What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Menheniot
All of it hinges on one detail: whether your motor has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started so far? Then keep the vehicle that way, whether your car is — Menheniot or Lower Clicker. Leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Menheniot. When the engine has run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then switch it off. Step one remains unchanged, even though the work grows.
Wherever around Cornwall it took place, one of the cases below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Menheniot forecourt
You are 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. It might be the Morrisons, or perhaps the BP, or a different station around Menheniot.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Have the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us right there. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Menheniot
For days the dashboard had been warning you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Homes just off East Road get hit as much as anywhere else.
The upshot: no miles since makes it almost as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — otherwise a person may take it off at breakfast — then phone us. We drain the car on your drive, whether that is around Menheniot or out in Trewint. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Menheniot: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way after filling up, the motor started playing up: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. Maybe driving to Plymouth, under 15 miles away, or just along The Rodings.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue through already. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. More miles, more starts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Exit by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M5, under 50 miles from Menheniot. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Cornwall.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Stranded near The Church of St Lalluwy and St Antoninus or outside the nearest station until someone replies, the car remains switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Menheniot
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; no clear memory of which cap. Look familiar? Maybe on a friend's driveway in Pengover Green, or in a rush by Menheniot Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no harm to the motor. Inside your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in your tank would be sucked in by turning on your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it went in, and never start your key. Ring with the details: we'd rather confirm a clean tank than empty one once your engine has run.
Each AdBlue drain in Menheniot shares these steps
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere the vehicle is — The White Hart Hotel's car park, a road beside Menheniot Parish Hall, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and asks for the liquid, the quantity, and if the engine has turned over. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear the price, and those answers decide the work too.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, since crystals form and some metals are attacked, and none of it washes away unaided. Then comes the fuel filter — cleaned, or replaced where necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of your car. If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The final step is firing it up. Before our engineers leave, it is tested to make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel. If it's spotted early, the car very rarely has long-term 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. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Menheniot and where it is
Menheniot is a small village in inland Cornwall, situated approximately 109 metres above sea level. Menheniot lies near the villages of Trewint and Doddycross, and is within reach of the Roseland area. Menheniot has a population of around 779 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Menheniot is located about 12.8 miles from Plymouth and 200.4 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Cornwall, Menheniot included
Roseland and Doddycross have the same vans as Menheniot, a rural village, along with other places throughout PL postcodes. Fastest of all: a PL14 3 postcode for your location.
No towing is needed, be it stopped centrally in Menheniot or on a layby heading to Hepwell Wood, so leave it put. Our technicians drain it where it stands. Awkward to pin down? Close to Adrenalin Quarry or a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever it is, across Menheniot and Cornwall, on 0333 366 0103.