AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Long Sandall: What Now?
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your engine has run since. Not run so far? Then keep the vehicle that way, wherever the car sits — Long Sandall or Almholme. Leave your motor and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Long Sandall. Pull over the minute you safely can then switch off, if it has been run. Step one stays the same, even if the job is bigger.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across South Yorkshire it happened.
Long Sandall forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Tesco, Sainsbury's or anywhere else in Long Sandall, the case is identical.
The point: of all places to notice, this is the best. Just that tank has AdBlue; no part past it has taken any in.
Next: resist the temptation to start it only to free up the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking spot, keep your receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Emptying it right at the pump is possible if it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Long Sandall
On your dash, a warning had been lit for days. Bought a bottle, poured it in outside the house, binned the empty — and only then looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. Homes just off Sandall Carr Road get hit as much as everywhere else.
In short: if your car has not moved since, it is almost as good as finding out at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and stays there, however long it waits.
Next: keys indoors, and so no one drives your vehicle off at breakfast. Then, phone. We drain it on your drive, whether that is around Long Sandall or out in Kirk Sandall. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Long Sandall?
A short way after filling up, your engine began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Sandall Stones Road, say, or the way towards Doncaster — a run of under 5 miles.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. It has been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. It goes deeper with each mile driven and every restart.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, and turn your motor off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M18, under 3 miles from Long Sandall. No test restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. About what distance did it go? Tell us when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week ago, the car was new to you. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits just beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across South Yorkshire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Many rental and company agreements need the owner's sign-off for work.
Sorting it before the van arrives is quicker, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck near Church of the Good Shepherd or outside Kirk Sandall till someone replies, the vehicle remains turned off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Long Sandall
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think so. What cap was taken off, you can't say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Wheatley Hills, or rushing by Canon Popham CofE Primary Academy at the school run.
Meaning? Spills around the filler never touch your engine at all. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be pulled in by starting your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it was put in, and never start the engine. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What each AdBlue drain around Long Sandall has in common
Each case gets the same opening to the job. Wherever the car stands — Glass House's car park, a road by Saint Oswalds Church, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and asks for the fluid, the quantity, plus if the motor has turned over. Answers set the work; the quote follows by phone whilst nobody has left yet.
Then your tank is cleared 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally come the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the vehicle. The majority of unrun vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers arrive.
Finally, we start it. Before we go, it's tested to confirm it runs smoothly on new diesel. Permanent damage is very uncommon if it's caught quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Paying is that day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes included in plenty of policies.
About Long Sandall itself
Long Sandall is a suburban area located on the banks of the River Don in South Yorkshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Long Sandall sits at a low elevation of around 10 metres, close to the town of Doncaster and near neighbouring communities such as Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe. Long Sandall is part of the wider Doncaster urban area, with the city centre just 3.3 miles away. Long Sandall has a population of approximately 1846 residents.
AdBlue drains around Long Sandall, and across South Yorkshire too
Long Sandall is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Edenthorpe and Barnby Dun among them, across the DN postcode area. A postcode starting DN3 1 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No moving is required, be it stopped in the centre of Long Sandall or on a layby heading to Brecks Plantation, so leave it put. The van empties it in place. Tricky to explain? By St Thomas of Canterbury or a border? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
Your situation, in one line
Motor never started: phone, and leave it alone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Long Sandall and anywhere across South Yorkshire on 0333 366 0103.