What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Moor Park
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your engine has been started since. Wherever the car stands — Woodcock Hill, Moor Park — never start an engine that has not run yet. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. In Moor Park, that is typically emptied and flushed on the spot. Stop the minute you safely can and turn off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Below: the cases our engineers see, anywhere in Hertfordshire. Choose yours.
At the pump around Moor Park: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only spot it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Be it Esso, Shell or anywhere else in Moor Park, the case is identical.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is the best it can be. Only that tank has AdBlue; not one component beyond it has drawn it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the queue needs clearing. Three things: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Stuck beside the pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt safe, so it can be drained where it is.
Moor Park, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used on the driveway. Houses just off Batchworth Lane get hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: no driving since leaves this nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and remains put, however long it waits.
Put the keys indoors tonight — or someone might take it away at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it gets drained, whether around Moor Park or Batchworth Heath. Night-time clears outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Moor Park?
A mile or two after topping up, your motor started playing up: rough running, smoke, lost power, lights on the dash. Possibly it was on Anson Walk, perhaps on the way out towards St Albans, under 15 miles away.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has taken the AdBlue up. The high-pressure pump and each injector see it as well on a bigger run, once your filter and pipework have it. More driving, more restarts: deeper it travels.
Stop safely — that is the first step — then switch everything off. On the M25, under 5 miles from Moor Park, that means the next exit, not the services further on. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. About what distance had it gone? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
A week back, it was new to you. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside the diesel. Anywhere you happen to be across Hertfordshire, every driver can be caught.
The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, but with one added step. Many rental and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off for work.
Sorting it before the van turn up is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. If you're stranded in the car park outside Rickmansworth, or by Holy Trinity Church Hall, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Moor Park: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. What cap came off, you can't say; but the bottle weighs less than expected, and ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of Holy Trinity CofE Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in Batchworth.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no harm to the motor. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Take it that it was put in, and never turn your key. Tell us what you saw on your phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better outcome than an already-run one drained.
The common ground in every Moor Park AdBlue drain
No matter the situation, one start applies. Forecourt, drive, Prince of Wales's car park or a road by Northwood Cricket Club — our van reaches your vehicle, and three questions come next: what liquid, what quantity, and if it ran. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told the quote, and those replies shape the work too.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it's crucial, because crystals form and certain metals corrode, and neither washes away unaided. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The majority of unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our technicians arrive.
Finally, we fire it up. Our technicians make sure it runs correctly on new diesel before we leave. If it is spotted soon, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money in advance. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Moor Park, briefly
Moor Park is a locality in Hertfordshire, situated inland at an elevation of around 108 metres, approximately 15.5 miles from London. Moor Park lies near several other communities, including Batchworth Heath, Northwood, and Eastbury, and is about 10.1 miles from the city of St Albans. Moor Park has a population of around 1291 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Moor Park is a residential area with a mix of local amenities and rural surroundings.
AdBlue drains around Moor Park and across Hertfordshire
Being a small village, Moor Park has the same vans as the nearby places — Eastbury, Northwood — right across HA postcodes. A postcode starting HA6 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Garden of Remembrance, or right in the heart of Moor Park, the car remains where it is — there is no need to move it anywhere. We drain the vehicle where it stands. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you're close to Holy Trinity Church, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down.
In one line: your scenario
Engine never started: ring, leaving it switched off. Run by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, in Moor Park and Hertfordshire, on 0333 366 0103.