AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Loddon: What Now?
Everything turns on a single detail: if your motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Anywhere the vehicle stands — Hales, Loddon — never run a motor that hasn't been started yet. Usually this is draining and thoroughly flushing it on the spot in Loddon — so leave the key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. When your engine has run, stop somewhere safe straight away, then switch the car off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical opening move.
Compare what happened to a situation from the ones below, anywhere across Norfolk you happen to be.
At the petrol pump in Loddon: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. Be it Shell, Fuelsell or anywhere else in Loddon, the situation is identical.
The upshot: of every spot to notice, this is the best. Just that tank has AdBlue; no component past it has taken it in.
Next: resist the temptation to fire it up only to free up the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — then keep the receipt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away gets drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Loddon drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the drive. Just off Market Place is not less likely from anywhere.
The point: no driving since makes it nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Out in Chedgrave or right here around Loddon, the drain happens at your drive. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Loddon: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way beyond topping up, the engine began playing up: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Swan Court, perhaps, or the route to Norwich — a run of under 15 miles.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. Every restart, like every mile, carries it on.
Next: pick a sensible spot, stop, then turn your engine off. Loddon sits over 50 miles from the M11; on it, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on to the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no sense restarting to check. Phone, saying how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the cap is right next to your diesel inlet — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Norfolk.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before our technicians get there than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Cantley, or by Loddon Library, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Loddon?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. A slight ammonia-like smell hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. A hurried top-up by the gates of Loddon Junior School, or a visit to a friend in Heckingham: either fits.
The point: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue spilled around the filler. Inside your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on your car will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Take it that it was put in, and never start your key. Ring us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Loddon AdBlue drain
Whatever the situation, one start is used. Three questions come when we reach your car — at a filling station, a driveway, a road by Church of the Holy Trinity or the car park outside King's Head: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has been started. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
Then the tank is drained and the system flushed 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced when necessary — then fresh diesel, and a test of your car. Never started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
The last step is starting the engine. Our test that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before our engineers leave. Long-term damage is very rare if it is spotted soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your policy as you wait is worthwhile.
About Loddon
Loddon is a town situated on the River Chet in Norfolk, with a population of around 4076 residents. Loddon sits at a low elevation of 13 metres, near the villages of Chedgrave, Stubbs Green, and Sisland. Loddon is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and its location near the city of Norwich, approximately 10 miles away. Loddon is also within a reasonable distance from London, at around 98 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Loddon and across Norfolk
As a riverside town, Loddon shares its vans with the nearby towns — Sisland, Stubbs Green — right across NR postcodes. Quickest of all: a NR14 6 postcode to show your location.
Central Loddon or a layby towards Harvey Green: either way it sits, your vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for this drain. Wherever it sits, that is where it is emptied. Awkward to pin down? By Jubilee Hall or a border? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Leave the car that way and phone. Run by now: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Loddon or anywhere across Norfolk.