by with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the drive. Homes just off East Fergus Place get caught out as much as everywhere else.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of that tank and remains there, however long it waits.
Next: stop an early-morning move by keeping the keys in the house, then ring us. Port Brae or Kirkcaldy: wherever your drive is, that is where it gets cleared. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Kirkcaldy with AdBlue in a diesel
A short way beyond filling up, the motor began playing up: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Maybe heading to Edinburgh, under 15 miles away, or just down South Fergus Place.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. Distance decides how far it goes: filter and pipework to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next job — then switch everything off. Exit by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M90, under 10 miles from Kirkcaldy. No test restarts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Call us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits right beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Fife.
In short: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since sorting it beforehand cuts time. Stranded by Ingolstat model by Jakob Sandtner or at the nearest station until the firm replies, the car stays switched off throughout.
Kirkcaldy: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. A hurried top-up by the gates of the local primary school, or a call to a friend in Smeaton: either fits.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. Any AdBlue in your tank would be pulled in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Your move: behave as though it did, and don't start your motor. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain around Kirkcaldy shares these steps
Each situation gets the same start to the work. Three questions come when we reach the car — at a forecourt, a driveway, a road beside Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court or the car park at Montagues: the fluid, the amount, and if it has been started. On the phone, before dispatch, you are told the price, and those replies shape the job too.
Then the tank is emptied and your system flushed 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel goes in once your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally tested. Not started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
The final step is firing it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while we check it is running smoothly, and then we head off. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's caught quickly, lasting damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy is a coastal town in Fife, situated on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, with a mix of flat and other types of housing. Kirkcaldy sits at a relatively low elevation of around 24 metres, looking out across the water to the Lothian coastline. Kirkcaldy is close to several nearby places, including Port Brae, Linktown, and Pathhead, and is located near the city of Edinburgh, which is about 10.8 miles away. Kirkcaldy has a population of approximately 13,513 people, with many residing in flats.
AdBlue drains about Kirkcaldy and across Fife
Kirkcaldy is a coastal town, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Linktown and Pathhead among them, across the KY postcode area. Giving us a KY1 1 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Kirkcaldy War Memorial Gardens or in a car park in the middle of Kirkcaldy, it doesn't need to shift. The van empties it in place. Tricky to explain? By Kirkcaldy Farmers Market or a border? Asking beats guessing, and so phone.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then call. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Kirkcaldy and anywhere in Fife on 0333 366 0103.