What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Longframlington
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has run since it went in. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Longframlington itself or out in Old Swarland. Leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Longframlington. Stop the moment it is safe and turn off, if it has been run. Stage one remains the same, even though the job is bigger.
Compare your case to one of the list below, wherever in Northumberland you happen to be.
Longframlington forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Picture it: stood by the pump, gripping the bottle, you spot the filler you opened was not the right one. Whether the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else around Longframlington, the case is the same.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. Get the staff to help pushing it into a bay, save the receipt, then ring us from there. Emptying it right at the pump is possible when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Longframlington with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Homes just off Beech Tree Close get caught out as often as anywhere else.
Meaning? Provided your vehicle has not moved since, it is second to the forecourt case. Being unable to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing alters nothing.
Keep your keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person may drive it away first thing — and call us. In North End or right here around Longframlington, the drain is done at your driveway. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Longframlington?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere along Church Street or on the road towards Newcastle upon Tyne — under 25 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a longer run, after the fuel filter and lines have had it. More miles, more restarts: deeper it goes.
Next: pick a safe spot, pull in, and switch your engine off. Leave at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the A167(M), under 25 miles from Longframlington. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
Seven days ago, the car was unknown to you. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is just by your diesel inlet — news to you. Wherever you happen to be in Northumberland, any driver could be caught.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, which depend on if it's run. Work on the vehicle frequently requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet terms.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. If you're stranded in the car park at Acklington, or by St. Mary the Virgin, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Longframlington?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle weighs less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Swarland, or rushing by Swarland Primary School at the school run.
The upshot: your engine isn't harmed by a little AdBlue spilled around the filler. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. Any AdBlue in the tank will be drawn in by turning on the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it went in, and leave your engine off. Phone and give the details: we would sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one once your engine has run.
Longframlington: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens the same way, whatever your situation. Three things are asked when we reach the car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street by Longframlington Memorial Hall or the car park outside The Village Inn: the liquid, the amount, and whether it has been started. Over the phone, before dispatch, you hear our quote, and those replies decide the job too.
Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't go on their own, no matter how long it sits. Then comes your filter — flushed, or replaced where necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
We fire it up at the end. Our engineers make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel before we go. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it is caught soon, long-term damage is very rare. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money in advance. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Longframlington
Longframlington is a rural village in Northumberland, situated inland at an elevation of 156 metres, and is located approximately 23.6 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Longframlington has a population of around 1060 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Longframlington sits near other small settlements such as North End and Healey Cote, and is about 271 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Northumberland, Longframlington included
Over NE postcodes, the vans serving Longframlington — a rural village — work nearby towns too, Healey Cote and Weldon among them. Your location comes clearest from a postcode that starts NE65 8.
Centre of Longframlington or a lay-by near King George's Field: either way it sits, the vehicle never needs to move an inch for the drain. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets cleared. Assuming doesn't help near Brinkburn Priory Church, close to a county line or somewhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
Your situation, summed up
Unstarted? Leave the vehicle that way then phone. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, across Longframlington and Northumberland, on 0333 366 0103.