Newtownabbey: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue went in? This one question settles almost everything about what comes next. Wherever your vehicle is — Mallusk, Newtownabbey — don't start an engine that hasn't run yet. Normally that means draining and properly cleaning it right there in Newtownabbey — so keep your ignition and motor off and ring 0333 366 0103. Pull over the minute you safely can then switch off, if it has already run. A larger job, then, yet the identical opening step.
Anywhere around County Antrim it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Newtownabbey forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Be it the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else around Newtownabbey, the situation is the same.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it can be. No pump has pulled it in, so the AdBlue sits only in that tank.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the queue wants clearing. Three jobs: a shove into a space with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Stuck by the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
At home around Newtownabbey with AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used on the driveway. Drives near Heugh Road get it as much as any other street.
The upshot: zero miles since leaves it nearly as good to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and stays put, however long the night.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — otherwise a person may drive it off at breakfast — then call us. Our engineers drain the car on your driveway, whether that is in Newtownabbey or out in Jordanstown. Late-night drains beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
Newtownabbey: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Chalet Road, say, or the route towards Belfast — a run of under 10 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More driving, more restarts: further it travels.
Your move: pull up somewhere safe, then turn your engine off. Services farther along are too far: on the M77, over 50 miles out of Newtownabbey, take the next junction. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Call, and say how far the car went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had the vehicle barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just next to the diesel cap — a surprise to you. Throughout County Antrim, nobody is immune.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, but with one added stage. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under many rental and company contracts.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. If you're stranded in the car park at the nearest station, or by the centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Newtownabbey?
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think so. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Holywood, or in a rush by the local primary school on the school run.
The point: your engine is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed around the outside. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Next: act as though it got in, then leave the engine off. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats emptying one once it's been run — so ring then tell us what you noticed.
The common ground in each Newtownabbey AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Our technicians come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street close to a street just off the centre, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if your motor has been run. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told our quote, and those answers decide the job too.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our technicians turn up.
Firing it up comes last. We make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel before leaving. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and if it is noticed soon, lasting damage is very uncommon. Paying is on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover is included in plenty of policies.
About Newtownabbey
Newtownabbey is a coastal town in County Antrim, situated near the shores of Belfast Lough, with nearby settlements including Jordanstown, Glengormley, and Greenisland. Newtownabbey has a varied landscape, with some areas reaching an elevation of 124 metres, and is located approximately 5.3 miles from Belfast. Newtownabbey is characterised by its predominance of terraced housing, reflecting its history of residential development. Newtownabbey is also relatively distant from London, at around 324.6 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Newtownabbey, and across County Antrim too
Newtownabbey is a coastal town, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Glengormley and Greenisland among them, across the BT postcode area. The location comes quickest from a postcode beginning BT37 9.
Centre of Newtownabbey or a layby towards the green space at the edge of the village: either way it is, your vehicle doesn't need to shift an inch for us. Wherever it sits, that is where it is emptied. Awkward to explain? By the far end of the built-up part or a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the car off and call. Run by now: pull over, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Newtownabbey or anywhere in County Antrim.