What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in RAF Coltishall
All of it hinges on one detail: if the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Wherever your car is — Little Hautbois, RAF Coltishall — never run an engine that hasn't run yet. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush plus a drain, done right where your car stands around RAF Coltishall. When your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe first, then turn it off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, wherever in Norfolk you happen to be.
At the pump around RAF Coltishall: AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Anywhere in RAF Coltishall, then — Esso, BP, or anywhere else close by.
The upshot: of all places to find out, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it cannot be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in RAF Coltishall
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Right off Church Road is not less likely from any other place.
Put simply: if your car hasn't moved since, it is almost as good as spotting it at the forecourt. On the bottom of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Put the keys indoors overnight — or someone might take it off first thing — then call us. We drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that is in RAF Coltishall or out in Badersfield. Our pumping kit works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
RAF Coltishall: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way beyond the fill. Lamas Lane, perhaps, or the route to Norwich — a trip of under 10 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Through the fuel filter, along the lines, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, then turn the motor off. On the M11, over 50 miles from RAF Coltishall, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Tell us hear the mileage covered when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever in Norfolk, might make it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies too — run or not — plus one further step. Plenty of rental and company agreements require the owner's sign-off for repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you're stuck in the car park outside Worstead, or by All Saints, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
RAF Coltishall: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. Too light, the bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Sound familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Swanton Abbott Community Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Swanton Abbott.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler never reach your engine at all. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. Any AdBlue in your tank would be sucked in by starting the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Your move: behave as though it got in, and never start the engine. 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.
The common ground in every RAF Coltishall AdBlue drain
The job begins the same way, whichever the situation. Three questions come when our technicians reach the car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside Scottow Village Sign or the car park outside The Diplomat: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has run. Your price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies set the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out unaided; that's why the flush, after the drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then comes the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of your car. Where the motor hasn't been started, allow about half an hour on site, for most cases.
Firing it up comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running properly, and then we head off. Long-term damage is very uncommon if it's caught quickly, and the whole job is done where your car is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy while you wait pays.
About RAF Coltishall
RAF Coltishall is a locality in Norfolk, situated inland at an elevation of 21 metres, approximately 9.5 miles north of Norwich. RAF Coltishall is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is located near other small settlements such as Badersfield and Scottow. RAF Coltishall has a population of around 679 residents and is within commuting distance of Norwich, while also being about 107 miles from London.
RAF Coltishall and Norfolk: AdBlue drains across the area
Scottow and Lamas get the identical vans as RAF Coltishall, a small village, plus further towns over NR postcodes. Fastest of all: a NR10 5 postcode for where you stand.
Central RAF Coltishall or a layby near Steward's Plantation: wherever it is, the car never needs to shift an inch for us. We drain it where it sits. Assuming won't help beside Saint Edward's Church, close to a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
Your situation, in one line
Unstarted? Keep it that way then ring. Run already? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever case, across RAF Coltishall and Norfolk, on 0333 366 0103.