Teemore: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your motor has been run since it got in. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle that way, wherever your car is — Teemore or Donagh. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. In Teemore, such a case is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. When your engine has run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn the vehicle off. Step one remains the same, even though the work is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in County Fermanagh it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Teemore forecourt
You're at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it the nearest petrol station, another forecourt nearby or somewhere else around Teemore, the case is the same.
What it means: this is the best location to find out. No pump has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue sits just inside your tank.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs freeing. Phone us from the forecourt after your car is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and keep the receipt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Teemore
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the driveway. Drives near Heugh Road get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? As long as the vehicle has not moved since, it is close to the forecourt case. On the floor of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Your move: keys in the house, so no one takes the car off first thing. After that, phone. In Derryvore or here around Teemore, the draining is done on your drive. Our equipment works quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
Teemore: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your engine was running roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Somewhere along South Crescent or heading to Armagh — under 50 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through the system. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it too on a longer run, once the fuel filter and pipework have it. It travels further with every mile covered and each restart.
Do this: stop anywhere safe, then switch the engine off. Teemore sits over 50 miles from the M77; there, come off at the next junction rather than pressing on to the services. It won't have cleared, and so there's no point restarting to find out. Call, saying how far the vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
It is a car you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the two fillers are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you are across County Fermanagh, any motorist could slip up.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Do this: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us second, since settling it beforehand saves time. Hanging on for an answer in the car park outside the nearest station, or beside the centre? Leave the car off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Teemore?
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think it did. Which cap came off, you can't say; but the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Newtownbutler.
In short: spillage near the filler leaves your engine unharmed. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Your move: act as if it did, and don't start the engine. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clear tank checked counts as a better outcome than a run one emptied.
The common ground in every Teemore AdBlue drain
The work opens identically, whatever the situation. We come to the car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street close to a street just off the centre, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and whether your engine has been run. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear our quote, and those answers shape the work too.
A thorough flush comes after the drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, because deposits build up and certain metals are attacked, and none of it rinses out unaided. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit from the moment our engineers get there.
Our technicians fire it up last. Before our technicians go, it is checked to confirm it runs properly on clean diesel. Long-term damage is very rare when it's caught soon, and the whole job is done where your car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Teemore and where it is
Teemore is a small locality in County Fermanagh, situated inland at an elevation of 54 metres. Teemore lies near the villages of Derryvore, Derrylin, and Kinawley, and is approximately 37.8 miles from Armagh. Teemore has a population of around 528 people, predominantly living in detached housing.
AdBlue drains across County Fermanagh, Teemore included
As a small village, Teemore shares its vans with the nearby towns — Kinawley, Derrylin — right through BT postcodes. Quickest of all: a BT92 9 postcode for your location.
Central Teemore or a layby near the green space at the edge of the village: either way it is, the car doesn't need to move at all for us. Wherever it stands, that is where it gets drained. Assuming won't help near the far end of the built-up part, on a border or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, ring then keep it off. Started already? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, in Teemore and County Fermanagh, on 0333 366 0103.