North Kilworth: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Then keep the motor off — and your ignition as well. Urea dissolved in water is all AdBlue is. It doesn't burn, it does not mix with diesel, and the harm it does begins when your fuel system draws it in. If your motor hasn't run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is normally drained and thoroughly flushed where the car sits around North Kilworth. First, phone us on 0333 366 0103.
North Kilworth, AdBlue in your diesel tank: what to do right away
Do these:
- Take the keys out, and so nobody switches the ignition on.
- If you're at all close to moving traffic, put your hazards on.
- Hold on to the receipt or the empty bottle, so you can tell us what went in and roughly how much.
- Our van finds you fastest with a postcode starting LE17 6, or simply the name of a street close by, and so phone from the car.
Don't:
- Do not start your motor, even for a moment to shift the car.
- Your ignition remains off: on lots of diesels, switching it on is enough to run your fuel pump.
- No extra fuel on top. The AdBlue won't mix, so it's wasted.
- Leave the vehicle where it is instead of driving it anywhere, even a short distance along Wash Pit Lane.
- Do not try to drain the car yourself by the kerbside.
On a forecourt in North Kilworth, whether it's the Esso or another one, ask the attendants to help you roll the car clear of the pump. If you're on your own drive, leave the car exactly where it sits.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
Not your motor but your exhaust is where AdBlue is meant to go. From a dedicated tank it is fed straight to your exhaust, cleaning what the motor lets out. A fuel pump is not made to cope with it, and AdBlue was never supposed to go through one.
Fuel blends; AdBlue, after poured in, won't. Its behaviour is nothing like fuel's. The pickup sucks fuel from the deepest part of the tank, and that is precisely where AdBlue settles: being denser than diesel, it sinks. The first thing the fuel system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a car that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Welford last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of that tank, and nothing has pulled it in.
Two kinds of damage follow from there. What is left once the water goes is urea, which turns into crystals: they lodge in narrow passages and block filters. On top of that, it attacks certain metals in the fuel system, and carries on till it is cleared out. Pipes carrying AdBlue spell harm by morning for a vehicle sitting around North Kilworth. Just in your tank, it stays the same. Diesel protects the injection pump and each injector as it passes; water offers none of that, and that is a separate kind of damage.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is frequently worse
A problem of thinned fuel is what you end up with after filling a diesel with petrol from the Inver. Mixed into the diesel and sitting still, it is no threat at that stage; running your motor does the damage.
AdBlue in a diesel is another matter: not thin fuel, but no fuel at all. Not burning, it can't just be run through. Nor can it be thinned, because it splits again — and the following tankful will not clear away crystals or corrosion. So the flush counts more here, and trying your engine "to see", in the heart of North Kilworth or out in Sulby, costs more than almost any other error.
As with petrol, there's good news. Wherever around Leicestershire your vehicle has stopped, an unstarted motor leaves the AdBlue yet inside the reservoir: the easiest bit of any fuel system to empty.
How AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank around North Kilworth
Nobody means to do it. The AdBlue filler on plenty of cars sits right next to the diesel filler, sometimes under the same flap, and the two caps can look alike in poor light. Most of the time it happens with a bottle bought on the way home and poured in on the driveway, not at the forecourt.
It tends to take place in a few familiar ways. Hurrying, outside St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, North Kilworth, after a warning light came on during the school run, a parent refills the car. After work, a bottle goes in on a drive near Green Lane. Or the car is topped up in the car park outside White Lion, in poor light, by someone who has never opened that flap before.
It crops up the most in a hire car, a brand-new motor, a company vehicle, or the other car in a family with both fuel types — the cars drivers know least. Leave it off: that is the first step to an identical slip, wherever in North Kilworth or the rest of Leicestershire you are.
North Kilworth: started the engine with AdBlue in your diesel tank?
If so, the AdBlue is no longer inside your tank. Given any running, it goes on to the high-pressure pump and every injector, having passed through the filter and pipework.
Maybe returning from North Kilworth Sports Club, or midway across North Kilworth, your motor may go lumpy, smoke, drop pace, light up the dash or cut out. When you safely can, pull over then turn it off — with no restarting to see. More of it is pulled through with each start.
North Kilworth lies under 5 miles from the M1; if you were on it, leave by the first junction and pull up somewhere safe instead of carrying on.
Mileage matters: every mile carries the AdBlue deeper in, so heading towards Leicester, under 15 miles away, makes a much bigger job than crossing North Kilworth to the car park by North Kilworth War Memorial. Let us know roughly how far it had come.
Once your engine has run, the flush includes more, and all of it is done where your car has ended up. Noticed quickly, it very seldom leaves permanent damage.
Clearing AdBlue in a diesel in North Kilworth: what it takes
A road beside Belgrave Memorial Hall, a drive, a layby or a forecourt: anywhere the car has come to rest around North Kilworth, we travel to it. The job depends on three replies, and our engineers get before all else — which fluid was put in, the amount, and whether your motor has turned over.
Next, draining that tank on the spot takes out the polluted diesel and the AdBlue together. A full flush matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol, because residue won't clear away by itself. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once our technicians arrive. Quiet enough for use outside a house at night, and fine on a busy forecourt, the pumps are explosion-proof.
Fresh diesel goes in to prime the system, and that's the final step. You drive off as soon as our technicians have fired it up, and it makes no difference whether your car is on a driveway in North Kilworth or in a space outside Rugby. The test before our technicians go is that it runs smoothly on new diesel. Our technicians do it all wherever the vehicle has ended up, and it never has to be taken to a garage. At the end, there is paperwork for the insurer: a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer.
About North Kilworth
North Kilworth is a rural village in Leicestershire, situated in the East Midlands region of England, with an elevation of around 144 metres. North Kilworth lies approximately 13 miles south of Leicester and 76.9 miles north of London, near the villages of South Kilworth and Husbands Bosworth. North Kilworth has a population of around 766 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Leicestershire, North Kilworth included
Our teams that answer AdBlue calls around North Kilworth also cover the locations around it, South Kilworth, Husbands Bosworth and Walton among them, and most of Leicestershire beyond, across the LE postcode area. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask rather than assuming.
A van that comes to you suits North Kilworth, a rural village: you have no need to bring your car to us, since we drain it on the spot, on a driveway, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt.
AdBlue in a diesel tank around North Kilworth: the cost of fixing it
Each job differs, so no fixed quote is fair. The cost moves first with how long, if at all, the engine has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that got in. After that it turns on where the car is and whether our van can reach it safely, which is easier on an open drive than in a tight spot behind St Andrew's Church.
Before a quote, never after, each enquiry from North Kilworth opens with three questions: the fuel, the quantity, plus if it ran. The answers turn a range into a straight quote.
The quote is quoted during the call, before a van sets off; settling up happens on the day, by card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
In North Kilworth and still beside the car?
Not touching the car is, then, the best thing open to you. Ignition off, engine off, keys out. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, across North Kilworth or wherever within Leicestershire, after you ring 0333 366 0103 saying it's AdBlue, roughly what quantity, and whether the engine ran.