AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Totley Rise, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on one fact: if your engine has started since the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Not run yet? Then keep the car that way, whether your car sits — Totley Rise or New Totley. Call 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. In Totley Rise, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. Where the engine has been run, stop safely first, then turn it off. It's a bigger job, though stage one does not change.
Wherever around South Yorkshire it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Totley Rise forecourt
Imagine it: standing by the pump, holding the bottle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Possibly you're at the Esso, possibly at the JET, maybe somewhere else in Totley Rise.
The point: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. No pump has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue stays only inside the tank.
Clearing the petrol pump is no excuse to run it — so do not get back in. Three jobs: a shove into a space with the staff helping, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Totley Rise drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the drive. It happens on driveways just off Woodland Place as commonly as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing changes nothing.
Next: stop any early move by keeping your keys in the house, then phone us. We drain it on your drive, whether that is in Totley Rise or out in Bradway Bank. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Totley Rise: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard arrived a short way after the fill. Somewhere along Queen Victoria Road or else on the road towards Sheffield — under 10 miles away.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Totley Rise sits under 10 miles from the M1; on it, pull off at the next junction instead of pressing on for the services. It will not have cleared, so there's no point restarting to check. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've only had this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you didn't know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in South Yorkshire.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or unrun — plus one further step. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under plenty of rental and fleet contracts.
Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at Dore & Totley, or near Totley Rise Methodist Church? Keep the car off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Totley Rise?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Maybe at a friend's drive in Upper Bradway, or in a rush by Bradway Primary School on the school run.
The upshot: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the filler. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Starting the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will suck it in.
Assume it was put in, and never turn your engine. Checking a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats emptying one after it has been run — so phone then describe to us what you noticed.
The common ground in each Totley Rise AdBlue drain
The job begins identically, whichever your case. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it is on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside Tunnel Tap or a side street close to English Martyrs Chapel, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if the motor has run. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told our price, and those replies decide the work too.
Draining your tank comes first, then a careful flush — more important with urea than after petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go on their own, however long it sits. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Where the motor has not run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before our engineers leave. Lasting damage is very unusual if it's spotted early, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Totley Rise, briefly
Totley Rise is a suburban area situated near the River Sheaf in South Yorkshire, with Totley Rise being close to several nearby places including Bradway Bank and Totley Brook. Totley Rise has a mix of semi-detached housing and is located approximately 5 miles from Sheffield, at an elevation of around 169 metres. Totley Rise is part of the larger Sheffield urban area, with Abbeydale Park nearby. Totley Rise has a population of around 4714 people.
AdBlue drains around Totley Rise, and across South Yorkshire too
Being a residential suburb, Totley Rise shares its vans with the surrounding places — Abbeydale Park, Totley Brook — right across S postcodes. A postcode starting S17 4 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Clay Wood, or bang in the heart of Totley Rise, the car stays put — there's no need to move it at all. Our van empties it where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Totley Library or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and call. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Totley Rise or wherever in South Yorkshire.