AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Old Kilpatrick, and What to Do Next
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether the engine has run afterwards. Not started yet? Then keep the car like that, whether the vehicle sits — Old Kilpatrick or Mountblow. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where your car sits around Old Kilpatrick. Already run? Stop once you safely can, then switch it off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere around West Dunbartonshire it happened, one of the situations below matches yours.
On a Old Kilpatrick forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Somewhere in Old Kilpatrick, then — JET, Shell, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump wants clearing. A few jobs: a push into a space with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed clear gets cleared right at the pump.
Old Kilpatrick, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. 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. Driveways near Gavinburn Gardens see it as much as any other street.
The upshot: zero driving since makes this almost equal to finding it at the petrol pump. At the bottom of the tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, since it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Your move: keys indoors, so nobody takes the vehicle off at breakfast. After that, ring. Erskine Harbour or Old Kilpatrick: whichever your driveway is, that is where it gets drained. Night-time drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Old Kilpatrick?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Kirk Crescent, perhaps, or the route towards Glasgow — a trip of under 10 miles.
The point: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. The high-pressure pump and every injector see it as well on a longer trip, once the filter and lines have it. More driving, more starts: deeper it travels.
Your move: stop somewhere safe, then turn your motor off. Services further along are too far: on the Toll Plaza Interchange, under a mile out of Old Kilpatrick, take the next junction. Starting it again to test gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Roughly how far had it go? Say so as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had this car hardly a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap sits right beside the diesel. Anywhere you happen to be around West Dunbartonshire, any motorist can be caught.
The upshot: just as above, split by whether it ran, but with an added stage. The owner often has to sign off the work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Do this: hire firm or fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it beforehand cuts time. Stranded near Erskine crannog or at Kilpatrick until the firm replies, your vehicle stays turned off throughout.
Old Kilpatrick: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think so. A slight ammonia smell lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. The gates of the local primary school in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive out in Erskine.
The upshot: the motor is not hurt by some AdBlue splashed on the filler. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Turning on the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would draw it in.
Do this: behave as if it did, and don't start your engine. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What each AdBlue drain around Old Kilpatrick has in common
Every situation gets the same opening to the job. Three questions are asked once we arrive — at a forecourt, a driveway, a road beside St Patrick's RC Church or the car park outside The Glen Lusset: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has run. Your price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it does not wash out unaided; that's why a full flush, after the drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next comes the filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment our engineers turn up.
Starting it comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running correctly, and then we go. We do the whole job where your car is, and permanent damage is very rare if it has been caught early. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Old Kilpatrick itself
Old Kilpatrick is a suburban area on the north bank of the Clyde Estuary in West Dunbartonshire, with a mix of residential and industrial land use. Old Kilpatrick sits at a low elevation of around 16 metres, looking out across the estuary to the nearby town of Erskine and its harbour. Old Kilpatrick is located near the towns of Bowling and Bargarran, and is within commuting distance of Glasgow, which is approximately 10 miles away.
Old Kilpatrick and West Dunbartonshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Old Kilpatrick shares its vans with the nearby places — Bargarran, Bowling — right through G postcodes. Telling us a G60 5 postcode finds you quickest of all.
Stopped en route to The Saltings, or right in the centre of Old Kilpatrick, your car stays put — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Wherever it sits, that's where it gets drained. Awkward to pin down? By War Memorial or a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
The one-line version
Where it hasn't started, phone and leave it off. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, across West Dunbartonshire and within Old Kilpatrick — after you stop, switch off then ring, if it has run.