Pitlochry: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything hinges on a single detail: if your engine has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Out in Milton of Edradour or right around Pitlochry, an unstarted motor should stay unrun. Leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Pitlochry. Stop the moment you safely can and switch off, if it has already run. Stage one stays the same, even though the work is bigger.
Below: the situations we meet, wherever around Perth and Kinross. Pick yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Pitlochry forecourt
Only at this point, bottle still in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Be it BP, Gulf or somewhere else in Pitlochry, the situation is the same.
The point: of all places to notice, this is the best. Only that tank has AdBlue; not one part past it has drawn any in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Pitlochry with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the drive. It happens on drives just off Bonnethill Road as regularly as anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue settles low in the tank and waits. A night standing alters none of that.
Next: the keys indoors, so nobody drives the car anywhere at breakfast. After that, ring. Port na Craig or Pitlochry: whichever your drive sits, that is where it gets drained. Late-night drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road in Pitlochry with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the top-up. Perhaps it was on Station Lane, possibly on the way out towards Perth, under 25 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Distance sets how far it goes: filter and lines to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. It goes further with each extra mile driven and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. Pitlochry lies under 25 miles from the M90; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on for the services. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Let us hear the distance driven as you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've only driven the car for days. Unbeknown to you, the two inlets are next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you are around Perth and Kinross, every motorist can be caught.
In short: one extra stage on top of the cases above, and those depend on whether it has run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Your move: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, since sorting it early cuts time. Hanging on for an answer at the car park at the nearest station, or near The Perthshire Gallery? Leave the car off meanwhile.
Pitlochry: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". What cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of the local primary school in a rush, perhaps, or someone's drive over in Faskally.
Put simply: spillage near the filler does your motor unharmed. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Next: assume it got in, then keep the engine off. Ring us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Pitlochry AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Three things come when our technicians reach the car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street by War Memorial or the car park outside The Coach House: the liquid, the quantity, and if it has run. Answers set the job; the price follows on the call while nobody has left yet.
Emptying the tank comes first, then a careful flush — more vital with urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Finally, we fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we check it is running correctly, and then we go. If it is noticed early, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job happens where it is. Paying comes on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes built into plenty of policies.
About Pitlochry, for a moment
Pitlochry is a town situated on the banks of the River Tummel in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Pitlochry sits at an elevation of around 100 metres, overlooking Loch Faskally and surrounded by rolling hills. Pitlochry is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock and is close to nearby places such as Port na Craig and Moulin. Pitlochry has a population of approximately 2693 residents.
Pitlochry and Perth and Kinross: AdBlue drains across the area
Pitlochry is a town, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Moulin and Kinnaird among them, across the PH postcode area. Telling us a PH16 5 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Parked heading to Pitlochry Putting Green, or bang in the centre of Pitlochry, your vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to shift it anywhere. The van empties it in place. Tricky to pin down? Close to board and bike ramps or a border? Checking beats assuming, and so phone.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then call. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Pitlochry and Perth and Kinross, on 0333 366 0103.