AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Wellow, and What to Do Next
Everything turns on one detail: whether your engine has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started so far? Then keep the car like that, whether your vehicle sits — Wellow or Littlefield. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush plus a drain, done right where the car stands around Wellow. When your engine has been run, pull in somewhere safe first, then switch it off. Step one remains unchanged, even though the work is bigger.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere around Lincolnshire you happen to be.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Wellow forecourt
Only at this point, nozzle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Possibly you are at the Asda, possibly at the JET, maybe somewhere else around Wellow.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. No pump has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays just in your tank.
Freeing the petrol pump is no excuse to run it — and so don't get back in. Three things: a shove into a bay with the attendants assisting, the receipt saved, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the petrol pump is fine when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Wellow drive?
On your dash, a warning had shown all week. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Driveways near Ainslie Street get it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops low in your tank and waits. A night standing alters nothing.
Put the keys indoors overnight — or a person might drive it away first thing — then phone us. We drain it on your driveway, whether that's around Wellow or out in Grimsby. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road around Wellow with AdBlue in a diesel
A mile or two beyond filling up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Somewhere along Welholme Road or heading towards Kingston upon Hull — under 25 miles away.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Distance sets how deep it goes: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. It goes deeper with every mile driven and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. On the M180, under 15 miles from Wellow, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No trial restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Roughly how far did it gone? Tell us as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Lincolnshire, no one is safe from it.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on whether it's run. The owner frequently has to sign off any work, under many rental and company agreements.
Settling it before the van arrives is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. If you are stuck in the car park outside Grimsby Town, or by The Smethurst Memoria, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Wellow: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Which cap came off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Welholme Academy, or on a friend's drive in East Marsh.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no damage to the motor. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in that tank would be sucked in by turning on your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it went in, then keep your engine off. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean beats emptying one once it's been run — so ring and describe to us what you noticed.
What every AdBlue drain around Wellow has in common
No matter the case, a single opening applies. Three questions are asked when our engineers reach the car — at a filling station, a drive, a road beside St Augustine of Hippo or the car park outside Millfields Hotel Bar: the liquid, the quantity, and whether it has been started. Your price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the job.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out unaided; that's why a full flush, after this drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in once your filter is cleaned or replaced, and your car is then checked. If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Firing it up comes at the end. We make sure it runs properly on new diesel before we leave. Long-term damage is very unusual if it is caught soon, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes included in plenty of policies.
About Wellow itself
Wellow is a suburban area in northern Lincolnshire, situated near the coast and approximately 16 miles from Kingston upon Hull. Wellow has a relatively low elevation of around 7 metres above sea level, and its location near the Humber Estuary has influenced its development. Wellow is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting its history of residential growth in the region.
Wellow and Lincolnshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Wellow shares its vans with the nearby places — Weelsby, Holme Hill — all the way through DN postcodes. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning DN32 0.
Parked en route to People's Park, or bang in the centre of Wellow, your car remains put — there is no need to move it anywhere. The van empties it where it stands. Awkward to explain? Close to Grimsby Amateur Boxing Club or a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
The one-line version
Engine not started: ring, leaving it switched off. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Wellow and anywhere around Lincolnshire on 0333 366 0103.