Old Haywoods: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
If AdBlue has got into the diesel tank, leave the motor off and leave your ignition off. Urea dissolved in water is all AdBlue is. As it is water-based, it won't ignite and never combines with diesel; damage just starts when your pump begins drawing it. Caught before the engine has been run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Old Haywoods. First, phone us on 0333 366 0103.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in your diesel tank around Old Haywoods
Things to do:
- Keys out — then nobody can power anything on.
- If you're anywhere close to moving traffic, put the hazard lights on.
- So you can tell us which liquid it was and about what quantity, keep the till receipt or the empty bottle.
- Call right where you are. Say a S36 2 postcode or the closest street sign, and no one has to hunt for you.
Don't:
- Shifting the car just a few yards is no reason to start your motor.
- Do not switch your ignition on. On many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump.
- Don't top up with diesel to dilute it. AdBlue does not mix in diesel; it separates out.
- Do not drive it anywhere, not even a short distance up Haywood Lane.
- Draining that tank yourself beside the road isn't one to try.
Moving your car off the pumps is a job for staff to help with, wherever Old Haywoods forecourt you are on, the Murco included. If you are on your own drive, leave it precisely where it is.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
AdBlue is made for your exhaust, not your engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sprayed into your exhaust, and there it cleans the gas. No part inside an injection pump is designed for this liquid — and no part of it was meant to go through one.
Tipped in with the diesel, it keeps separate instead of blending — entirely unlike fuel. The pickup sucks fuel from the deepest part of that tank, and that is precisely where AdBlue settles: being denser than diesel, it sinks. Easiest of all: a vehicle that got AdBlue in Carr Head last night and hasn't been started since. The liquid waits at the foot of the tank, untouched — but it will be the first thing through if your engine starts, ahead of any diesel at all.
After it's drawn in, the damage takes two forms. What is left when the water evaporates is urea, which turns into crystals: they settle in tiny channels and clog filters. On top of that, it attacks some metals in a fuel system, and keeps going until it is cleared out. A vehicle left standing around Old Haywoods with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue just in its tank is not. The water in it does damage of its own: the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors rely on diesel to lubricate them, and water offers them nothing.
AdBlue in a diesel: why it is commonly worse than petrol
Petrol put into a diesel on JET's forecourt leaves the fuel thin — that is the whole fault. Blended through the diesel and left unused, it's harmless at that stage; running the engine is the harm.
AdBlue in a diesel is an issue of the wrong substance altogether. It does not burn, so it can't just be run through. Nor can it be thinned, since it separates back out — and the following fill will not clear away deposits or corrosion. So the flush matters for more with AdBlue, and trying the engine "to see", in the centre of Old Haywoods or out in Royd, does more harm than almost any other mistake.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Wherever across South Yorkshire your car has come to rest, an unrun engine leaves the AdBlue still inside the reservoir: the easiest bit of any fuel system to empty.
How AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank in Old Haywoods
It is not on purpose. Plenty of vehicles keep the AdBlue inlet beside the diesel inlet, occasionally behind one flap, and muddling them up is easy in poor light. It usually occurs outside the house, from a bottle bought en route home, not at the filling station.
It tends to take place in a few familiar ways. Halfway through the morning drop-off, the dashboard flags it up, and outside Deepcar St John's Church of England Junior School the top-up is hurried. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off Manchester Road. Or a driver new to that flap refills your vehicle in dim light, parked in the car park outside Pen Nook.
The least familiar cars get it the most — hire cars, new cars, fleet cars, and the spare motor of a home with one of each fuels. Leave it off: that is the first step to an identical slip, anywhere around Old Haywoods or the remainder of South Yorkshire you happen to be.
Old Haywoods: started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank?
In that case, the AdBlue is no longer in your tank. Your filter and lines have had it sucked through, and any running time carries it on to the injection pump and every injector.
You may see the engine running unevenly, smoking, losing power, showing warning lights or cutting out, perhaps on the way back from Fox Glen or halfway across Old Haywoods. No starting it again to check: pull over once it is safe, then switch everything off. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
On the M1, under 5 miles from Old Haywoods, the first junction is where to exit, and anywhere sensible is where to park — not driving on.
Every mile pushes the AdBlue further into your system. That's why a hop across Old Haywoods to park near Saint John's, Deepcar and a drive of under 10 miles towards Sheffield are very separate jobs. Let us know about how far it had come.
Wherever the car came to a halt is where all of it gets done, even with more to rinse out once the engine has been running. Very rarely does it leave permanent damage if it's spotted soon.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve around Old Haywoods?
Wherever it has come to rest around Old Haywoods — a forecourt, a layby, a driveway, a street by St Anne’s Catholic Church — our van comes to the vehicle. Before anything else our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if the motor has been run, since those replies determine the work.
The contaminated diesel and the urea leave together when that tank is drained, on the spot. A careful flush counts much more after AdBlue than after petrol, because residue will not clear away on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once our technicians are there. The pumps are explosion-proof, safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Lastly, the system is bled with clean diesel. Whether it's a parking space outside Penistone or a driveway around Old Haywoods, that is where our engineers start the car and you head off. Our engineers confirm it runs smoothly on fresh diesel before we leave. The whole job is done where your car is, so it never needs to be taken to a garage. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report afterwards, which is what insurers want.
About Old Haywoods
Old Haywoods is a suburban area situated on the riverside in South Yorkshire, with an elevation of 163 metres and a mix of semi-detached housing. Old Haywoods lies approximately 8 miles from Sheffield, and is near other local places such as Wood Royd and Deepcar. Old Haywoods has a population of around 5011 people, and is located about 149 miles north of London. Old Haywoods is characterized by its residential layout and proximity to the river.
AdBlue drains in Old Haywoods and across South Yorkshire
Throughout the S postcode area, the vans taking AdBlue call-outs around Old Haywoods serve much of South Yorkshire too, Wood Royd, Deepcar and Wood Willows included. Ring and check instead of guessing when you're by a county line, or anywhere tricky to explain.
Anywhere the car stands — a drive 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; that suits Old Haywoods, a residential suburb, well.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right in Old Haywoods
No single figure would be honest, since every job is different. What changes the cost is, first of all, whether the motor has been running and for how long; then how much AdBlue got in; and then where your car is and whether our van can get to it safely, which is easier on an open drive than in a tight space behind Stubbin Estate Community Centre.
With that reason, each call from Old Haywoods opens by asking the same trio — what was put in, how much, if it ran — ahead of a figure. Once those are known, a range becomes a single fixed number.
The price is given during the call, before anyone leaves; settling up happens on the day, by card or over the phone, and nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
Still beside your car around Old Haywoods?
Then the most helpful thing you can do is nothing to the car. Keys out, motor off, ignition off. Phone 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, roughly how much, and whether it ran is all our engineers ask. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder across South Yorkshire, Old Haywoods too.