Porters Town: 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: whether the motor has run since it got in. Not run yet? Then keep it that way, whether your vehicle sits — Porters Town or Southchurch. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush plus a drain, carried out right where the car sits around Porters Town. Pull over the minute it is safe then switch off, if it has already run. A larger job, then, but the same first step.
Wherever around Essex it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
Porters Town forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Possibly you are at the Esso, perhaps at the BP, maybe somewhere else in Porters Town.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. Still in that tank, with nothing pulled through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — and so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away is cleared right at the pump.
At home in Porters Town with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. 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. Right off Essex Street is not less likely from any other place.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base inside the tank and waits. A night standing alters nothing.
Next: the keys in the house, and so no one takes the vehicle off at breakfast. After that, phone. Out in Southend-on-Sea or right here in Porters Town, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumping kit runs quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Porters Town: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Possibly it was on Southchurch Road, maybe on the way out towards Southend-on-Sea, under a mile away.
The point: the system has pulled AdBlue through already. Through your filter, along the lines, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. More driving, more restarts: deeper it travels.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Porters Town sits under 15 miles from the M2; on it, come off at the first junction instead of pressing on to the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no sense starting it again to find out. Phone, saying how far your vehicle was driven.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have only driven this car a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever around Essex, might make it.
The point: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, but with one added step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers get there than after. Keep the car off while the answer arrives, whether you are waiting outside Southend Victoria or close to All Saints, Prittlewell.
Porters Town: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. What cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. A hurried top-up by the gates of Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery, or a call to a friend in Westcliff-on-Sea: either fits.
The point: your engine isn't harmed by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Turning on the car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not crank it. Ring us and explain 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 Porters Town AdBlue drain
The work opens identically, whichever your situation. Our technicians come to the car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at Cow & Telescope or a side street near Coleman Street Chapel, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the motor has run. Those replies decide this work, and you get our quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it won't wash out unaided; that is why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then is the filter — cleaned, or replaced when needed — then clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. Most unrun cars are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers get there.
The last step is starting the engine. With new diesel in, it runs while our technicians make sure it is running properly, and then we leave. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it is noticed early, lasting damage is very rare. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Porters Town itself
Porters Town is a suburban area located on the coast of Essex, near the city of Southend-on-Sea. Porters Town sits at an elevation of 28 metres, with its predominant housing being flats, reflecting its urban character. Porters Town is close to other nearby places such as Clifftown and Prittlewell, and is situated approximately 36 miles from London. Porters Town has a population of around 12229 people, making it a sizable residential community.
AdBlue drains across Essex, Porters Town included
Being a residential suburb, Porters Town shares its vans with the nearby places — Prittlewell, Clifftown — all the way through SS postcodes. Fastest of all: a SS1 2 postcode to show your location.
Centre of Porters Town or a layby near Warrior Square Gardens: wherever it is, the vehicle never needs to move an inch for us. The drain is done on the spot. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to The Victoria or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep it off and ring. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Porters Town or anywhere across Essex.