Modest Corner: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has run since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Modest Corner itself or out in Broomhill Bank. Leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Modest Corner. Where the motor has been run, stop somewhere safe first, then switch it off. It is a bigger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Below: the cases we meet, wherever in Kent. Choose the one that fits.
At the petrol pump around Modest Corner: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the filler you opened was not the right one. It could be the Bidborough Service Station, or the BP, or a different forecourt around Modest Corner.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a car that can't be pushed clear gets drained where it is at the pump.
At home in Modest Corner with AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. It happens on driveways just off Modest Corner as often as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. At the bottom of your tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Next: stop any early-morning drive by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Our technicians drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that's around Modest Corner or out in Southborough. Night-time empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
On the road around Modest Corner with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two after the top-up. Maybe driving to London, under 50 miles away, or just along Victoria Road.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a longer trip, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. Every restart, like each mile, carries it on.
What to do: pull over where it's safe then switch off. Exit at the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M25, under 10 miles from Modest Corner. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Let us know the distance covered as you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
A week back, it was new to you. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Kent.
The upshot: just as above, divided by if it ran, but with one added step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Keep it off as the reply comes, even if you are parked outside High Brooms or close to St Peter.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Modest Corner
At times, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Southborough CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Speldhurst.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to your motor. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Any AdBlue in your tank will be pulled in by starting the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not start the vehicle. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank looked at is a happier result than an already-run one emptied.
Modest Corner: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Every case has the same start to the work. Wherever the vehicle is — The Imperial's car park, a street beside Christ Church, a driveway, a filling station — our van arrives and we ask for the liquid, the amount, and whether the engine has turned over. The price is given over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers set the work.
Then your tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly, which counts 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. Then comes the filter — flushed, or swapped when necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit from the moment our engineers arrive.
Our engineers start the engine at the end. We confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel before we leave. Long-term damage is very uncommon if it is caught early, and the whole job is done where the car 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, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Modest Corner
Modest Corner is a small hamlet in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of around 100 metres. Modest Corner lies within the South East region of England, approximately 29 miles from London. Modest Corner is surrounded by nearby places such as Southborough, Stockland Green, and Bidborough, and is characterized by predominantly semi-detached housing. Modest Corner has a population of around 1106 residents.
Modest Corner and Kent: AdBlue drains across the area
Stockland Green and Bidborough have the identical vans as Modest Corner, a rural hamlet, plus further places throughout TN postcodes. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode that starts TN4 0.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Whortleberry Wood or in a car park in the middle of Modest Corner, it doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is. Awkward to explain? By St Dunstan's Catholic Church or a border? Checking is better than guessing, and so phone.
In one line: your scenario
Engine never started: ring, leaving it alone. Whichever line fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Kent and in Modest Corner — once you pull over, switch off and phone, if it has run.