AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lamellion: What Now?
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started yet? Then leave the vehicle that way, whether the car is — Lamellion or Boduel. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. In Lamellion, that is generally drained and flushed where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Stage one stays the same, even though the job is bigger.
Wherever across Cornwall it happened, one of the situations below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Lamellion forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Somewhere around Lamellion, then — Morrisons, BP, or anywhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it gets. No pump has pulled it in, so the AdBlue sits just in the tank.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs clearing. Three jobs: a shove into a space with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from where you stand. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Lamellion
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. A bottle from the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it's just at the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It happens on driveways just off B3254 as frequently as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles low in the tank and waits. A night parked alters nothing.
Your move: keys indoors, and so no one takes your vehicle off first thing. Then, phone. Moorswater or Lamellion: wherever your drive sits, that is where it gets emptied. Night-time empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Lamellion?
A mile or two after topping up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. Tollgate Close, say, or the route to Plymouth — a run of under 25 miles.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. Past the filter, through the pipework, and — the further the distance — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. It travels further with each mile driven and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Service stations further on are too far: from the M5, under 50 miles out of Lamellion, take the next junction. No test restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Tell us hear the distance driven when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap sits just beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Cornwall.
Meaning? Whatever case above applies too — run or unrun — and one extra step. Work on your vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet agreements.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians turn up than after. Hanging on for a reply at the car park at Liskeard, or near Kingdom Hall? Leave your engine off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Lamellion?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. What cap came off, you can't recall; but the bottle weighs less than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Addington, or rushing outside Liskeard Hillfort Primary School on the school run.
Put simply: a spill near the filler does your engine no harm. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Any AdBlue in that tank would be drawn in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Your move: behave as if it got in, and don't start the engine. Tell us what you saw on the phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one drained.
Each AdBlue drain around Lamellion shares these steps
Each situation has the same start to the work. Forecourt, drive, The Albion's car park or a road beside Brunel original viaduct supports — the van comes to your car, and three answers follow: which fluid, which amount, and if it ran. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and the answers shape the work.
Then that tank is emptied and the 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. Clean diesel is put in once your filter is cleaned or replaced, and your car is then tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment our engineers get there.
We start the car at the end. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it's running correctly, and then we leave. When it's spotted quickly, the vehicle very seldom has permanent damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Lamellion and where it is
Lamellion is a small locality in Cornwall, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 102 metres. Lamellion lies near the towns of Liskeard and Looe Mills, and is close to Moorswater. Lamellion has a population of around 681 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Lamellion is located approximately 15.5 miles from Plymouth and 202.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cornwall, Lamellion included
Over PL postcodes, the vans covering Lamellion — a small village — reach nearby places as well, Liskeard and Looe Mills included. Telling us your PL14 4 postcode finds you fastest of all.
No towing is needed, be it stopped centrally in Lamellion or in a layby heading to Brake Wood, and so keep it where it is. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. Awkward to explain? By Liskerrett Community Centre or a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
The one-line version
If it has not run, phone then leave it that way. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Lamellion and anywhere around Cornwall on 0333 366 0103.