Lazonby: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the motor has been started afterwards. Not started yet? Then keep it like that, wherever your vehicle is — Lazonby or High Bankhill. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush after a drain, carried out right where your vehicle sits in Lazonby. Stop the minute you safely can then switch off, if it has been run. It is a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Compare your case to one of the list below, anywhere in Cumbria you are.
On a Lazonby forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, bottle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. Be it the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else in Lazonby, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. No pump has drawn it in, so the AdBlue stays just in your tank.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Get the attendants to help pushing it to a bay, save the receipt, then phone us from there. Can't move the vehicle beside the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Lazonby
On the dash, a warning had been lit all week. Picked up a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and only then looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. Drives near B6412 get it as much as any other street.
The upshot: no miles since makes it almost as good to finding it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. Townfoot or Lazonby: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets drained. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Lazonby?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two after the top-up. Maybe it was on Seat Hill, maybe on the way out towards Carlisle, under 15 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and every injector. It travels further with each mile covered and every restart.
Stop safely — that's the next step — then turn everything off. Lazonby lies under 5 miles from the M6; there, come off at the next junction instead of pushing on for the services. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About what distance did it gone? Say so when you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is just by your diesel cap — news to you. Wherever you happen to be across Cumbria, any driver could be caught.
The upshot: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, only with one added stage. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under many rental and company agreements.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers turn up than after. Stuck by Saint Nicholas or outside Lazonby & Kirkoswald till the firm replies, your vehicle stays turned off throughout.
Lazonby: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest answer there is. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy recollection of which cap. Sound familiar? Maybe at a friend's drive in Glassonby, or in a rush by Lazonby C of E Primary School on the school run.
Put simply: spillage near your filler does your engine no harm. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will draw it in.
Assume it was put in, and don't start your engine. Ring and give what you saw: we would sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one once the motor has run.
What each AdBlue drain around Lazonby has in common
The job begins identically, whatever the situation. Wherever the vehicle stands — the pub in the village's car park, a road beside Lazonby Methodist Church, a driveway, a filling station — our van gets there and we ask about the fluid, the quantity, and if your engine has turned over. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the answers shape the job.
Draining the tank comes first, then a full flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Then is the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced where necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your car. Where your engine has not run, allow about half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
Lastly, we fire it up. Our test that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before our engineers go. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and if it's spotted early, permanent damage is very uncommon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents while you wait is worthwhile.
About Lazonby itself
Lazonby is a village situated on the banks of the River Eden in Cumbria, with a mix of detached housing and other types of accommodation. Lazonby sits at an elevation of 93 metres, approximately 13 miles south of Carlisle, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Townfoot and Kirkoswald. Lazonby has a population of around 946 people and is located near the North Dykes area. Lazonby is also relatively distant from London, at around 248 miles away.
Lazonby and Cumbria: AdBlue drains across the area
Lazonby is a village, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Kirkoswald and North Dykes among them, across the CA postcode area. Fastest of all: a CA10 1 postcode for where you stand.
No moving is required, be it stopped in the centre of Lazonby or in a lay-by heading to Tank Wood, and so keep it put. Our engineers drain it where it is. Phone and check rather than guess if you're close to Lazonby Bowling Club, on a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
The one-line version
Engine never started: phone, and leave it switched off. Whichever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Cumbria and in Lazonby — once you pull over, switch off and phone, if it has run.