What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Shipley Common
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started afterwards. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is in Shipley Common itself or out in Larklands. Leave your engine and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Shipley Common. When the engine has run, stop safely first, then switch the vehicle off. It's a larger job, though step one does not change.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, anywhere around Derbyshire. Pick yours.
Shipley Common forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just at this point, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Anywhere in Shipley Common, then — Asda Express, Tesco, or anywhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is the best it gets. Just your tank holds AdBlue; not one part beyond it has taken any in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Get the attendants to lend a hand pushing it into a bay, save the bottle, then phone us from there. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear is emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Shipley Common drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Picked up a bottle, poured it in at home, recycled the empty — and only then checked the cap again, after the fact. It takes place on drives just off Whitehead Close as frequently as anywhere.
The point: zero miles since leaves this nearly equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue settles to the base inside your tank and stays. A night standing changes nothing.
Keep the keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person may take it away at breakfast — then call us. In Cotmanhay or here in Shipley Common, the draining happens on your drive. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Shipley Common with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Summerfields Way South, say, or the way to Nottingham — a run of under 10 miles.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that is the first step — then turn everything off. Service stations farther along can wait: on the M1, under 3 miles out of Shipley Common, take the next junction. It won't have cleared, and so there is no point restarting to check. Call, and say what distance the vehicle was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the two inlets sit side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Anywhere you are around Derbyshire, any motorist could slip up.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or fleet terms.
Settling it before we arrives is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stuck in the car park at Ilkeston, or by Abbotsford Community Centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Shipley Common: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". What cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. A hurried stop by the gates of Granby Junior School, or a visit to a friend in Cossall Marsh: both fits.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no damage to your motor. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Firing up your car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would draw it in.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not start the vehicle. Describe what you saw on the phone. A clean tank checked is a happier result than an already-run one drained.
Shipley Common: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation has the same start to the work. Wherever the car stands — Rutland Cottage's car park, a road by Elim Christian Centre, a driveway, a forecourt — the van gets there and we ask about the liquid, the amount, plus whether your motor has turned over. Those replies determine the work, and you get the quote on the phone, before anybody sets off.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Clean diesel is put in once the fuel filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then checked. Never started? In that case about half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Before our engineers go, it's tested to make sure it runs properly on fresh diesel. Long-term damage is very uncommon if it is spotted early, and the whole job is done where your car is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents while you wait is worthwhile.
About Shipley Common, for a moment
Shipley Common is a suburban area in Derbyshire, situated near the town of Ilkeston and approximately 7 miles from Nottingham. Shipley Common has a relatively low elevation of around 80 metres, and its semi-detached housing stock is typical of many similar areas in the East Midlands. Shipley Common is located inland, with nearby places including Cotmanhay and Ilkeston Junction.
AdBlue drains across Derbyshire, Shipley Common included
Over DE postcodes, the teams serving Shipley Common — a residential suburb — reach nearby towns too, Ilkeston and Ilkeston Junction among them. Fastest of all: a DE7 9 postcode for your location.
Parked heading to Manners Playing Fields, or right in the heart of Shipley Common, your car stays put — there is no need to shift it at all. Wherever it sits, that's where it gets drained. Phone and ask rather than guess when you are by Victoria Park Leisure Centre, near a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down.
Your scenario, in one line
Engine never started: phone, leaving it alone. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, in Shipley Common and Derbyshire, on 0333 366 0103.