What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Newmachar
Everything turns on a single detail: if the engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Anywhere the car stands — Whitecairns, Newmachar — never start an engine that has not been started yet. Leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Newmachar. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then turn everything off. A larger job, then, yet the same first step.
Wherever around Aberdeenshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
On a Newmachar forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, bottle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Be it Asda, BP or anywhere else around Newmachar, the case is identical.
In short: no better place exists to discover it. No pump has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits only in your tank.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, however much the pump wants freeing. Ring us from the forecourt after your car is in a space — the attendants will help push it — and save the receipt. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt sensible, so it can be drained in place.
At home around Newmachar with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in on the drive — and it was only at the recycling that the cap caught a second look. Right off Disblair Road is not less likely from anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing alters nothing.
Next: prevent an early drive by putting the keys in the house, then phone us. Our engineers drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that's in Newmachar or out in Kingseat. The equipment works quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Newmachar: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere along Disblair Avenue or else heading to Aberdeen — under 10 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it too on a longer trip, after the filter and pipework have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Service stations further along can wait: from the M90, over 50 miles out of Newmachar, take the first junction. No trial starts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Roughly how far did it go? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've only driven the car for days. Unbeknown to you, the two inlets are side by side here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Throughout Aberdeenshire, no one is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies here — run or not — and one extra stage. Work on the vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or company agreements.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager to begin with, us next, because settling it early cuts time. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside Dyce, or beside Newmachar Library? Leave the car off meanwhile.
Newmachar: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of the local primary school in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive over in Sittyton.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no harm to the engine. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: assume it went in, and leave your engine off. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats draining one once it has been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain in Newmachar has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Beekies Neuk or a side street close to New Machar Parish Church, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your motor has been run. Answers shape the work; the price comes by phone whilst nobody has left yet.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Finally are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your vehicle. Where the motor has not been started, allow roughly half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Our engineers fire it up at the end. Before we head off, it is tested to confirm it runs correctly on new diesel. We do the entire job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very uncommon when it has been noticed quickly. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Newmachar
Newmachar is a village in Aberdeenshire, situated inland at an elevation of 102 metres, approximately 8.8 miles west of Aberdeen. Newmachar is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock and is surrounded by nearby places such as Kingseat, Kinmundy, and Craigie. Newmachar has a population of around 2273 residents, making it a small but established community in the area.
AdBlue drains in Newmachar, and across Aberdeenshire too
Newmachar is a rural village, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Kinmundy and Craigie among them, across the AB postcode area. A postcode starting AB21 0 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped en route to War Memorial Woods, or bang in the heart of Newmachar, your vehicle stays where it is — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Wherever it stands, that's where it is emptied. Tricky to pin down? Close to Axis Centre or a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
Your situation, in one line
Motor not started: phone, and leave it switched off. Run by now: pull over, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Newmachar or anywhere in Aberdeenshire.