South Gyle: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the motor has run afterwards. Wherever your vehicle stands — East Craigs, South Gyle — don't run a motor that has not been started yet. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush plus a drain, done just where the car sits in South Gyle. Stop the moment you safely can and turn off, if it has already run. It's a larger job, though stage one does not change.
Below: the situations we meet, wherever across City of Edinburgh. Pick yours.
On a South Gyle forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Possibly you're at the Morrisons, possibly at the Shell, possibly somewhere else in South Gyle.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Still in the tank, and no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away gets drained right at the pump.
At home in South Gyle with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had passed with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Homes just off South Gyle Park are caught out as often as everywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not moved since, it is second to the pump case. At the bottom of your tank is where AdBlue stays, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Your move: keys in the house, and so nobody takes your vehicle anywhere first thing. After that, ring. In West Craigs or right here around South Gyle, the drain happens on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road around South Gyle with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the fill. Redheughs Avenue, perhaps, or the route towards Edinburgh — a trip of under 5 miles.
What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Mileage decides how far it gets: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and each injector. More driving, more restarts: deeper it goes.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, and switch the motor off. South Gyle lies under a mile from the M8; there, pull off at the first junction rather than pushing on to the services. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Let us know the mileage driven when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right next to the diesel inlet — news to you. Any driver, anywhere around City of Edinburgh, could do it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or company agreements.
Sorting it before the van arrives is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded near Primavera or at Edinburgh Park till the firm answers, the vehicle stays switched off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in South Gyle
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Sound familiar? The gates of the local primary school in a rush, say, or someone's driveway out in Gogar.
In short: spillage near the filler does your engine no harm. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Firing up the vehicle won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would draw it in.
Do this: act as though it got in, and never start your motor. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean is better than emptying one after it has been run — so ring then tell us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain in South Gyle shares these stages
The work begins identically, whatever your case. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Tarbet or a side street close to Vulcan, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. Replies shape the work; the quote comes on the call while no one has left yet.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system flushed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next comes the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your car. Where your motor hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
Finally, our engineers fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it's running smoothly, and then we go. Permanent damage is very unusual if it's noticed early, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About South Gyle and where it is
South Gyle is a suburban area located on the riverside in the City of Edinburgh, with a mix of residential and commercial properties. South Gyle sits at an elevation of 51 metres, close to the nearby places of West Craigs, Sighthill, and The Gyle. South Gyle is predominantly composed of flat-type housing, providing accommodation for its approximately 2701 residents. South Gyle is situated near Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, which is around 4.8 miles away.
AdBlue drains around South Gyle, and across City of Edinburgh too
Being a residential suburb, South Gyle shares its vans with the surrounding places — The Gyle, Sighthill — all the way across EH postcodes. Giving us a EH12 9 postcode finds you quickest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Gyle Park or in a car park in the middle of South Gyle, it does not need to move. The drain happens right there. Tricky to pin down? By Marks & Spencer or a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so ring.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep it off then ring. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout City of Edinburgh and within South Gyle — once you stop, turn off then ring, if it has run.