What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lower Largo
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue went in? This one point settles almost everything about what comes next. Over in Drumeldrie or here in Lower Largo, an unstarted engine should remain unrun. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine still off. Across Lower Largo, that is typically drained and cleaned on the spot. Already started? Stop once you safely can, then switch everything off. Step one stays the same, even though the job grows.
Further down: the situations our engineers meet, wherever around Fife. Pick yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Lower Largo forecourt
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Somewhere in Lower Largo, then — Sainsbury's, Shell, or somewhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. Still in your tank, with nothing pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so do not get back in. Get the staff to help rolling it to a space, save the receipt, then phone us from there. Emptying it right at the pump is fine if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Lower Largo drive?
For days the dash had been warning you. A bottle from the shop, tipped in at the driveway — and it was only by the bin that the cap got your eye. Driveways near Main Street see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and stays there, no matter how long it waits.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Out in Drummochy or here in Lower Largo, the drain happens on your drive. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road around Lower Largo with AdBlue in a diesel
A short way beyond topping up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on the dash. Durham Wynd, perhaps, or the way to Dundee — a trip of under 25 miles.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it too on a bigger run, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that's the first step — then turn everything off. Leave by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M90, under 25 miles from Lower Largo. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Ring us and say how far you went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had this car hardly a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be around Fife, every driver can be caught.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it has run. Many rental and company contracts require the owner's approval for repairs.
Your move: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it beforehand saves time. Stranded by Obelisk or outside Leven till the firm answers, the vehicle remains switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Lower Largo
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. Lighter, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Look familiar? A rushed stop by the gates of the local primary school, or a visit to a friend in Scoonie: either fit.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no damage to the motor. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank will be pulled in by starting the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Assume it went in, and don't start the engine. Describe what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one emptied.
Lower Largo: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, drive, Railway Inn's car park or a road beside Alexander Selkirk Memorial — the van reaches your car, and three questions follow: which fluid, what quantity, and whether it has run. Those replies determine this work, and you get the price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then your tank is cleared and the system rinsed 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Next is your filter — flushed, or swapped where necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Our technicians start it last. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it's running smoothly, and then we head off. If it is caught soon, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Lower Largo itself
Lower Largo is a small coastal village in Fife, situated on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, with the nearby towns of Lundin Links and Upper Largo. Lower Largo has a population of around 991 people, living in predominantly detached housing. Lower Largo sits at a low elevation of 12 metres above sea level, close to the beaches and scenic coastal paths of the area.
AdBlue drains round Lower Largo and across Fife
Over KY postcodes, the teams covering Lower Largo — a coastal village — work nearby places as well, Upper Largo and Lundin Links included. The location is clearest from a postcode beginning KY8 6.
Parked heading to Keil's Den, or right in the heart of Lower Largo, your vehicle remains where it is — there's no need to move it at all. The drain is done on the spot. Tricky to explain? Close to Malagan or a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so ring.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep it off then ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Lower Largo and anywhere around Fife on 0333 366 0103.