Pembury: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one fact: if the motor has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Not run so far? Then keep the car that way, whether the vehicle sits — Pembury or Sherwood Park. Call 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and engine both off. In Pembury, that is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, yes, but the identical opening move.
Anywhere around Kent it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Pembury forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the cap you took off wasn't the correct one. Possibly you are at the Esso, possibly at the BP, maybe somewhere else around Pembury.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Get the attendants to help rolling it into a space, hold on to the receipt, then ring us from there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away is cleared where it is at the petrol pump.
At home in Pembury with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Driveways close to Lower Green Road see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles low in your tank and stays. One night standing changes none of that.
Your move: keys indoors, and so nobody takes your car off first thing. After that, phone. Your driveway is where it is emptied, be it around Pembury or Henwood Green. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road in Pembury with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a short way after the fill. High Street, perhaps, or the route to Brighton and Hove — a run of under 50 miles.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. Through your filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. Leave by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M26, under 15 miles from Pembury. No trial restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue will do. About how far did it gone? Say so when you phone.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
A week back, it was unknown to you. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers are side by side here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it in another spot. Wherever you happen to be in Kent, every driver could be caught.
The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, but with one added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, since settling it beforehand saves time. If you are stuck in the car park outside High Brooms, or by War Memorial, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Pembury
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Sound familiar? A hurried stop by the gates of Pembury School, or a call to a friend in Sandown Park: both fits.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no harm to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up your car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Assume it was put in, and never start the key. 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 in Pembury has in common
The work opens identically, whatever your situation. Our engineers come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Camden Arms or a side street near Upper Church of St Peter, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if the motor has been run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those replies decide the job too.
Emptying your tank comes first, then a full flush — more important with urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, allow about half an hour on site, in most cases.
Firing it up comes last. Our technicians check it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we leave. If it is spotted quickly, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth knowing: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents as you wait is worthwhile.
About Pembury
Pembury is a village in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of around 135 metres, and is located approximately 31.8 miles from London. Pembury has a population of around 1441 residents and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Pembury is close to several nearby places, including Henwood Green and Lower Green, and is also within reach of the city of Brighton and Hove, which is about 29.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Pembury and across Kent
Over TN postcodes, the teams covering Pembury — a rural village — work nearby towns too, Lower Green and Romford included. Giving us a TN2 4 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Centre of Pembury or a lay-by near Village Green: either way it sits, your car never needs to shift at all for this drain. Our van drains it where it stands. Guessing won't help beside Pembury Village Hall, close to a border or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your scenario
If it hasn't started, ring and keep it that way. Run already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, in Pembury and Kent, on 0333 366 0103.