AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Market Harborough, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it got in. Over in Lubenham or right in Market Harborough, an unrun motor should remain that way. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine still off. Across Market Harborough, such a case is typically drained and flushed where it stands. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one stays unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Anywhere across Leicestershire it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
Market Harborough forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Imagine it: standing by the pump, gripping the nozzle, you realise the cap you took off was not the right one. Whether The Co-operative, Sainsbury's or anywhere else in Market Harborough, the case is identical.
Put simply: no better place to be to spot it. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after the car is in a space — the staff will help push it — and keep the receipt. Emptying it there at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Market Harborough drive?
On the dash, a warning had shown all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Homes just off High Street get caught out as often as anywhere else.
Put simply: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's almost equal to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of your tank and remains there, however long the night.
Keep the keys in the house tonight — or someone may take it off at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it is emptied, whether around Market Harborough or Little Bowden. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Market Harborough?
Topped up, drove away, and soon your engine was running unevenly, smoking, down on power, or flashing up the dash. It might have been driving to Leicester, under 15 miles away, or just along Abbey Street.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Distance decides how far it goes: filter and pipework to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the next job — then turn it off. Service stations further along are too far: on the M1, under 15 miles out of Market Harborough, take the next junction. It won't have cleared, so there is no point starting it again to check. Phone, and say what distance your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
A week back, the car was unknown to you. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Leicestershire, no one is immune.
In short: an extra step on top of the situations above, and those turn on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Sorting it before the van arrives is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside the nearest station, or near St Dionysius? Keep your engine off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Market Harborough?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Gartree.
The upshot: the motor isn't harmed by a little AdBlue splashed around the outside. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the vehicle will suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not fire it up. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a better outcome than a run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain in Market Harborough has in common
The work begins identically, whatever your case. Wherever the car is — The Kings Head's car park, a street by Market Harborough Magistrates' Court, a driveway, a filling station — the van arrives and asks about the fluid, the quantity, and if your motor has turned over. On the phone, before anything else, you are told the price, and those answers decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts far more here than with petrol. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Our technicians fire it up last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our technicians make sure it's running smoothly, and then we leave. We do the entire job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been spotted quickly. Paying is that day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your documents as we travel is worthwhile.
About Market Harborough
Market Harborough is a town in Leicestershire, situated on the River Welland at an elevation of 84 metres. Market Harborough has a mix of housing types, with semi-detached homes being particularly prevalent, and is located near several smaller settlements including Little Bowden and Great Bowden. Market Harborough is close to the larger city of Leicester, which is 13.8 miles away, and is also within commuting distance of London, at 75.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, Market Harborough included
Over LE postcodes, the vans serving Market Harborough — a riverside town — work nearby places as well, Great Bowden and East Farndon among them. A postcode starting LE16 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Garden of Remembrance or in a car park in the middle of Market Harborough, it doesn't need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it is emptied. Tricky to explain? By Harborough Museum or a border? Asking is better than guessing, so phone.
Your scenario, summed up
Engine not started: phone, and leave it switched off. Run already? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, in Market Harborough and Leicestershire, on 0333 366 0103.