--- title: What Now? AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Riccarton canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/riccarton-city-of-edinburgh/ location: Riccarton county: City of Edinburgh latitude: 55.911960 longitude: -3.312640 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-17 --- # Riccarton: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue went in? This one question decides almost everything else from here. Not run so far? Then leave the car that way, whether your vehicle is — Riccarton or Baberton. Usually that is emptying and properly rinsing it right there in Riccarton — so leave your key and motor off and ring 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, then, yet the identical first move. Compare what happened to a situation from the ones below, wherever in City of Edinburgh you are. ## At the petrol pump around Riccarton: AdBlue in a diesel Just at this point, nozzle still in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Somewhere in Riccarton, then — Sainsbury's, BP, or anywhere else close by. In short: no better spot exists to spot it. Just your tank has AdBlue; no part past it has drawn it in. Your move: keep out of the car, however much the queue wants clearing. Have the attendants to help pushing it into a space, save the bottle, then phone us right there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt safe, and so we can drain it in place. ## Riccarton, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank Days had gone by with the dash light on. Picked up a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and at that point checked the cap a second time, too late. Houses just off Riccarton Mains Road get caught out as much as anywhere else. Put simply: if the vehicle hasn't moved since, it is nearly as good as finding out at the forecourt. On the floor of that tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference. What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Out in Currie or here around Riccarton, the drain is done on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night. ## AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Riccarton? Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. Maybe it was on The Avenue, maybe on the way out towards Edinburgh, under 10 miles away. Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the injectors. It travels further with each extra mile driven and each restart. Do this: pull up anywhere safe, then switch the motor off. Leave by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M8, under a mile from Riccarton. No test restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Call us and say how far you travelled. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors You have had the car barely a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, the inlet is right next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Wherever you happen to be around City of Edinburgh, any motorist could be caught. In short: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which depend on if it has run. Many hire and company contracts require the owner's sign-off for repairs. Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Keep the car off as the reply comes, whether you're waiting at Curriehill or near Oriam. ## Riccarton: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? At times the honest answer is "I think so". What cap was taken off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. It might have been on a friend's drive in Wester Hailes, or rushing outside the local primary school at the school run. In short: a spill near your filler leaves the engine unharmed. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Starting the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would pull it in. Do this: act as though it got in, and don't start your engine. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier result than an already-run one emptied. ## Each AdBlue drain in Riccarton shares these steps The job begins the same way, whichever the situation. Filling station, drive, Heriot Watt Student Union's car park or a road beside A Stone for the Whales — the van reaches your car, and three answers come next: what liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run. The price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies shape the work. Draining that tank comes next, then a careful flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't go on their own, no matter how long it sits. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there is most jobs. Our engineers fire it up last. Before our engineers go, it is tested to make sure it runs properly on new diesel. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it is noticed quickly, permanent damage is very uncommon. Payment is on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Worth remembering: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents while we travel is worthwhile. ## About Riccarton, for a moment Riccarton is a locality situated on the riverside in the City of Edinburgh, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Riccarton lies approximately 5.6 miles west of Edinburgh's city centre, near the communities of Currie and Hermiston. Riccarton's elevation is around 85 metres above sea level, and it is home to a population of around 1716 people. Riccarton is also relatively close to other nearby places, including Sighthill. ## AdBlue drains about Riccarton and across City of Edinburgh Hermiston and Sighthill have the same teams as Riccarton, a small village, plus further towns throughout EH postcodes. Telling us your EH14 4 postcode finds you quickest of all. Central Riccarton or a layby near The Lawn: either way it is, the car doesn't need to move at all for us. Where it stands, that is where it gets drained. Assuming won't help near Finn Stone, on a county line or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask. ## In one line: your situation Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and call. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Riccarton and anywhere in City of Edinburgh on 0333 366 0103.