Tile Cross: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine run since the AdBlue was put in? That single point settles nearly everything else from here. Wherever your car is — Bacons End, Tile Cross — don't run a motor that has not run yet. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine both off. In Tile Cross, that is typically drained and flushed where it stands. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It is a larger job, though step one does not change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across West Midlands it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Tile Cross forecourt
Just now, nozzle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Perhaps you are at the Esso, maybe at the Texaco, perhaps somewhere else around Tile Cross.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. Nothing has drawn it in, so the AdBlue sits just inside the tank.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs freeing. Phone us from the forecourt once your car is in a space — the staff will help roll it — then save the bottle. Stuck by the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt safe, so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Tile Cross
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the drive. Right off St Giles Road is not different from any other place.
The upshot: zero driving since leaves it nearly equal to finding it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and remains there, however long the night.
Keep your keys in the house overnight — otherwise someone may drive it off at breakfast — then call us. Out in Kitts Green or here around Tile Cross, the drain is done on your driveway. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Tile Cross?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Shirestone Road, perhaps, or the way to Birmingham — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Past the filter, through the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: further it travels.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then turn your engine off. Services further along are too far: from the M6, under 3 miles out of Tile Cross, use the first junction. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Call, and say how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just had this car a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is right by the diesel inlet — news to you. Wherever you happen to be across West Midlands, any motorist could be caught.
Put simply: an extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it has run. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Do this: hire firm or fleet manager first, us next, because settling it early saves time. If you're stranded in the car park at Marston Green, or by St Peter, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Tile Cross?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. Lighter, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear memory of which cap. Sound familiar? Maybe on a friend's driveway in Lea Hall, or rushing outside The Shirestone Academy on the school run.
The point: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the filler. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Assume it got in, and don't turn your key. Describe what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at is a happier result than an already-run one drained.
Tile Cross: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Anywhere your vehicle stands — White Hart's car park, a street beside Our Lady Help of Christians, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and we ask about the liquid, the amount, and if the engine has been run. Answers shape the work; the quote comes on the call whilst no one has left yet.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The final step is starting the car. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it is running correctly, and then we leave. When it is noticed quickly, the vehicle very seldom has long-term damage, and the whole job happens where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. Worth remembering: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, so a check of your documents as we travel is worthwhile.
About Tile Cross
Tile Cross is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated approximately 5.8 miles east of Birmingham city centre. Tile Cross sits at an elevation of around 101 metres, near the communities of Kitts Green, Garretts Green, and Fordbridge. Tile Cross is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's development as a residential suburb. Tile Cross remains a settled community within the larger Birmingham urban area, about 96.7 miles northwest of London.
AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Tile Cross included
Tile Cross is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Garretts Green and Fordbridge among them, across the B postcode area. Quickest of all: a B33 0 postcode to show your location.
Central Tile Cross or a lay-by near Tile Cross Park: wherever it is, the car never needs to move at all for this drain. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. Phone and ask instead of guessing when you're by Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, near a boundary, or somewhere awkward to explain.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep the car off and ring. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever it is, in Tile Cross and West Midlands, on 0333 366 0103.