Lingfield: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is around Lingfield itself or out in Newchapel. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. In Lingfield, that is generally drained and flushed on the spot. When the engine has been run, stop safely straight away, then turn the car off. Step one stays unchanged, even if the job grows.
Further down: the cases our technicians see, wherever across Surrey. Choose yours.
On a Lingfield forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you're standing at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Perhaps you're at the Shell, perhaps at the Esso, maybe somewhere else around Lingfield.
In short: no better place to be to discover it. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after the car sits in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and keep the receipt. Can't move the car beside the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt safe, so it can be drained in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Lingfield
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Homes just off High Street are hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes this almost as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and stays there, no matter how long the night.
Put the keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person might drive it off first thing — and call us. In Lingfield Common or here around Lingfield, the draining is done at your drive. Our equipment runs quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Lingfield?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Perhaps it was on Talbot Road, perhaps on the way out towards Westminster, under 25 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. It has been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up somewhere sensible, then switch your engine off. Service stations farther on can wait: on the M23, under 5 miles out of Lingfield, take the first junction. It won't have cleared, and so there is no point starting it again to check. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Surrey.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is faster. If you're stranded in the car park at the nearest station, or by The Cage, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Lingfield
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think it did. A faint ammonia whiff hangs near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. The gates of Lingfield Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's drive over in Dormans Park.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no harm to the motor. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: assume it went in, and leave the engine off. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than draining one after it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
What each AdBlue drain in Lingfield has in common
The job begins the same way, whichever your situation. Wherever the vehicle is — The Greyhound's car park, a street by St Bernard's Church, a driveway, a forecourt — our van arrives and we ask about the fluid, the quantity, and if your motor has been run. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and those replies set the job.
Then your tank is drained 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, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel is put in once your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is then checked. The majority of unstarted cars are a half-hour visit after the moment our technicians get there.
Last, our technicians fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it's running smoothly, and then we leave. If it's caught early, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is included in plenty of policies.
About Lingfield and where it is
Lingfield is a village in Surrey, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 72 metres. Lingfield lies approximately 23.5 miles south of London, near the borders with Kent. Lingfield has a mix of old and new housing, with detached homes being the predominant type, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Lingfield Common and Felcourt. Lingfield remains a small, rural community with a population of around 1844 residents.
AdBlue drains in Lingfield, and across Surrey too
Lingfield is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Felcourt and Dormansland among them, across the RH postcode area. Your whereabouts is quickest from a postcode beginning RH7 6.
No moving is required, be it stopped in the centre of Lingfield or in a layby en route to Talbot Road recreation ground, so keep it where it is. Our van drains it in place. Guessing won't help beside St Peter and St Paul, on a county line or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
Your situation, in one line
Where it has not run, ring and leave it off. Run by now: pull over, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Lingfield or wherever across Surrey.