AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Leeming Bar, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on one detail: whether the motor has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is around Leeming Bar itself or out in Londonderry. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and motor both off. Across Leeming Bar, such a case is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one stays the same, even if the work grows.
Compare your case to one of the list below, anywhere in North Yorkshire you are.
At the pump around Leeming Bar: 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, right at the petrol pump. Perhaps you are at the Lynx Fuels, possibly at the another forecourt nearby, possibly somewhere else around Leeming Bar.
The upshot: of all places to find out, this is the best. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so do not get back in. Have the attendants to help rolling it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away gets cleared where it is at the petrol pump.
Leeming Bar, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Driveways close to Northallerton Road see it as much as any other street.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not been driven since, it is close to the pump case. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night parked alters nothing.
Next: prevent any early drive by putting the keys in the house, then ring us. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that is around Leeming Bar or out in Leeming. Night-time empties beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Leeming Bar?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way after the top-up. Leeming Lane, say, or the route towards Ripon — a run of under 15 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. It travels deeper with every extra mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so then switch off. Leeming Bar sits under a mile from the A1(M); there, pull off at the first junction rather than pushing on for the services. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, and say what distance your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It is a motor you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Across North Yorkshire, nobody is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Any work on the car often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stuck near Leeming Bar Railway Station or outside Northallerton till the firm answers, the car remains turned off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Leeming Bar?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A slight ammonia whiff lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. Maybe on a friend's drive in Bedale, or rushing outside Leeming St. John's Church of England Primary School on the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no damage to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different story. Any AdBlue in the tank will be sucked in by firing up the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Assume it got in, and never start the engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better result than a run one drained.
Leeming Bar: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens the same way, whatever the situation. Three questions come when we arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Wensleydale Railway or the car park outside The Willow Tree: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear our quote, and those answers shape the job too.
Then that tank is emptied and your system cleaned thoroughly, which matters 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. Fresh diesel is put in after the filter is flushed or replaced, and your car is finally checked. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit after the moment our technicians get there.
Starting the engine comes last. Our test that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before our engineers head off. Long-term damage is very rare when it is noticed soon, and the whole job is done where your car is. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Leeming Bar and where it is
Leeming Bar is a village situated on the banks of a river in North Yorkshire, with a relatively low elevation of 37 metres. Leeming Bar lies near the villages of Leeming, Aiskew, and Scruton, and is approximately 11.8 miles from the city of Ripon. Leeming Bar has a population of around 1063 people, who mostly reside in detached houses. Leeming Bar is located about 202.3 miles north of London, in a rural part of the county.
AdBlue drains round Leeming Bar and across North Yorkshire
Leeming Bar is a village, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Aiskew and Scruton among them, across the DL postcode area. A postcode starting DL7 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is needed, whether parked in the centre of Leeming Bar or on a lay-by en route to Gruntland Wood, and so leave it where it is. Where it sits, that's where it gets emptied. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you are by St John the Baptist Church, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, summed up
Where it hasn't run, phone then keep it off. Run already: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Leeming Bar or wherever in North Yorkshire.