Kirkliston: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your engine has run afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Kirkliston itself or out in Ingliston. Leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Kirkliston. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same opening move.
Further down: the cases we see, wherever across City of Edinburgh. Choose the one that fits.
At the pump around Kirkliston: AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Somewhere in Kirkliston, then — BP, another forecourt nearby, or anywhere else close by.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. Nothing has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits just inside your tank.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Kirkliston
For days the dash had been warning you. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it was just by the bin that the cap caught your eye. Driveways near Main Street get it as much as any other street.
The upshot: no driving since leaves it almost as good to finding it at the petrol pump. At the floor of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Put your keys indoors overnight — or someone might drive it away at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it gets drained, be it in Kirkliston or Almondhill. The pumping kit works quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Kirkliston?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a short way after the fill. Queensferry Road, say, or the route to Edinburgh — a trip of under 10 miles.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. It has been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. Every restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, and switch the motor off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M9, under a mile from Kirkliston. It won't have cleared, so there's no sense starting it again to find out. About how far had it gone? Tell us when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. Unknown to you, the two fillers are next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Any driver, wherever across City of Edinburgh, could make the same.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, only with one added stage. The owner often has to approve the work, under many hire and fleet agreements.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. If you are stranded in the car park outside Dalmeny, or by War Memorial, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Kirkliston: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
At times the fair answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia whiff lingers near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Dalmeny.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet don't touch the motor at all. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will suck it in.
Your move: act as if it got in, and don't start your engine. Ring with the details: we would rather confirm a clean tank than drain one once the engine has been run.
The common ground in every Kirkliston AdBlue drain
Whatever the situation, a single start is used. Wherever your vehicle stands — the pub in the village's car park, a road by Kirkliston Community Church, a driveway, a filling station — the van arrives and asks for the liquid, the amount, plus whether the engine has turned over. On the phone, before anything else, you hear the quote, and those answers decide the job too.
Then that tank is cleared 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 does not rinse out on its own. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Not started? In that case about half an hour on site is most jobs.
The final step is firing it up. Our engineers confirm it runs correctly on clean diesel before we go. We do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been noticed quickly. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we arrive: cover for misfuelling is included in many policies.
About Kirkliston, for a moment
Kirkliston is a village in the City of Edinburgh, situated near the coast at an elevation of 49 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Kirkliston lies approximately 8 miles to the west of Edinburgh, close to the nearby settlements of Almondhill and Newbridge. Kirkliston is part of the wider Edinburgh urban area, with the city's amenities and services within easy reach. Kirkliston has a population of around 2910 people, living in a mix of old and new housing stock.
AdBlue drains across City of Edinburgh, Kirkliston included
Being a coastal village, Kirkliston has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Ratho Station, Newbridge — right through EH postcodes. Fastest of all: a EH29 9 postcode for your location.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Kirkliston Community Garden or in a car park in the middle of Kirkliston, it does not need to shift. The van empties it in place. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Kirkliston Library or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In one line: your situation
Unstarted? Keep the car that way then ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Kirkliston and anywhere in City of Edinburgh on 0333 366 0103.