What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in West Ealing
Everything turns on a single detail: if the motor has started since the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Out in Dormers Wells or right in West Ealing, an unstarted motor should remain that way. Leave the engine and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around West Ealing. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Greater London it happened.
On a West Ealing forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Be it Shell, Esso or anywhere else in West Ealing, the case is the same.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so don't get back in. Phone us from the forecourt after your car sits in a space — the staff will lend a hand to push it — and save the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed clear is drained right at the petrol pump.
At home in West Ealing with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Driveways close to Felix Road see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by putting the keys indoors, then phone us. We drain it on your drive, whether that is in West Ealing or out in Hanwell. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
West Ealing: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A mile or two beyond filling up, the motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. It might have been heading to Westminster, under 10 miles away, or simply along Tewkesbury Road.
Meaning? Your pump has taken the AdBlue in. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and lines first, then the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, then turn your engine off. Leave by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M4, under 3 miles from West Ealing. No trial restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Roughly what distance did it go? Tell us as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've only had the vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be around Greater London, any motorist could be caught.
Meaning? Whatever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one extra stage. The owner often has to sign off any work, under plenty of hire and company contracts.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Leave the car off as the reply comes, whether you are parked at the nearest station or close to Dean Hall Christian Church.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around West Ealing
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia lingers by your filler. The gates of St John's Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in West Acton.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different story. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the vehicle would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Assume it went in, and don't turn the engine. Ring with what you saw: we'd sooner find a clean tank than drain one once your motor has been run.
Every AdBlue drain around West Ealing shares these stages
Each case gets the same opening to the work. Anywhere your car stands — The Old Hat's car park, a road by Jamia Masjid UKIM, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and we ask about the fluid, the quantity, and if your motor has been run. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the answers shape the job.
Then that tank is cleared and the system cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Where the engine has not run, allow roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
Our engineers start it at the end. We check it runs correctly on new diesel before we go. Our technicians do the whole job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very rare when it has been spotted early. 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 look at yours while the van travels.
About West Ealing
West Ealing is a suburban area in the London Borough of Ealing, situated approximately 8.5 miles west of central London. West Ealing sits at an elevation of around 29 metres, with its residential landscape dominated by flat dwellings. West Ealing is close to neighbouring areas such as Hanwell, Ealing, and Greenford, and is home to a population of around 17,635 people. West Ealing has a mix of local shops and transport links, including a railway station.
West Ealing and Greater London: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout W postcodes, the vans covering West Ealing — a residential suburb — reach nearby towns too, Ealing and Greenford among them. Giving us your W13 0 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Centre of West Ealing or a layby towards Drayton Green: wherever it is, the car never needs to move at all for this drain. The van empties it where it stands. Assuming doesn't help beside Ealing Farmers' Market, on a county line or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
Your scenario, summed up
Engine never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Run already: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within West Ealing or anywhere across Greater London.