Tavern Quay: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue got in? That single point settles nearly everything else from here. Not run so far? Then leave it like that, wherever your vehicle is — Tavern Quay or Isle of Dogs. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where your car stands around Tavern Quay. Pull over the moment you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. Step one remains the same, even if the work grows.
Wherever around Greater London it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
At the petrol pump in Tavern Quay: AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Perhaps you are at the Tesco, possibly at the Shell, maybe somewhere else in Tavern Quay.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to free up the pump. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle sits in a bay — the staff will help roll it — and keep the bottle. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
Tavern Quay, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Drives near Rope Street get it as much as any other street.
In short: if your vehicle hasn't been driven since, it is nearly equal to finding out at the forecourt. At the bottom of the tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop an early drive by putting your keys in the house, then phone us. Out in Surrey Quays or right here around Tavern Quay, the draining is done on your drive. The equipment works quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Tavern Quay?
A mile or two after filling up, your motor started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. Maybe driving for London, under 3 miles away, or simply down Boat Lifter Way.
What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Distance decides how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: deeper it goes.
Do this: stop somewhere safe, then switch your engine off. On the M11, under 10 miles from Tavern Quay, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Tell us know the distance covered as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have just driven the vehicle for days. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, anywhere around Greater London, could do it.
In short: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on if it's run. Any work on the car often needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet terms.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our engineers turn up than after. If you are stranded in the car park outside Canada Water, or by Surrey Docks Watersports Centre, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Tavern Quay?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. A slight ammonia-like whiff hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. It might have been on a friend's drive in Cubitt Town, or in a rush by Deptford Park Primary School on the school run.
In short: a spill near your filler leaves your engine unharmed. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Turning on the car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would draw it in.
Next: assume it got in, then keep your motor off. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
The common ground in every Tavern Quay AdBlue drain
Every case gets the same start to the job. We come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Moby Dick or a side street near James Walker, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and whether your motor has run. Replies shape the job; the price follows on the call while nobody has set off yet.
Draining that tank comes first, then a full flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, however long you wait. Finally are the filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; fresh diesel; and a check of the vehicle. If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before we go. When it's spotted quickly, the car very seldom 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 upfront. Check your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Tavern Quay, briefly
Tavern Quay is a locality in the London Borough of Southwark, situated on the southern bank of the River Thames at an elevation of around 6 metres. Tavern Quay sits adjacent to Surrey Quays and Rotherhithe, with Millwall to the east, and is characterized by its lakeside setting and predominantly flat-type housing. Tavern Quay is located approximately 2.7 miles from central London, making it a relatively close residential area to the city centre.
Tavern Quay and Greater London: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout SE postcodes, the teams serving Tavern Quay — a neighbourhood — work surrounding places too, Rotherhithe and Millwall among them. The location is quickest from a postcode beginning SE16 7.
Centre of Tavern Quay or a lay-by towards Podium Garden: either way it is, the vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for this drain. Wherever it sits, that's where it gets emptied. Phone and check rather than guess when you're by Osprey Estate hall, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Keep it that way then phone. Whatever line fits, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Greater London and in Tavern Quay — once you pull over, turn off and ring, if it's run.