What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Little Kingshill
All of that turns on one detail: if the engine has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Not run yet? Then keep the car like that, whether the car is — Little Kingshill or Great Kingshill. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. In Little Kingshill, that is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. Where your motor has been run, stop safely first, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Match what happened to one of the ones below, anywhere across Buckinghamshire you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Little Kingshill forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. It could be the the nearest petrol station, or perhaps the Harvest Energy, or a different station in Little Kingshill.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it can be. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle is in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — and save the receipt. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Little Kingshill, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Homes just off Windsor Lane are hit as much as everywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes this nearly as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of that tank and stays put, however long the night.
Next: prevent any early drive by putting the keys in the house, then phone us. Little Boys Heath or Little Kingshill: wherever your drive is, that's where it gets drained. The equipment runs quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Little Kingshill?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a short way after the fill. Stony Lane, say, or the way to St Albans — a trip of under 25 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and pipework have had it. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
Your move: stop anywhere sensible, then turn your motor off. Little Kingshill lies under 10 miles from the M40; there, pull off at the next junction rather than pressing on for the services. No test restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Call, saying what distance the vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
Seven days back, the car was new to you. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet was right next to your diesel. Across Buckinghamshire, nobody is safe from it.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, only with an added step. The owner frequently needs to approve the work, under many hire and fleet agreements.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you're stuck in the car park outside Great Missenden, or by Little Kingshill Village Hall, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Little Kingshill
At times the fair answer is "I think so". What cap was taken off, you can't say; but the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and ammonia hangs by the filler. The gates of Little Kingshill Combined School in a rush, say, or someone's driveway out in Holmer Green.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no damage to the engine. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Take it that it went in, and never start your key. Describe what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a happier result than a run one drained.
Each AdBlue drain around Little Kingshill shares these steps
Whatever the situation, a single opening applies. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Full Moon or a side street close to Kingshill Baptist Church, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if your engine has run. Answers shape the job; the price comes by phone whilst no one has left yet.
Then that tank is emptied and your system purged 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 does not rinse out on its own. Then is the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of your car. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Before our engineers leave, it's tested to confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel. Long-term damage is very rare when it's caught soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover is included in many policies.
About Little Kingshill itself
Little Kingshill is a small village in Buckinghamshire, situated in the inland countryside of the South East region. Little Kingshill sits at an elevation of 171 metres, approximately 27.5 miles from London and 16.3 miles from St Albans. Little Kingshill is characterised by its predominantly detached housing and quiet rural setting, near to other small communities such as Little Boys Heath and Spurlands End.
AdBlue drains across Buckinghamshire, Little Kingshill included
Spurlands End and Heath End get the identical teams as Little Kingshill, a rural village, plus further towns over HP postcodes. A postcode starting HP16 0 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Little Kingshill or in a lay-by en route to Little Kingshill Recreation Park, and so leave it where it is. We drain it where it is. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Holmer Green Royal British Legion or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In one line: your situation
If it hasn't run, ring then leave it that way. Whatever line fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Buckinghamshire and in Little Kingshill — after you pull over, switch off then ring, if it has run.