Park Wood: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it was put in. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Park Wood itself or out in Cock Street. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. Across Park Wood, such a case is generally emptied and cleaned on the spot. Already started? Pull over once you safely can, then switch everything off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Compare your case to a situation from the ones below, wherever across Kent you are.
At the petrol pump around Park Wood: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: standing by the petrol pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the cap you opened was not the correct one. Somewhere in Park Wood, then — Texaco, Morrisons, or somewhere else close by.
The upshot: of all places to notice, this is the best. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no excuse to run it — so don't get back in. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed away is cleared right at the pump.
Park Wood, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had shown all week. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the drive. Drives close to Brishing Lane get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of that tank and stays put, however long the night.
Next: prevent any early drive by putting your keys indoors, then phone us. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that's in Park Wood or out in Three Tees. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Park Wood with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. It might have been heading to Southend-on-Sea, under 25 miles away, or simply along Goldings Way.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that is the first step — then switch it off. Park Wood lies under 3 miles from the M20; there, come off at the next junction rather than pressing on for the services. No trial restarts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us know the distance driven as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the car hardly a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap was right next to the diesel. Anywhere you are across Kent, any motorist can slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. The owner often needs to approve any work, under plenty of hire and fleet agreements.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we get there than after. Stuck near St Martin's Church or at Bearsted till the firm replies, the car remains switched off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Park Wood?
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. The gates of Leigh Academy Tree Tops in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive out in Langley.
Put simply: spillage near the filler leaves the motor unharmed. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, turning on the vehicle will draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it got in, and never turn the key. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain in Park Wood has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The White Horse or a side street near The Beacon, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if your motor has been run. On the phone, before anything else, you are told our price, and those replies decide the work too.
Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush — more important with urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear by themselves, however long you wait. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment we turn up.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Our technicians make sure it runs properly on clean diesel before leaving. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it is spotted early, permanent damage is very uncommon. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Park Wood and where it is
Park Wood is a suburban area in Kent, situated near the River Medway at an elevation of around 101 metres. Park Wood lies within the South East region of England, approximately 34.7 miles from London and 21.8 miles from Southend-on-Sea. Park Wood is characterized by its terraced housing and riverside setting, with nearby places including Three Tees, Marlpit, and Shepway.
Park Wood and Kent: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout ME postcodes, the teams covering Park Wood — a residential suburb — reach nearby places as well, Marlpit and Shepway included. Your location comes clearest from a postcode beginning ME15 9.
Parked heading to Old Steve's Wreck, or bang in the heart of Park Wood, your car stays where it is — there's no need to move it anywhere. The drain happens on the spot. Awkward to pin down? Close to Shepway Library or a county line? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
Your situation, summed up
Motor never started: ring, leaving it switched off. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever it is, across Park Wood and Kent, on 0333 366 0103.