What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Meadow Head
Everything turns on a single detail: if the motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is in Meadow Head itself or out in Beauchief. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, done just where your vehicle stands around Meadow Head. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Stage one stays unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Compare your case to one of the list below, wherever across South Yorkshire you happen to be.
On a Meadow Head forecourt with 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. Whether Morrisons, BP or anywhere else in Meadow Head, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Have the staff to help pushing it to a bay, save the bottle, then ring us from there. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that cannot be pushed clear is drained right at the petrol pump.
At home in Meadow Head with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Drives close to Abbey Brook Court get it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of the tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop any early move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. In Greenhill or here around Meadow Head, the draining is done at your drive. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Meadow Head: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and before long the engine was running roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Maybe it was on Abbey Brook Close, perhaps on the way out towards Sheffield, under 5 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Through the filter, along the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. Service stations further on are too far: on the M1, under 10 miles out of Meadow Head, take the next junction. No trial restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue will do. About how far had it go? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've had the vehicle hardly a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right next to your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in South Yorkshire.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it's run. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts need the owner's sign-off before work.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. Leave the vehicle switched off while the answer arrives, even if you are waiting outside Dore & Totley or near Our Lady of Beauchief and Thomas of Canterbury.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Meadow Head
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's driveway in Norton Woodseats, or in a rush outside St Thomas of Canterbury School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy on the school run.
The upshot: your motor isn't harmed by a little AdBlue spilled around the filler. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank would be sucked in by turning on your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not crank it. Describe what you saw on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one drained.
Every AdBlue drain in Meadow Head shares these steps
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere the vehicle is — The Abbey's car park, a road by St Chad's, a driveway, a filling station — the van gets there and asks about the liquid, the quantity, plus if the engine has been run. On the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those replies shape the work too.
Then that tank is emptied and your system cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Then is the filter — flushed, or swapped where needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of your car. If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Our technicians fire it up last. Before our engineers go, it is tested to confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it's spotted quickly, permanent damage is very uncommon. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Meadow Head itself
Meadow Head is a suburban area situated near the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, with a riverside setting that offers scenic views. Meadow Head has a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities, and is located at an elevation of around 175 metres. Meadow Head is close to nearby places such as Greenhill and Little Norton, and is about 3.4 miles from Sheffield city centre. Meadow Head has a population of approximately 5043 residents.
Meadow Head and South Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Little Norton and Bolehill get the same teams as Meadow Head, a residential suburb, along with further towns throughout S postcodes. Giving us your S8 7 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is needed, whether parked centrally in Meadow Head or on a layby en route to Chancet Wood, and so keep it put. The drain happens on the spot. Awkward to pin down? Close to Woodseats Library, Doctor's Surgery and Lloyds Pharmacy or a border? Checking is better than assuming, and so ring.
Your situation, in one line
Where it has not started, phone and keep it that way. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout South Yorkshire and in Meadow Head — after you stop, switch off and phone, if it's run.