What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Maidenpark
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your motor has been run since it went in. Not started yet? Then leave the car that way, wherever the vehicle sits — Maidenpark or Corbiehall. Normally this means draining and thoroughly flushing it on the spot in Maidenpark — and so keep your ignition and engine off then phone 0333 366 0103. When your engine has run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the car off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Falkirk it happened.
On a Maidenpark forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the pump, gripping the nozzle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the right one. Be it Esso, Hastons of Bo'ness or anywhere else in Maidenpark, the situation is identical.
The upshot: of all places to find out, the forecourt is the best. Nothing has pulled it through, so the AdBlue sits just in the tank.
Freeing the pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — and save the bottle. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt safe, and so it can be drained where it is.
At home around Maidenpark with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit all week. 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. Drives close to Jamieson Avenue see it as much as anywhere.
Put simply: if the vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to finding out at the forecourt. At the floor of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or someone may drive it away at breakfast — and phone us. Castleloan or Maidenpark: wherever your driveway is, that's where it gets emptied. The pumping kit runs quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Maidenpark?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon your motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Anywhere on Maidenpark Place or on the road towards Dunfermline — under 10 miles away.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. It has been through your filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a safe place, pull in, and switch your motor off. Maidenpark lies under 3 miles from the M9; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pressing on for the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to check. Let us know the mileage covered as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've just driven the car for days. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just by the diesel inlet — news to you. Wherever you happen to be around Falkirk, any driver can be caught.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Any work on your car often needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet terms.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. If you are stranded in the car park outside Linlithgow, or by Newtown Park, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Maidenpark: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
At times the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's drive in Borrowstoun Mains, or rushing outside the local primary school at the school run.
The upshot: your engine is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be pulled in by turning on the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave your motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Maidenpark shares these steps
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. We come to the car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Newtown Bar or a side street close to Kinneil Guardian Gate Sculpture, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and if your motor has been run. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear the quote, and those answers shape the job too.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important with urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Fresh diesel is put in once the fuel filter is flushed or changed, and your car is then tested. Where your motor has not run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most jobs.
Starting the engine comes last. With new diesel in, it runs while our technicians make sure it is running properly, and then we head off. If it's caught quickly, the vehicle very rarely has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Payment is that day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover is included in plenty of policies.
About Maidenpark, briefly
Maidenpark is a suburban area in Falkirk, situated near the coast at an elevation of 56 metres. Maidenpark lies close to several nearby communities, including Castleloan, Deanfield, and Kinneil, and is within commuting distance of Dunfermline. Maidenpark has a population of around 5432 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Maidenpark is located approximately 342 miles northwest of London, in the central lowlands of Scotland.
AdBlue drains around Maidenpark, and across Falkirk too
Maidenpark is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places near it too, Deanfield and Kinneil among them, across the EH postcode area. Quickest of all: a EH51 0 postcode for where you stand.
No towing is required, whether parked in the centre of Maidenpark or in a layby heading to Calder Park, and so leave it put. We drain the car where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near St Mary of the Assumption Church or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, ring and keep it that way. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Maidenpark or wherever across Falkirk.