Standhill: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything hinges on one detail: whether your motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started so far? Then leave the car like that, whether your car is — Standhill or Falside. Usually that means draining and properly purging it on the spot in Standhill — and so leave the key and engine off then ring 0333 366 0103. When your engine has run, pull in safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. It's a bigger job, yet step one does not change.
Wherever across West Lothian it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the pump in Standhill: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Be it Morrisons, BP or somewhere else in Standhill, the case is identical.
In short: no better place to be to spot it. Still inside the tank, and no fuel drawn through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Have the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a space, hold on to the receipt, then phone us right there. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets drained right at the petrol pump.
Standhill, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dash had been warning you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd opened at the drive. Right off Inchcross is not less likely from anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of the tank sits where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing changes no difference.
Keep your keys in the house tonight — otherwise someone might drive it away at breakfast — and call us. In Whiteside or right here around Standhill, the drain is done on your driveway. Our pumping kit works quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Standhill: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Somewhere along Whitburn Road or else heading towards Dunfermline — under 15 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, and switch the engine off. Service stations further on can wait: on the M8, under a mile out of Standhill, use the next junction. No trial restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Call, saying how far your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've only had this car a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, anywhere across West Lothian, could do the same.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. Stranded by In Full Bloom or outside Bathgate till someone answers, your car stays turned off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Standhill
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think it did. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round your filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Sound familiar? A hurried stop by the gates of the local primary school, or a call to a friend in Bathgate: either fits.
Put simply: spillage round your filler leaves the motor no harm. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different story. Turning on the vehicle will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will suck it in.
Your move: act as if it did, and don't start your motor. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Standhill: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation gets the same opening to the job. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street close to Creamery Park, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if your motor has run. On the phone, before dispatch, you are told our price, and those answers decide the work too.
Then the tank is drained and the system purged 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. Last are your filter, flushed or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of your vehicle. Where the motor hasn't run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
Last, our technicians fire it up. Before our engineers leave, it's tested to be sure it runs properly on new diesel. If it is caught quickly, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Standhill itself
Standhill is a suburban area situated on the riverside in West Lothian, with an elevation of around 149 metres. Standhill lies near several smaller communities, including Whiteside, Paulville, and Windyknowe, and is approximately 14.7 miles from Dunfermline. Standhill has a population of around 3119 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Standhill is also relatively distant from major cities in England, with London being around 335.2 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Standhill and across West Lothian
Over EH postcodes, the vans covering Standhill — a residential suburb — reach surrounding places too, Paulville and Windyknowe among them. A postcode starting EH48 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No towing is required, whether parked in the centre of Standhill or in a layby en route to Meadow Park, so keep it where it is. The drain happens right there. Guessing doesn't help near Bathgate Partnership Centre, close to a county line or anywhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
Your scenario, in one line
Engine not started: ring, and leave it alone. Run by now: pull over, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Standhill or wherever across West Lothian.