Lower Drummond: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine run since the AdBlue was put in? This single point settles nearly everything about what comes next. Not run yet? Then leave it that way, wherever the car is — Lower Drummond or Haugh. Leave your engine and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Lower Drummond. When your motor has run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the car off. It's a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere in Highland you happen to be.
At the pump in Lower Drummond: AdBlue in a diesel
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. Perhaps you are at the Asda, perhaps at the Tesco, maybe somewhere else in Lower Drummond.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking spot, keep the receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed away gets emptied right at the pump.
Lower Drummond, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Houses just off Drummond Circus get hit as often as everywhere else.
The upshot: no miles since leaves this almost as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. In Upper Drummond or here in Lower Drummond, the drain happens at your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Lower Drummond: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long the motor was running roughly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Anywhere on Rosedene Court or else heading to Inverness — under 3 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. Distance decides how deep it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. Lower Drummond sits over 50 miles from the M90; on it, pull off at the first junction rather than pushing on to the services. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Let us hear the distance covered when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
Seven days back, the car was new to you. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right next to your diesel cap — news to you. Throughout Highland, nobody is safe from it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those depend on if it's run. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. Stuck by Inverness Ice Centre or outside Inverness till someone replies, your vehicle remains switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Lower Drummond
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Lochardil, or rushing by the local primary school at the school run.
In short: a spill round your filler leaves the motor no harm. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in your tank will be drawn in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it went in, then keep the motor off. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Lower Drummond has in common
No matter the situation, a single opening applies. Three questions come when our technicians reach the car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside TKD Sport or the car park at Castle Tavern: the fluid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been started. On the phone, before dispatch, you are told the price, and those answers decide the work too.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is crucial, because deposits form and some metals corrode, and neither rinses away unaided. Last come the fuel filter, cleaned or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a check of your car. Most unstarted cars are a half-hour job after the moment we arrive.
We fire it up at the end. Before our engineers go, it's checked to make sure it runs properly on clean diesel. Our engineers do the whole job where the car is, and long-term damage is very unusual when it has been noticed soon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Lower Drummond, for a moment
Lower Drummond is a suburban area situated on the coast of the Moray Firth, near the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Lower Drummond lies at an elevation of around 15 metres, with its detached housing stock reflecting the area's relatively affluent character. Lower Drummond is close to several other residential areas, including Upper Drummond, Hilton, and Ballifeary, and is located approximately 443 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains round Lower Drummond and across Highland
Throughout IV postcodes, the vans serving Lower Drummond — a residential suburb — reach surrounding places as well, Hilton and Ballifeary among them. Your whereabouts is clearest from a postcode beginning IV2 4.
Stopped heading to Bught Park, or right in the heart of Lower Drummond, your vehicle remains put — there is no need to shift it at all. The drain is done on the spot. Guessing won't help beside Florians Theatre, on a border or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Leave the vehicle that way then phone. Run by now: pull over, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Lower Drummond or wherever across Highland.