Wake Green: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of it turns on one fact: whether the motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Wherever your car stands — Sparkhill, Wake Green — never start an engine that has not run yet. Normally that is draining and thoroughly flushing it right there around Wake Green — and so leave your key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Stage one stays unchanged, even though the job grows.
Wherever across West Midlands it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Wake Green forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it Pace, Shell or somewhere else around Wake Green, the case is the same.
The point: of all places to notice, this is the best. Nothing has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays just in your tank.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up only to move away from the petrol pump. Have the staff to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, save the bottle, then ring us right there. If it can't be moved, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home around Wake Green with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. Bought a container, tipped it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point checked the cap again, too late. Homes just off Yardley Wood Road are hit as often as everywhere else.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. At the floor of your tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by makes no difference.
Put the keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person may take it off at breakfast — and call us. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it in Wake Green or Moseley. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Wake Green: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe heading to Birmingham, under 5 miles away, or just down Shelsley Drive.
The point: the system has pulled AdBlue through already. Past your filter, through the lines, and — the more the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. More miles, more restarts: further it travels.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. On the Aston Expressway, under 5 miles from Wake Green, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone, and say what distance the car was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've only had the vehicle a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, its cap is just by your diesel inlet — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across West Midlands.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. The owner frequently needs to sign off any work, under many rental and company contracts.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since sorting it beforehand saves time. Keep the car switched off as the answer arrives, whether you're waiting at Moseley Village or close to St. Agnes.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Wake Green
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's drive in Kings Heath, or in a rush outside St Bernard's Catholic Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to your motor. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different story. Starting your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will draw it in.
Next: act as though it got in, then keep the motor off. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Wake Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work begins the same way, whatever the case. Forecourt, drive, Covered Wagon curry pub's car park or a road by Blue Plaque: George H. Lanchester — our van comes to your car, and three answers follow: which liquid, what quantity, and if it has run. The price is given over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers set the work.
Then the tank is cleared and your system rinsed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our engineers make sure it runs correctly on clean diesel before we leave. We do the whole job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very uncommon if it has been noticed quickly. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. It is worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as you wait pays.
About Wake Green and where it is
Wake Green is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Rea and close to the city of Birmingham. Wake Green has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly composed of flats, and is located near other local areas such as Moseley and Springfield. Wake Green sits at an elevation of around 150 metres, and is approximately 3 miles from Birmingham city centre. Wake Green is also part of the larger West Midlands region, about 98 miles northwest of London.
Wake Green and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area
Over B postcodes, the vans serving Wake Green — a residential suburb — reach nearby places too, Showell Green and Springfield included. Giving us a B13 9 postcode pins you fastest of all.
No towing is needed, be it stopped in the centre of Wake Green or in a lay-by en route to Pickwick Cricket Club, so keep it put. The van drains it in place. Phone and check rather than guess when you're by Cascading Mountain (Wake Green Interchange), on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to explain.
Your scenario, in one line
If it has not run, ring then keep it that way. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across West Midlands and within Wake Green — after you stop, turn off then ring, if it has run.