AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Knighton: What Now?
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has run afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Knighton itself or out in Spriddlestone. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where your car stands around Knighton. When your engine has run, pull in safely first, then switch the vehicle off. A larger job, then, yet the same first step.
Match your case to one of the ones below, wherever around Devon you are.
Knighton forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just at this point, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Anywhere around Knighton, then — Asda, Valero, or anywhere else close by.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to start it only to move away from the pump. Have the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a space, save the bottle, then ring us right there. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Knighton, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been warning you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the drive. Homes just off Knighton Road are hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes it nearly equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in your tank and stays. A night parked changes none of that.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — or a person might take it off at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it gets drained, whether in Knighton or Wembury. Our pumping kit runs quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
On the road around Knighton with AdBlue in a diesel
A mile or two beyond filling up, the motor began playing up: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Traine Road, perhaps, or the way towards Plymouth — a run of under 5 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It has been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next step — then switch everything off. Services farther on can wait: on the M5, under 50 miles out of Knighton, use the next junction. It won't have cleared, and so there is no point starting it again to find out. Let us know the mileage driven when you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have just driven this vehicle for days. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap was just beside your diesel. Any driver, wherever around Devon, could do it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Any work on your car frequently requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or company terms.
Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park outside Plymouth, or by Wembury House, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Knighton?
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia smell lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's drive in Staddiscombe, or rushing outside Wembury Primary School at the school run.
In short: spillage round your filler leaves the engine unharmed. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on your car would pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it was put in, and don't start your engine. Ring us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Knighton shares these stages
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, driveway, The Odd Wheel's car park or a road by Thorn House — our van comes to your vehicle, and three answers come next: what liquid, which amount, and if it has run. Your price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the work.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it's crucial, because deposits form and certain metals are attacked, and neither washes away unaided. Clean diesel is put in once the filter is flushed or changed, and your car is then tested. Where your motor has not run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our check that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers go. We do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very uncommon when it has been spotted quickly. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Knighton
Knighton is a suburban area in Devon, situated on the coast near Plymouth, with a mix of detached housing and scenic views. Knighton sits at an elevation of 79 metres, overlooking the surrounding coastline and nearby beaches. Knighton is close to several nearby places, including Wembury and Hollacombe, and is within a short distance of Plymouth city centre. Knighton has a population of approximately 1166 residents, living in predominantly detached homes.
Knighton and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Knighton is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Hollacombe and Hollacombe Hill among them, across the PL postcode area. Telling us your PL9 0 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Wembury Manor kitchen garden or in a car park in the middle of Knighton, it doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits, that's where it gets cleared. Awkward to explain? By St Werburgh or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Your situation, summed up
Where it hasn't started, phone then keep it that way. Run by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, across Knighton and Devon, on 0333 366 0103.