Mayfield: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the motor has run since it got in. Out in Ardrossan or here in Mayfield, an unstarted motor must stay unrun. Normally that is draining and thoroughly purging it right there around Mayfield — and so keep your ignition and motor off then phone 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the cases we see, wherever across North Ayrshire. Pick yours.
On a Mayfield forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it Esso, BP or anywhere else around Mayfield, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Still in that tank, and no fuel pulled through: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Your move: stay out of the car, even if the pump needs freeing. Phone us from the forecourt once the car is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then save the bottle. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Mayfield drive?
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle from the garage, emptied in at the drive — and it was just at the bin that the cap caught a second look. It happens on drives just off Clyde View Avenue as often as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle hasn't been driven since, it's close to the pump case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: keys indoors, so nobody drives your vehicle anywhere at breakfast. Then, ring. Your drive is where it is drained, whether around Mayfield or Stevenston. The equipment works quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Mayfield?
A mile or two after topping up, the engine started playing up: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. It might have been driving for Glasgow, under 50 miles away, or simply down Mayfield Road.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue through by now. It has been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the injectors. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
Pull in safely — that is the first step — then switch everything off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M77, under 15 miles from Mayfield. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had this car hardly a week. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers sit side by side here — unlike your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it in another spot. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across North Ayrshire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Plenty of rental and fleet contracts require the owner's sign-off for work.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Hanging on for a reply at the car park at Stevenston, or near Bonnie Lesley Baillie Memorial? Keep your car off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Mayfield
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and ammonia hangs by the filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Kilwinning.
Meaning? Drips outside the filler never touch the motor at all. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different story. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the vehicle will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not fire it up. Ring and give what you saw: we'd rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one after the motor has run.
Each AdBlue drain in Mayfield shares these steps
Each case has the same start to the work. Forecourt, driveway, Cross Keys's car park or a road by Stevenston Library — our van comes to the vehicle, and three questions come next: what liquid, what quantity, and if it ran. Those answers determine the work, and you get our price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system flushed 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. Last come the fuel filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of the vehicle. If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is starting it. Our test that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. The whole job is done where the car is, and when it's caught quickly, lasting damage is very uncommon. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as we travel is worthwhile.
About Mayfield
Mayfield is a coastal suburban area in North Ayrshire, situated near the towns of Stevenston and Saltcoats. Mayfield has a relatively low elevation of 29 metres and is located approximately 25 miles from Glasgow. Mayfield is characterized by its terraced housing and is part of the wider conurbation along the Ayrshire coast. Mayfield is also within commuting distance to Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.
AdBlue drains round Mayfield and across North Ayrshire
Mayfield is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Auchenharvie and Saltcoats among them, across the KA postcode area. Your location is quickest from a postcode that starts KA20 3.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Auchenharvie Golf Course or in a car park in the middle of Mayfield, it doesn't need to move. Where it sits, that is where it is drained. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Auchenharvie Mining Disaster Memorial or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your situation, in one line
Unstarted? Leave the vehicle that way and phone. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Mayfield and anywhere around North Ayrshire on 0333 366 0103.