AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Townhead, and What to Do Next
One thing counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has run afterwards. Out in Back O Loch or here in Townhead, an unrun motor should stay that way. Leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Townhead. Already started? Pull over once you safely can, then switch everything off. It's a bigger job, yet step one does not change.
Below: the cases our technicians meet, wherever in East Dunbartonshire. Choose yours.
At the pump around Townhead: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the pump, holding the bottle, you spot the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. It might be the Shell, or the Gulf, or a different station around Townhead.
The point: of all places to notice, this is the best. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up just to move away from the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed away gets cleared right at the petrol pump.
At home around Townhead with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had been lit for days. A bottle bought at the garage, tipped in on the drive — and it's only at the recycling that the cap got a second look. It takes place on drives just off Townhead as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of the tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, since it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Put your keys in the house tonight — otherwise someone may drive it away first thing — then call us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, be it in Townhead or Barleybank. The pumping kit works quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Townhead?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two after the fill. Maybe heading to Glasgow, under 10 miles away, or simply along Castle Court.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. The injection pump and each injector get it too on a longer trip, after the fuel filter and lines have it. More driving, more restarts: further it goes.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the first job — then switch it off. Services further along can wait: from the M80, under 3 miles out of Townhead, take the first junction. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. About what distance did it go? Tell us when you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have had this vehicle barely a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right next to your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across East Dunbartonshire.
In short: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those depend on whether it has run. Work on the vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under rental or company agreements.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Leave the vehicle off while the reply arrives, whether you are parked at Lenzie or near Kirkintilloch Baptist Church.
Townhead: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think it did. A slight ammonia whiff hangs near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Hillhead.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler never reach your motor at all. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Turning on the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would suck it in.
Do this: act as though it got in, and don't start the motor. Ring with what you saw: we'd rather confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your engine has been run.
The common ground in each Townhead AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere the vehicle is — Lion and Star's car park, a street beside Ebenezer Hall, a drive, a filling station — the van gets there and asks for the fluid, the amount, plus if the engine has been run. Replies shape the work; the price follows on the call whilst nobody has set off yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why a full flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Next comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Never started? Then roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. We make sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we go. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it's noticed soon, and the whole job is done where your car is. Paying comes that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Townhead and where it is
Townhead is a suburban area in East Dunbartonshire, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 59 metres, with views of the surrounding landscape. Townhead lies approximately 6 miles north of Glasgow, within commuting distance of the city centre. Townhead is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing, which reflects the area's urban setting. Townhead is close to nearby places such as Barleybank, Eastside, and Kirkintilloch, and is part of the wider Glasgow urban area.
AdBlue drains across East Dunbartonshire, Townhead included
As a residential suburb, Townhead has the same vans as the nearby towns — Kirkintilloch, Eastside — all the way across G postcodes. Telling us a G66 1 postcode pins you fastest of all.
No moving is required, be it parked centrally in Townhead or on a layby en route to Woodhead Park, and so keep it where it is. The drain happens on the spot. Ring and ask instead of guessing when you are close to War Memorial, near a border, or somewhere tricky to explain.
Your situation, in one line
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle that way and phone. Run already: pull over, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Townhead or wherever across East Dunbartonshire.