AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Soroba: What Now?
All of it hinges on a single detail: whether the motor has been run after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Soroba itself or out in Oban. Normally that means draining and properly cleaning it right there in Soroba — and so keep your key and engine off then phone 0333 366 0103. Where your engine has been run, pull in safely first, then switch the vehicle off. Stage one stays the same, even though the work grows.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Argyll and Bute it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Soroba forecourt
You're 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. It might be the Gleaner, or perhaps the Tesco, or another station around Soroba.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the pump needs clearing. Phone us from the forecourt once the car is in a bay — the attendants will help push it — and keep the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed away gets cleared where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Soroba
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the garage, tipped in at the driveway — and it was just at the bin that the cap got a second look. Right off Ulva Road is no less likely from any other place.
The point: zero miles since makes this almost equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — otherwise a person might drive it away at breakfast — and call us. We drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that is around Soroba or out in Lower Soroba. Night-time empties outside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Soroba?
A short way beyond filling up, your motor began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. McCaig Road, say, or the route towards Glasgow — a run of over 50 miles.
The point: the system has drawn AdBlue through already. Distance decides how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more restarts: deeper it goes.
Stop safely — that is the first step — then turn everything off. Soroba lies under 50 miles from the M8; there, come off at the first junction instead of pressing on for the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no point restarting to find out. Phone, and say how far your car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet was just next to the diesel. Throughout Argyll and Bute, no one is safe from it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the cases above, which depend on whether it has run. The owner frequently has to sign off any work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Hanging on for an answer at the car park outside Oban, or near An Dunan, dun site? Keep your car off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Soroba
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. Which cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of the local primary school in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's driveway over in Glencruitten.
The point: your engine is not hurt by some AdBlue splashed on the outside. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the car will draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it went in, and don't turn your engine. Phone and give what you saw: we'd sooner confirm a clean tank than empty one after your engine has run.
What every AdBlue drain around Soroba has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Wherever the car is — Lochavullin's car park, a street beside Wllowview Community Centre, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and we ask about the fluid, the amount, and if the engine has been run. Replies set the job; the price comes by phone whilst no one has left yet.
Emptying that tank comes next, then a careful flush — more important after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, however long it sits. Then comes the fuel filter — flushed, or swapped when needed — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Firing it up comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while we confirm it's running smoothly, and then we leave. Our technicians do the whole job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very unusual when it has been caught early. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Soroba, for a moment
Soroba is a coastal suburban area in Argyll and Bute, situated at an elevation of 48 metres, with views out to the sea. Soroba is located near several smaller communities, including Lower Soroba and Dalintart, and is characterized by predominantly flat-style housing. Soroba sits within a larger geographic area that includes notable landmarks like Pulpit Hill. Soroba is approximately 60 miles from Glasgow, making it a relatively accessible residential area.
Soroba and Argyll and Bute: AdBlue drains across the area
Soroba is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Dalintart and Pulpit Hill among them, across the PA postcode area. Your whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts PA34 4.
Stopped heading to Glencruitten Golf Club, or right in the centre of Soroba, your car stays where it is — there is no need to move it at all. Our technicians drain the car where it is. Assuming doesn't help beside Girl Guides, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Your situation, in one line
Where it hasn't started, ring then leave it off. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Argyll and Bute and in Soroba — once you stop, switch off and ring, if it's run.