AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Trottick? Keep It Switched Off
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Then keep the engine off — and your ignition as well. Urea dissolved in water is what AdBlue is. The trouble begins once it is pulled through your lines — it won't ignite, and it will not blend with diesel. If the engine hasn't run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is generally emptied and thoroughly rinsed where your car stands in Trottick. First, call us on 0333 366 0103.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Trottick: the first few minutes
To do:
- Pocket your keys, which stops anyone turning the electrics on.
- Put your hazards on if you are anywhere close to moving traffic.
- So you can give us which fluid it was and about what quantity, keep the till receipt or the empty bottle.
- Our van finds you fastest with a postcode starting DD4 9, or simply the name of a street nearby, so call from the car.
Do not:
- Do not start the motor, even for a moment to shift your car.
- Turning the key to ignition by itself starts the pump running on plenty of diesels. Avoid it.
- Pouring in more diesel does not help: AdBlue settles out rather than blending.
- Even a short distance down Old Glamis Road is too far to drive it.
- Beside the road, don't try draining it yourself.
At a forecourt around Trottick, whether it is the Asda or another one, ask the staff to help you push your car clear of the pump. At your own driveway, do not touch it at all.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
Not your engine but the exhaust is where AdBlue belongs. Its own reservoir keeps it, and from there it is fed into the exhaust, where it treats the fumes. No part in an injection pump is made for this liquid — and none of it was intended to go that way.
Fuel mixes; AdBlue, once tipped in, won't. The behaviour is not at all like fuel's. It's heavier than diesel, so it sinks and gathers at the bottom of that tank, which is where the pickup pulls fuel from. The first thing the system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a motor that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Barns of Claverhouse last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of your tank, and nothing has pulled it in.
Two kinds of damage come from there. Crystals and corrosion. As the water evaporates, it strands urea that hardens in filters and narrow channels; and, because it eats at certain metals, every part it touches suffers for as long as it stays in there. Lines carrying AdBlue mean harm by morning for a vehicle sitting in Trottick. Only in your tank, it stays the same. Water protects nothing. The injection pump and each injector need diesel running past them, so the water part harms them by itself.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is regularly worse
Top up a diesel with petrol in error over at the JET, and this problem is thinned fuel. It mixes with your diesel, and while it's inside the tank it causes no damage; the harm comes from running the engine on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is another problem: not thin fuel, yet no fuel at all. It cannot simply be run through, because it does not burn. Nor can it be watered down, because it separates back out — and the next fill won't rinse away crystals or corrosion. So the flush counts more with AdBlue, and trying your engine "to see", in the centre of Trottick or out in Maryfield, does more harm than almost any other slip.
As with petrol, there's good news. Never run? Then the AdBlue waits just in the tank, the easiest section of the whole system to clear, anywhere your car has come to rest around Dundee City.
How AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank around Trottick
After dark, two caps side by side — the AdBlue cap and the diesel one, now and then under a single flap — can appear the same. Nobody means it; plenty of designs invite it. It usually takes place outside the house, from a container bought en route home, rather than at the forecourt.
It tends to take place in a couple of familiar ways. The refill is rushed outside the local primary school, because the dash lit up with a warning as the children were dropped off. After work, a container is tipped in on a drive close to Millburn Gardens. Else, after dark by the pub in the village, your car gets topped up by a driver using that flap the first time.
The least known cars see it the most — rentals, new ones, company cars, and the other car in a family with both fuel types. An identical slip, an identical first response — keep it switched off — anywhere you are around Trottick or the remainder of Dundee City.
Already started the engine with AdBlue in your diesel tank in Trottick?
Then the AdBlue has left that tank. Via the fuel filter, through the lines, and — with any running time — on to the high-pressure pump and each injector: that is where it travels.
Perhaps returning from Trottick Mill Ponds Local Nature Reserve, or midway across Trottick, your engine may run rough, smoke, drop pace, light up the dash or stall. Stop when safe. Turn off. Keep the car off rather than restarting it to check. With each start, more of that is pulled through.
On the M90, under 25 miles from Trottick, the next junction is where to leave, and anywhere sensible is where to park — not driving on.
Distance counts: every mile carries the AdBlue further in, so heading for Dundee, under 3 miles away, gives a far bigger job than hopping across Trottick to the car park by SoccerWorld. Let us know about how far it had come.
We do all of the flushing where the car has come to a stop, and once your engine has run there is more of it. If it's spotted quickly, long-term damage is very rare.
Trottick: how AdBlue is emptied from a diesel
A road beside McTaggart Gymnastics Centre, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt: anywhere the vehicle has come to rest around Trottick, our technicians come to it. What was put in, about the quantity, and if the motor has been run: our technicians check first, because those decide the job.
Then the tank is emptied where your car waits, and so the polluted fuel and the AdBlue come out together. Residue from AdBlue will not wash away by itself, and so the fuel system gets a full flush, which counts much more with urea than for petrol. After that, your filter: cleaned, or replaced when it has to be. Then clean diesel, and then a test of the vehicle. The majority of these jobs are a half-hour visit once our technicians turn up, if the engine hasn't run. Low-noise enough for use outside a house at night, and fine on a working forecourt, the pumps are explosion-proof.
Clean diesel goes in to prime the fuel system, and that's the final step. You drive off as soon as our technicians have started the car, and it makes no difference whether the car is on a drive in Trottick or in a space at Dundee. It's tested on new diesel to be sure it runs smoothly before our technicians leave. Because the job is done in full where the vehicle is, a garage never comes into it. The insurer is likely to want an engineer's report and your VAT invoice — both yours once the job is done.
About Trottick
Trottick is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Dundee, situated near the coast in eastern Scotland. Trottick sits at an elevation of 67 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape and the nearby city of Dundee. Trottick is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the area's residential nature. Trottick is close to other nearby places, including Claverhouse, Downfield, and Baldovan.
AdBlue drains around Trottick and across Dundee City
The teams that answer AdBlue calls around Trottick also cover the locations around it, Claverhouse, Downfield and Baldovan among them, and most of Dundee City beyond, across the DD postcode area. Assuming doesn't help close to a border or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
Trottick is a residential suburb, 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 is, so it never needs to be shifted to us.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right around Trottick
Not one single figure could be honest, because every job is different. The cost changes first with how long, if at all, the engine has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that was put in. After that it rests on where your car is and whether our van can get to it safely, which is easier on an open driveway than in a tight gap behind St Columba's Church.
That's why every call from Trottick starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what was put in, how much, and whether it's run. Those answers narrow the range right down to one number.
Our quote is quoted during the call, before a van leaves; settling up comes on the day, by card or by phone, and nothing upfront. Misfuelling cover comes with many insurance policies, so it pays to look at yours before the van arrives.
In Trottick and still alongside the car?
Then the most helpful thing you can do is nothing to your car. Keys out, engine off, ignition off. Tell us it was AdBlue, about what quantity, and whether the engine ran, on 0333 366 0103. After that Petrol in Diesel takes over, across Trottick or wherever within Dundee City.