AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lawnswood: What Now?
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether the motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Wherever your vehicle stands — Low Farm, Lawnswood — don't run a motor that hasn't run yet. Usually that means draining and thoroughly rinsing it on the spot around Lawnswood — and so keep the key and motor off and phone 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It is a bigger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Further down: the situations our technicians see, wherever around West Yorkshire. Choose the one that fits.
On a Lawnswood forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: standing by the pump, holding the bottle, you spot the filler you took off was not the correct one. It could be the Texaco, or the Esso, or another station around Lawnswood.
The point: of every spot to notice, this is the best. Just the tank has AdBlue; not one part beyond it has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us right there. Can't move the car by the pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt safe, and so it can be drained where it is.
At home in Lawnswood with AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the driveway. Homes just off Spennithorne Drive are caught out as often as everywhere else.
The point: no driving since leaves this nearly equal to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of that tank and stays put, however long it waits.
Keep the keys in the house tonight — or a person may drive it away at breakfast — and call us. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that is in Lawnswood or out in Ireland Wood. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Lawnswood?
Topped up, pulled away, and soon the motor was running roughly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Possibly it was on Lawnswood Gardens, maybe on the way out towards Leeds, under 5 miles away.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. Distance decides how far it gets: filter and lines to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, and switch your engine off. Service stations further on are too far: on the Inner Ring Road, under 5 miles out of Lawnswood, take the first junction. No trial restarts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us know the distance driven when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had this vehicle barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is just next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Wherever you happen to be in West Yorkshire, every motorist could slip up.
Meaning? Whatever case above counts here — run or unrun — and one extra stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Settling it before the van turn up is quicker, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park at Horsforth, or by University of Leeds Bodington Playing Fields, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Lawnswood
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think so. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; no clear memory of which cap. Sound familiar? It might have been at a friend's drive in Adel, or rushing outside Iveson Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Your move: behave as though it did, and don't start your engine. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats emptying one once it has been run — so phone and tell us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain around Lawnswood shares these steps
Every case gets the same opening to the work. Three things are asked when we reach the car — on a filling station, a driveway, a road by Sports Park Weetwood or the car park at Stable's Pub: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. On the phone, before dispatch, you hear our quote, and those replies decide the work too.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is crucial, since deposits form and certain metals corrode, and none of it rinses away unaided. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where your motor has not run, expect about half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Lastly, we fire it up. Our test that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. Permanent damage is very uncommon if it's spotted early, and the entire job is done where your car is. Payment 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 included in many policies.
About Lawnswood and where it is
Lawnswood is a suburban area in West Yorkshire, situated approximately 3.4 miles from Leeds city centre. Lawnswood sits at an elevation of 141 metres, surrounded by other local neighbourhoods such as Ireland Wood, West Park, and Weetwood. Lawnswood is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the typical residential development of the region. Lawnswood remains a relatively small but distinct community within the larger Leeds urban area.
AdBlue drains around Lawnswood, and across West Yorkshire too
Lawnswood is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, West Park and Weetwood among them, across the LS postcode area. Telling us a LS16 6 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is needed, whether parked in the centre of Lawnswood or in a lay-by heading to Pontefract Wood, and so keep it where it is. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets drained. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you're by Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church, on a border, or somewhere awkward to pin down.
Your situation, in one line
Unstarted? Keep the car off and ring. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Lawnswood and anywhere in West Yorkshire on 0333 366 0103.