Telscombe Cliffs: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Then leave the engine off — and your ignition as well. Water with urea dissolved in it: that is AdBlue. It does not burn, it doesn't mix with diesel, and the damage it does begins when the system draws it in. If the engine hasn't run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is generally drained and thoroughly rinsed where your car stands in Telscombe Cliffs. Call 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in your diesel tank in Telscombe Cliffs
To do:
- Pull the keys out, and so no one switches the ignition on.
- Put the hazards on if you're anywhere close to moving traffic.
- So you can tell us which liquid it was and roughly how much, save the till receipt or the empty bottle.
- Call us from where you are. A postcode starting BN10 7, or the name of the nearest street, gets our van to you without a search.
Not to do:
- Do not start your motor, even for a moment to move the car.
- Plenty of diesels run their fuel pump the moment your ignition comes on, so leave the vehicle off.
- Don't top up with diesel to thin it. AdBlue does not dilute in diesel; it separates out.
- Even a short way along Telscombe Cliffs Way is too far to drive the car.
- Beside the road, don't try draining it on your own.
Rolling your vehicle off the pumps is a job for attendants to help with, wherever Telscombe Cliffs forecourt you are on, the Texaco included. Stopped on your own drive? Then it remains just as it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank, and what it does there
Made for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in your engine. From a separate reservoir it is fed directly to your exhaust, treating what your motor lets out. A fuel pump is not made to cope with it, and AdBlue was never intended to go through one.
Tipped in with the diesel, it keeps separate rather than mixing — quite different from fuel. Heavier than diesel, it sinks and collects below it — the very spot the pickup sucks from. The first thing the fuel system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a motor that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Telscombe last night, and has not been started since, is still the straightforward case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of the tank, and nothing has sucked it in.
Two kinds of damage follow from there. As its water goes, the urea left behind crystallises, and the crystals block filters and settle in fine passages. And it's corrosive to some of the metals a fuel system is made from, so it keeps running on the components it gets to for as long as it stays there. By daybreak, a vehicle parked around Telscombe Cliffs with AdBlue in its lines gets worse; where it's just in the tank, nothing changes. The water in it causes harm of its own: your high-pressure pump and your injectors rely on diesel to lubricate them, and water offers them nothing.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is commonly worse
A fault of thin fuel is what you get from fuelling a diesel with petrol at the Esso. No harm comes as long as it stays put, mixed into your diesel — only when your motor works on it.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the liquid as such is simply the wrong one. It doesn't burn, so it can't just be run through. Crystals and corrosion stay through the following fill, and AdBlue separates again out of the diesel, so thinning it won't work. That is why the flush matters more, and turning the key "to see" does more harm here than almost any other slip — in Peacehaven Heights or the centre of Telscombe Cliffs equally.
The good news is the same as with petrol. If your engine has not run, the AdBlue is still inside the tank, and your tank is the easiest part of a fuel system to clear, wherever in East Sussex the vehicle is sitting.
Telscombe Cliffs: how AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank
It is not on purpose. Plenty of vehicles keep the AdBlue cap alongside the diesel inlet, now and then under a single flap, and mixing them up is easy in poor light. A bottle picked up while heading home and tipped in outside the house, instead of at the filling station, is the typical route.
The ways it takes place are few and familiar. A warning light comes on during the school run, and the top-up happens in a hurry outside Telscombe Cliffs Academy. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off South Coast Road. Otherwise, after dark by Telscombe Tavern, the vehicle gets refilled by a driver opening that flap the first time.
Hired cars, brand-new vehicles, fleet motors, or the second car in a home with both fuels: the least known cars get it the most. Keep it switched off: that is the first step to an identical mistake, wherever in Telscombe Cliffs or the remainder of East Sussex you happen to be.
Already started your engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank around Telscombe Cliffs?
If so, the AdBlue is no longer in your tank. It has been drawn through the filter and your lines, and if your motor ran for any time, it has reached the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors.
Rough running, smoke, lost power, dashboard lights or cutting out: each may appear, maybe midway across Telscombe Cliffs or coming back from Howard Park. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and do not restart it to check. More of that is pulled through with each start.
If you were on the M23, under 25 miles from Telscombe Cliffs, come off at the next exit and stop somewhere sensible rather than pressing on.
A quick hop across Telscombe Cliffs to the car park by Telscombe Cliffs Community Church is one matter; heading for Brighton and Hove, under 10 miles away, is something else, because each mile pushes the AdBlue deeper in. So mileage counts. Tell us about how far it had come.
There's more to clean out once the motor has been run, and our engineers do all of it where the vehicle has come to a stop. Very seldom does it leave lasting damage when it's spotted early.
What draining AdBlue from a diesel involves in Telscombe Cliffs
The car remains where it is, whether that's a road near Telscombe Parish Hall, a driveway, a layby or a forecourt in Telscombe Cliffs, and the van travels to it. The job depends on three answers, and our engineers get first — which fluid went in, the quantity, and if your engine has turned over.
Next, draining your tank right there removes the contaminated diesel along with the AdBlue in one go. With AdBlue, more so than with petrol, the flush matters: the fuel system is flushed all the way through because what remains will not wash away by itself. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Most of these jobs are a half-hour job once we arrive, provided your motor has not run. The pumps are explosion-proof, safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Bleeding your system with clean diesel comes at the end. At that point our technicians start it and you set off, whether from a parking bay outside Newhaven Town or a driveway in Telscombe Cliffs. The test before our engineers go is that it runs correctly on fresh diesel. Because the job is done in full where your car is, a garage never comes into it. The insurer will want an engineer's report and the VAT invoice — both yours afterwards.
About Telscombe Cliffs, briefly
Telscombe Cliffs is a village situated on the southeastern coast of England, in East Sussex, with an elevation of 32 metres above sea level. Telscombe Cliffs lies approximately 5.9 miles east of Brighton and Hove, and is near the towns of Peacehaven, East Saltdean, and Saltdean. Telscombe Cliffs has a population of around 2419 residents, who mostly live in detached houses. Telscombe Cliffs is also about 49.5 miles south of London.
Telscombe Cliffs and East Sussex: AdBlue drains across the area
Peacehaven, East Saltdean and Saltdean are among the places around Telscombe Cliffs that the same vans reach, together with most of East Sussex beyond, throughout the BN postcode area. Close to a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
Telscombe Cliffs is a coastal village, and an on-site drain suits it: whether your car is on a home drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt, our technicians drain it where it stands, and so it never needs to be moved to us.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right around Telscombe Cliffs
There is no honest single quote, because the jobs aren't the same. What changes the cost is, firstly, whether the motor has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue got in; and after that where the vehicle is and whether a van can reach it safely, which is simpler on an open drive than in a tight space behind Peacehaven Mosque.
That's why each call from Telscombe Cliffs starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what was put in, how much, and whether it has run. Their replies shrink a range down to a single figure.
Before anyone sets off, you are told our quote by phone. And payment is on the day, by card or by phone, with nothing in advance. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies, so it pays to look at yours before the van gets there.
Still alongside your car around Telscombe Cliffs?
Then, do nothing — that's the best move available. Keys out, motor off, ignition off. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, across Telscombe Cliffs or wherever in East Sussex, once you call 0333 366 0103 saying it was AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and whether the engine ran.