What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Newbold Verdon
Everything turns on a single detail: if your engine has started since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Newbold Verdon itself or out in Osbaston. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush plus a drain, done just where your car stands in Newbold Verdon. Where your engine has been run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the vehicle off. It is a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Match your case to one of the ones below, anywhere around Leicestershire you are.
At the pump around Newbold Verdon: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: standing by the pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the right one. Be it Texaco, Esso or anywhere else in Newbold Verdon, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. No pump has pulled it through, so the AdBlue sits just in that tank.
Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle sits in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then save the receipt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the pump.
Newbold Verdon, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit 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 again at the cap. Houses just off Hornbeam Road get caught out as much as anywhere else.
Put simply: if your vehicle hasn't moved since, it's almost as good as spotting it at the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it around Newbold Verdon or Hunts Lane. The pumping kit runs quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Newbold Verdon?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a short way beyond the fill. It might have been heading for Leicester, under 10 miles away, or just down Jubilee Road.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have it. It travels further with every extra mile driven and each restart.
Next: find a safe place, pull in, and switch the engine off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M1, under 5 miles from Newbold Verdon. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Call, and say how far your vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a car you have had for a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet sits right next to your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Leicestershire.
The upshot: just as above, split by if it ran, but with one added stage. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it early cuts time. If you are stranded in the car park at Hinckley, or by Newbold Verdon Baptist Church, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Newbold Verdon
At times the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Newbold Verdon Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Cadeby.
In short: a spill near the filler leaves the motor no harm. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on your car will draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it got in, and don't start your key. Checking a tank that proves clean beats emptying one after it has been run — so phone then describe to us what you noticed.
Every AdBlue drain around Newbold Verdon shares these steps
Every case has the same start to the work. Three things come once our technicians reach your car — on a filling station, a driveway, a road by Methodist Church or the car park at Jubilee Inn: the liquid, the quantity, and if it has run. Replies set the work; the price follows on the call whilst nobody has set off yet.
Then your tank is cleared and the system purged 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. Finally are the filter, flushed or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the vehicle. 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. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it is running properly, and then we go. Long-term damage is very uncommon when it's spotted early, and the whole job is done where your car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Newbold Verdon and where it is
Newbold Verdon is a village in Leicestershire, situated approximately 8.7 miles west of Leicester, and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Newbold Verdon sits in a rural area at an elevation of around 135 metres, with nearby places including Hunts Lane and Brascote. Newbold Verdon is located near the larger city of Leicester, but remains a distinct and separate community. Newbold Verdon has a population of around 2248 people, according to recent estimates.
AdBlue drains around Newbold Verdon, and across Leicestershire too
Brascote and Newbold Heath get the same teams as Newbold Verdon, a rural village, along with further places throughout LE postcodes. The location is clearest from a postcode that starts LE9 9.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Alans Way Playing Fields or in a car park in the middle of Newbold Verdon, it doesn't need to move. The drain is done on the spot. Assuming doesn't help near Our Library @ Newbold Verdon, close to a county line or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Leicestershire and in Newbold Verdon — after you pull over, switch off and ring, if it's run.