What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Potters Green
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has been started since. Out in Woodway Park or here around Potters Green, an unstarted engine should remain unrun. Leave the engine and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Potters Green. Already run? Stop once safe, then switch it off. A bigger job, then, yet the same opening step.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, anywhere across West Midlands you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Potters Green forecourt
Picture it: standing by the pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the cap you opened was not the correct one. It could be the Gulf, or the another forecourt nearby, or a different station around Potters Green.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it gets. Still in your tank, with nothing pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up only to move away from the pump. Phone us from the forecourt once your vehicle is in a space — the attendants will help roll it — and save the bottle. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Potters Green drive?
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle from the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it was only at the recycling that the cap got your eye. Houses just off Broad Park Road get caught out as often as everywhere else.
In short: if your car has not moved since, it is nearly equal to finding out at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Your driveway is where it is drained, whether in Potters Green or Henley Green. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road in Potters Green with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, drove away, and soon the motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up the dash. Maybe heading for Coventry, under 3 miles away, or just along Watcombe Road.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through the system. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. It goes further with every extra mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Potters Green lies under a mile from the M6; on it, come off at the next junction instead of pushing on to the services. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone, saying what distance the vehicle was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have just driven the car a week. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers sit side by side here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Throughout West Midlands, nobody is safe from it.
The upshot: just as above, split by whether it ran, only with one added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Do this: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us next, because settling it beforehand saves time. Stuck by Site of end of Branch Line linking to Site of Alexandra Colliery & Craven Colliery via mineral lines or at Coventry Arena till someone answers, your vehicle remains turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Potters Green?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of Henley Green Primary in a hurry, say, or a friend's driveway out in Wyken Green.
In short: a spill near your filler leaves your engine no harm. In your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Take it that it went in, and don't turn the engine. Tell us what you saw on your phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier outcome than a run one emptied.
Potters Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Wherever your vehicle stands — The Boat Inn's car park, a street by Moathouse Leisure and Neighbourhood Centre, a driveway, a filling station — the van arrives and asks for the fluid, the quantity, plus whether the motor has been run. Those replies decide this work, and you get the price by phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear by themselves, however long it sits. Clean diesel goes in once the fuel filter has been flushed or changed, and your car is finally tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
We start it last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running correctly, and then we go. Lasting damage is very rare if it's noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. It is worth knowing: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as you wait is worthwhile.
About Potters Green, for a moment
Potters Green is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Coventry, situated near the River Sowe in the West Midlands region of England. Potters Green sits at an elevation of 88 metres, with its riverside setting influencing the local landscape. Potters Green is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in the West Midlands. Potters Green is close to other nearby suburbs, including Henley Green, Bell Green, and Wood End.
AdBlue drains in Potters Green, and across West Midlands too
Bell Green and Wood End have the identical teams as Potters Green, a residential suburb, plus other towns over CV postcodes. Telling us a CV2 1 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Moat House Park or in a car park in the middle of Potters Green, it doesn't need to move. Our technicians drain it where it sits. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to St Patrick's or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your situation, summed up
If it hasn't run, ring and leave it off. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Potters Green or wherever in West Midlands.