What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Kitts Green
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether your engine has run since it got in. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Kitts Green itself or out in Glebe Farm. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush plus a drain, done right where the car stands around Kitts Green. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then switch everything off. Step one remains the same, even though the job is bigger.
Compare what happened to a situation from the list below, wherever around West Midlands you are.
At the petrol pump around Kitts Green: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you are standing at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. Whether Texaco, Jet or anywhere else in Kitts Green, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. Still in that tank, with no fuel pulled through: that's where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after the car sits in a bay — the attendants will help push it — and save the bottle. Can't move the vehicle by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt sensible, and so we can drain it where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Kitts Green
Days had gone by with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Homes just off Cliffe Drive get caught out as much as everywhere else.
Put simply: if your car hasn't moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the pump. Being unable to mix, AdBlue drops low inside that tank and stays. One night parked changes none of that.
Put the keys indoors overnight — otherwise someone might drive it away at breakfast — then phone us. Lea Hall or Kitts Green: whichever your driveway is, that is where it is emptied. Late-night drains outside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road in Kitts Green with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way after the fill. Moodyscroft Road, say, or the route to Birmingham — a run of under 10 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Exit by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M6, under 3 miles from Kitts Green. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us hear the mileage driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have had this car hardly a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever across West Midlands, could do it.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it's run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Waiting for a reply in the car park outside Lea Hall, or beside The Pump? Keep the car off meanwhile.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Kitts Green?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think so. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; no clear memory of the cap. Sound familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Gossey Lane Academy, or on a friend's drive in Shard End.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no harm to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. Starting the vehicle will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will draw it in.
Assume it got in, and never turn your key. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats emptying one after it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
Kitts Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Three questions come once we reach your car — on a forecourt, a drive, a road beside Kitts Green Evangelical Church or the car park outside White Hart: the fluid, the quantity, and if it has been started. On the phone, before dispatch, you are told our price, and those answers shape the work too.
Then the tank is cleared 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Last are your filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of your car. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Starting it comes at the end. We make sure it runs correctly on clean diesel before leaving. If it's caught early, the car very rarely has long-term damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Kitts Green and where it is
Kitts Green is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Rea and close to the city of Birmingham. Kitts Green has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are predominant, and the area is located at an elevation of around 101 metres. Kitts Green is part of the larger Birmingham urban area, with nearby places including Lea Hall, Tile Cross, and Colehall. Kitts Green is approximately 97 miles northwest of London, making it a commuter hub for those working in the capital.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Kitts Green included
Tile Cross and Colehall get the identical teams as Kitts Green, a residential suburb, along with other towns over B postcodes. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning B33 9.
Parked en route to Kingfisher Local Nature Reserve, or bang in the centre of Kitts Green, the vehicle remains put — there is no need to move it anywhere. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your situation, summed up
Where it hasn't run, ring then leave it that way. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Kitts Green and anywhere across West Midlands on 0333 366 0103.