AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Turfdown: What Now?
Everything turns on a single detail: whether your motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Wherever your car stands — Cutmadoc, Turfdown — don't run an engine that hasn't been started yet. Leave your motor and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Turfdown. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same first move.
Anywhere around Cornwall it took place, one of the cases below matches yours.
At the pump around Turfdown: AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, nozzle still in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. It might be the Morrisons, or the Asda, or a different forecourt around Turfdown.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. No pump has drawn it in, and so the AdBlue stays just inside the tank.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Get the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a space, save the bottle, then phone us from there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the petrol pump.
Turfdown, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it was just by the bin that the cap got a second look. Just off Turfdown Roundabout is not different from any other place.
Meaning? As long as the car has not moved since, it's close to the pump case. As it is unable to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in your tank and stays. One night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it around Turfdown or Fletchersbridge. Late-night empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Turfdown?
Topped up, drove away, and before long the motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Maybe heading to Truro, under 25 miles away, or simply down Turfdown Road.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue in by now. Past the fuel filter, through the pipework, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and each injector. More miles, more restarts: further it travels.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, and turn the engine off. Leave at the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, over 50 miles from Turfdown. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Phone, and say how far the car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
It is a motor you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap sits just next to the diesel. Anyone, anywhere around Cornwall, could make it.
Meaning? Whatever applies above counts here — run or unrun — plus one extra step. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us second, since settling it early saves time. Waiting for a reply at the car park outside Bodmin Parkway, or beside Castle Canyke? Leave the engine off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Turfdown?
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can truthfully say. A faint ammonia-like whiff lingers near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. A rushed stop by the gates of St Petroc's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, or a call to a friend in Cooksland: either fits.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to your engine. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Your move: act as if it got in, and don't start the motor. Ring us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Turfdown shares these stages
The work opens the same way, whichever the case. We come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at the pub in the village or a side street near New Life Church, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if your engine has run. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers shape the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not wash out unaided; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Clean diesel is put in after the fuel filter is cleaned or changed, and the car is finally tested. If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Finally, we fire it up. Our technicians make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel before leaving. When it's spotted soon, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of policies include misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Turfdown, for a moment
Turfdown is a small locality in inland Cornwall, situated approximately 113 metres above sea level. Turfdown lies near several nearby settlements, including Fletchersbridge and Carminow Cross, and is around 21 miles from the city of Truro. Turfdown has a population of around 579 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
Turfdown and Cornwall: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a small village, Turfdown has the same vans as the nearby towns — Newton, Carminow Cross — right across PL postcodes. Telling us a PL30 4 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Bodmin Rugby Club or in a car park in the middle of Turfdown, it does not need to move. Our van empties it in place. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to Dragon Leisure Centre, near a border, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
The one-line version
Motor not started: ring, leaving it alone. Run already: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Turfdown or anywhere in Cornwall.