Welbourn: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one detail: whether the motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Out in Fulbeck or right in Welbourn, an unrun motor should remain unrun. Normally that is draining and properly rinsing it on the spot around Welbourn — so keep your key and engine off then phone 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening move.
Compare your case to a situation from the ones below, wherever across Lincolnshire you are.
On a Welbourn forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Gulf, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else in Welbourn, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. No pump has drawn it in, and so the AdBlue sits only in your tank.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to free up the petrol pump. Get the staff to help pushing it into a space, hold on to the bottle, then phone us right there. Draining it right at the pump is fine if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Welbourn, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. Picked up a container, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap a second time, too late. It takes place on driveways just off The Green as commonly as anywhere.
The upshot: no miles since leaves this almost equal to finding it at the petrol pump. As it is unable to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night parked changes none of that.
Next: stop any early move by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. Our engineers drain it on your drive, whether that is around Welbourn or out in Leadenham. Late-night clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Welbourn: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Crosby Lane, perhaps, or the way towards Lincoln — a trip of under 15 miles.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Do this: pull up anywhere safe, then switch the engine off. Welbourn lies under 50 miles from the M1; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on to the services. No trial restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Let us hear the mileage covered as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
Seven days back, the car was new to you. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits just beside your diesel. Throughout Lincolnshire, no one is immune.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Any work on your car frequently needs the owner's approval under hire or fleet terms.
Settling it before the van arrives is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Stuck near Welbourn Village Hall or outside Ancaster until someone replies, the vehicle remains turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Welbourn?
Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think it did. A faint ammonia whiff lingers near the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Temple Bruer, or in a rush by The Welbourn Church of England Primary School on the school run.
The upshot: the motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the outside. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the vehicle will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not crank it. Phone and give the details: we would sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once your engine has run.
Welbourn: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, driveway, Joiners Arms's car park or a road by Welbourn Castle — our van comes to your car, and three answers come next: what liquid, which amount, and if it ran. Those answers decide this work, and you get the price by phone, before anyone sets off.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a full flush — more important after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Clean diesel is put in once the filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is then tested. Never started? Then about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Lastly, we start the car. Before our technicians go, it is checked to make sure it runs correctly on new diesel. If it is spotted early, the car very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Welbourn itself
Welbourn is a small village in Lincolnshire, situated approximately 11 miles south of Lincoln, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Welbourn sits in a low-lying area of the county, with an elevation of around 40 metres, and is near to the villages of Leadenham and Wellingore. Welbourn is a rural community with a population of around 674 residents, and is located within the East Midlands region, about 110 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Welbourn included
Being a rural village, Welbourn shares its vans with the surrounding places — Wellingore, Leadenham Park — all the way through LN postcodes. A postcode starting LN5 0 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Welbourn or a layby towards Windmill Plantation: wherever it is, the vehicle never needs to shift an inch for us. We drain the vehicle where it sits. Tricky to pin down? By St Chad's Church or a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
The one-line version
Engine never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Welbourn and anywhere around Lincolnshire on 0333 366 0103.