AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newhailes? Don't Start It
With AdBlue in the diesel tank, your ignition remains off and so does the motor. Urea mixed in water is all AdBlue is. It doesn't burn, it doesn't mix with diesel, and the damage it does begins when the system pulls it in. Caught before your engine has run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Newhailes. Phone 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in the diesel tank in Newhailes
Do:
- So no one can switch your ignition on, pull the keys away.
- Put the hazard lights on if you're at all close to moving traffic.
- Keep the receipt or the empty bottle, so you can tell us what was put in and about how much.
- Our van finds you fastest with a postcode starting EH21 6, or simply the name of a street close by, and so call from the car.
Not to do:
- Not even briefly, and not to roll your car: the motor stays off.
- Your ignition remains off: on many diesels, turning it on is enough to run your fuel pump.
- No more fuel added. The AdBlue won't mix, and so it's pointless.
- Don't drive the vehicle anywhere, not even a short way down Maitland Park Road.
- No emptying it yourself, at all, at the roadside.
Ask the people behind the counter to help you roll your car off the pumps if you're at a forecourt around Newhailes, whether it is the Shell or elsewhere. If you're on your own drive, leave the vehicle exactly where it sits.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
The engine isn't what AdBlue is made for; the exhaust is. Its own reservoir keeps it, and from there it is sprayed into your exhaust, and there it cleans the fumes. Nothing in it is meant to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is made to handle it.
Inside a diesel tank it acts really differently from fuel. It does not mix in. It drops, because it is heavier than diesel, and settles down where the intake draws its fuel from. Easiest of all: one that had AdBlue in Whitehill last night and hasn't turned since. The liquid waits at the foot of the tank, untouched — though it will be the first thing through once the motor starts, before any diesel at all.
It causes two kinds of damage from there. Crystals and corrosion. As the water dries, it leaves urea that crystallises in filter elements and tiny passages; meanwhile, since it eats at certain metals, every part it reaches keeps suffering for as long as it stays in there. By daybreak, a car parked around Newhailes with AdBlue through its pipework gets worse; if it is just inside the tank, it doesn't. Then there is the water: it brings no lubrication to the components that rely on it the most — the injection pump and every injector.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is frequently worse
Top up a diesel with petrol by mistake at the Tesco, and this problem is diluted fuel. Blended into your diesel and sitting unused, it is no threat at that stage; using your engine does the damage.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the liquid as such is plainly the wrong one. It doesn't burn, so it can't just be run through. Deposits and corrosion stay after the following fill, and AdBlue splits back from the diesel, and so watering it won't work. Hence the flush counts more, and turning the key "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than nearly any other slip — in Joppa or the heart of Newhailes equally.
With AdBlue, the good news is no separate from petrol. Emptying a tank is the easiest job on any fuel system, and without running, the AdBlue stays in it — wherever around East Lothian the vehicle has stopped.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Newhailes?
It's not on purpose. Plenty of vehicles have the AdBlue inlet beside the diesel one, now and then behind a single flap, and muddling them up is easy in poor light. A container picked up when heading home and poured in at home, rather than at the filling station, is the usual route.
Usually, it takes place in one of a few familiar ways. Halfway through the morning drop-off, the dashboard flags it up, and outside the local primary school the top-up is rushed. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off Dalrymple Crescent. Else, after dark outside Ship Inn, the vehicle is refilled by a driver using that flap for the first time.
The least familiar cars get it most — rentals, brand-new ones, fleet cars, and the spare vehicle in a home with both fuel types. An identical mistake, an identical first step — keep it off — anywhere you happen to be in Newhailes or the rest of East Lothian.
Already started the engine with AdBlue in your diesel tank in Newhailes?
The AdBlue has left that tank, then. With any running time, it goes on to the high-pressure pump and every injector, after passing through the filter and lines.
Rough running, smoke, dropping power, dashboard warnings or stalling: each might show up, maybe part way across Newhailes or returning from Newhailes House & Gardens. No restarting to check: stop once it is safe, then turn it off. With each start, more of that is pulled through.
Newhailes lies under 10 miles from the M8; if you were on it, exit at the next junction and pull up safely instead of driving on.
Mileage counts: each mile carries the AdBlue deeper in, and so driving towards Edinburgh, under 5 miles away, gives a much larger job than hopping across Newhailes to the car park by Memory and Reflection. Tell us about how far it had come.
There's more to rinse out once the motor has run, and our technicians do all of it where the vehicle has stopped. Lasting damage is very rare if it's noticed early.
Draining AdBlue in a diesel around Newhailes: what it takes
Our engineers come to the vehicle, wherever it has stopped around Newhailes: a side street close to Earl of Stair's Monument, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. The job rests on three replies, and we ask for before all else — which fluid went in, the amount, and whether the motor has turned over.
Next, emptying that tank on the spot takes out the polluted diesel and the AdBlue in one go. A careful flush counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol, since residue will not clear out by itself. Fresh diesel goes in once your filter is flushed — or replaced, when it needs to be — and after that your vehicle is tested. Engine not run? In that case count on about half an hour once we are there for most jobs. The equipment is explosion-proof, and so a busy filling station is no issue, and it is quiet enough for a residential street late at night.
The final step is to bleed the fuel system on fresh diesel. Then our technicians start it and you head off, whether from a parking bay outside Musselburgh or a driveway around Newhailes. Our technicians confirm it runs smoothly on new diesel before we leave. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, so it never has to be taken to a workshop. Insurers want a VAT invoice and an engineer report, and both come at the end.
About Newhailes itself
Newhailes is a coastal suburban area in East Lothian, situated near the city of Edinburgh. Newhailes lies at a low elevation of around 9 metres, close to the shores of the Firth of Forth. Newhailes is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing and is located near other local places such as Stoneyhill and Fisherrow.
AdBlue drains around Newhailes and across East Lothian
Stoneyhill, Stoneyhill Steading and Fisherrow are among the towns near Newhailes that the same teams reach, along with much of East Lothian further out, over the EH postcode area. Assuming doesn't help close to a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
Wherever the vehicle stands — your driveway at home, a residential street, a car park, a forecourt — our technicians empty it on the spot, and there's no need to take it to us; which suits Newhailes, a residential suburb, well.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right in Newhailes
Every job is different, so not one fixed price is fair. Whether your engine has been running, and for how long, comes first in what moves the cost. How much AdBlue went in comes next, and then the location of the car, because an open drive is easier for our van to reach safely than a tight space behind Olivebank Stadium.
That's why every call from Newhailes starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what got in, how much, and if it has run. Given them, a range shrinks to one firm number.
Before a van sets off, you hear our quote on the phone. And you pay on the day, card or by phone, with nothing in advance. Misfuelling cover comes with many insurance policies, so it pays to look at yours before the van gets there.
Newhailes: still alongside the car?
Then the most handy thing you can do is nothing to the vehicle. Engine off, keys out, ignition off. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, across Newhailes or wherever in East Lothian, once you phone 0333 366 0103 to say it's AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and if it ran.