AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Kirton: What Now?
Everything turns on one detail: whether your engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Not run yet? Then leave it that way, whether your car is — Kirton or Kirton End. Normally this means emptying and properly cleaning it on the spot in Kirton — so leave your key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Step one remains the same, even if the work grows.
Compare your case to a situation from the list below, anywhere in Lincolnshire you happen to be.
On a Kirton forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you are standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. It could be the EG On the Move, or perhaps the BP, or a different station in Kirton.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Have the staff to help pushing it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Draining it there at the pump is possible if it can't be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Kirton with AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it was only by the bin that the cap caught a second look. Drives close to High Street see it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the vehicle has not been driven since, it's close to the pump case. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing changes none of that.
Next: stop an early move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. Your drive is where it is emptied, whether around Kirton or Struggs Hill. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Kirton?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your engine began playing up: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Anywhere along Boston Road or heading to Peterborough — under 50 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
Do this: pull up anywhere sensible, then switch the engine off. Kirton lies under 50 miles from the A1(M); on it, pull off at the next junction instead of pressing on for the services. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Phone, and say how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've just driven the vehicle a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so nothing told you the AdBlue cap sits just next to the diesel. Throughout Lincolnshire, nobody is immune.
Meaning? Whatever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one extra stage. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, because settling it early cuts time. Keep it switched off as the answer comes, even if you're waiting outside Boston or near Kirton Youth Centre.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Kirton?
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of Kirton Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's driveway over in Seadyke.
The point: the engine is not hurt by some AdBlue spilled on the outside. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, turning on the vehicle would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it was put in, and never start the key. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Kirton: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job begins the same way, whatever the case. Anywhere your car stands — The Black Bull's car park, a road beside William Dennis, a drive, a filling station — the van gets there and asks about the liquid, the quantity, plus whether your motor has been run. Those replies determine this work, and you hear the quote on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then the tank is emptied and the system cleaned 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. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of the car. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment our engineers turn up.
Lastly, our engineers start the engine. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before we leave. We do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual when it has been spotted soon. Paying is on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Kirton itself
Kirton is a village in Lincolnshire, situated in the East Midlands region of England, with a population of around 3014 people. Kirton lies approximately 7 metres above sea level, near the villages of Frampton and Frampton West End. Kirton is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is located about 25.8 miles from Peterborough. Kirton sits in a relatively flat area, close to Struggs Hill.
AdBlue drains in Kirton, and across Lincolnshire too
As a rural village, Kirton shares its vans with the surrounding places — Frampton West End, Frampton — all the way through PE postcodes. Fastest of all: a PE20 1 postcode for where you stand.
No moving is needed, whether parked in the centre of Kirton or on a lay-by en route to Graves Park, and so keep it put. We drain it where it is. Assuming won't help beside Kirton Town Hall, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Your situation, summed up
If it hasn't run, ring and keep it that way. Run already: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Kirton or wherever in Lincolnshire.