What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Tye Green
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether your motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle like that, whether your car is — Tye Green or Black Notley. Leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Tye Green. Where the engine has run, pull in safely first, then switch the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Further down: the cases our engineers see, anywhere across Essex. Pick yours.
On a Tye Green forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the cap you opened wasn't the right one. Whether TotalEnergies, Texaco or anywhere else in Tye Green, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the best location to find out. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Ask the attendants to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home in Tye Green with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had shown all week. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened at the driveway. Driveways close to Braintree Road get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? Provided your vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops low inside that tank and waits. A night parked alters none of that.
Keep your keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person might take it off first thing — then call us. Long Green or Tye Green: wherever your drive is, that is where it is cleared. Our equipment runs quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Tye Green?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. Mill Lane, say, or the way towards Chelmsford — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: the system has pulled the AdBlue in. It's been through your filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Exit by the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M11, under 25 miles from Tye Green. It won't have cleared, and so there is no sense restarting to check. About what distance had it go? Tell us as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a motor you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Essex.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or not — and one further step. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Stuck near St Barnabas or outside Cressing until someone replies, the car stays turned off the whole time.
Tye Green: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. A slight ammonia-like whiff hangs near the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Cressing, or in a rush outside Cressing Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills around the filler never touch the motor at all. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not fire it up. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Tye Green: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere the vehicle stands — Mulberry Tree's car park, a street by TK Maxx, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks for the fluid, the amount, plus whether the engine has been run. Those answers determine the work, and you hear our price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals used in fuel systems, so it won't wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last are the filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of your car. The majority of unstarted cars are a half-hour job after the moment we get there.
Our engineers fire it up last. We confirm it runs smoothly on new diesel before we go. We do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very uncommon if it has been noticed soon. Payment is that day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. It is worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your documents while we travel is worthwhile.
About Tye Green itself
Tye Green is a small village in Essex, situated inland at an elevation of 66 metres, approximately 39 miles from London. Tye Green lies near the cities of Chelmsford and other nearby places such as Long Green and Galleys Corner. Tye Green has a population of around 852 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Tye Green is surrounded by other local areas including Hawbush Green.
Tye Green and Essex: AdBlue drains across the area
Tye Green is a rural village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Galleys Corner and Hawbush Green among them, across the CM postcode area. Your location comes clearest from a postcode beginning CM77 8.
No moving is required, be it parked in the centre of Tye Green or in a lay-by heading to Notley Golf Course, so keep it put. Our engineers drain it where it is. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Cineworld or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In one line: your situation
Motor never started: phone, leaving it alone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Tye Green and anywhere around Essex on 0333 366 0103.