What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ohare
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your motor has been started afterwards. Not started yet? Then leave the vehicle that way, wherever your car is — Ohare or Braehead. Leave your engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Ohare. Already started? Stop when you safely can, then switch everything off. It is a larger job, yet stage one does not change.
Match what happened to a situation from the list below, wherever in West Dunbartonshire you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Ohare forecourt
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the cap you took off was not the correct one. Maybe you are at the John H Glen & Son, perhaps at the BP, perhaps somewhere else in Ohare.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Nothing has pulled it in, so the AdBlue sits just inside the tank.
Freeing the petrol pump is no excuse to run it — and so do not get back in. Phone us from the forecourt after the car is in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — and save the receipt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
Ohare, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Just off O'Hare is not less likely from anywhere.
The point: no miles since makes it nearly equal to finding it at the pump. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside the tank and stays. One night parked alters none of that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Bonhill or Ohare: whichever your drive sits, that is where it gets emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road around Ohare with AdBlue in a diesel
A short way after filling up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on the dash. Maybe heading to Glasgow, under 25 miles away, or simply down Ladyton.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue in by now. It's been through your filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More miles, more starts: deeper it goes.
Next: find a sensible place, pull in, and switch your engine off. Ohare lies under 5 miles from the M8; there, pull off at the next junction rather than pushing on for the services. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, saying how far the car went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had this car barely a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout West Dunbartonshire, nobody is immune.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner often has to approve the work, under plenty of rental and fleet contracts.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, because sorting it beforehand cuts time. If you're stuck in the car park at Alexandria, or by Bonhill Community Centre, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Ohare: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. A faint ammonia-like smell hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is a blur. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Dalmonach.
The upshot: the motor is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed on the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank would be drawn in by firing up the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it got in, and don't turn your key. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank checked is a better outcome than an already-run one emptied.
Each AdBlue drain in Ohare shares these stages
The work begins the same way, whatever the situation. Three things come once our technicians arrive — at a filling station, a driveway, a road by Dalmonach Community Centre or the car park outside The Fountain Tavern: the liquid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Answers shape the job; the quote comes by phone while nobody has left yet.
Then that tank is cleared and your system cleaned 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. Next comes the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Where your motor hasn't been started, allow about half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Lastly, our engineers fire it up. Our test that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers go. When it is noticed early, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the whole job happens where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Ohare itself
Ohare is a suburban area in West Dunbartonshire, situated on the coast at a relatively low elevation of around 50 metres. Ohare lies near the towns of Bonhill and Dumbarton, and is close to the larger city of Glasgow, which is approximately 15 miles away. Ohare has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced homes.
Ohare and West Dunbartonshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout G postcodes, the vans covering Ohare — a residential suburb — work surrounding towns too, Pappert and Redburn included. Your location comes clearest from a postcode beginning G83 9.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Redburn Park or in a car park in the middle of Ohare, it does not need to move. Wherever it sits, that's where it is drained. Assuming won't help near Millburn Park, on a county line or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
Your scenario, in one line
Engine never started: phone, and leave it switched off. Run by now: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Ohare or wherever in West Dunbartonshire.