AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Whissendine? Keep It Switched Off
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then leave the motor off — and the ignition as well. In plain terms, AdBlue is just urea in water. Being water-based, it will not ignite and won't blend with diesel; damage only comes once the pump begins pulling it. In Whissendine, AdBlue in a diesel tank found before your motor runs usually means a drain and a thorough flush, right where the vehicle is. Before you do anything else, ring 0333 366 0103.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in the diesel tank in Whissendine
Things to do:
- So nobody can turn the ignition on, pull the keys out.
- Close to moving traffic? Then put the hazard lights on.
- The empty bottle or your receipt tells us the product and the quantity, so do not throw it out.
- Ring right where you are. Say a LE15 7 postcode or the closest street name, and no one has to search for you.
Don't:
- Shifting your car just a short way is no reason to start the engine.
- Switching the key to ignition alone starts your pump running on plenty of diesels. Avoid it.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding extra fuel will not weaken it.
- Even a short distance up Cow Lane is too far to drive the vehicle.
- By the road, don't try draining it on your own.
Rolling your car off the pumps is a job for staff to help with, whichever Whissendine forecourt you are on, the BP or any other. On the drive, the vehicle remains exactly as it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
Meant for the exhaust, AdBlue has no place in your motor. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into your exhaust gas to fresh it. Not one side fits the other: urea does not belong in an injection pump, and an injection pump cannot deal with urea.
Fuel mixes; AdBlue, once tipped in, will not. Its behaviour is not at all like diesel's. The pickup takes fuel from the lowest part of that tank, and that's exactly where AdBlue settles: being denser than diesel, it sinks. The first thing the system pulls through, after it runs, is the AdBlue. So a vehicle that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Teigh last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of that tank, and nothing has sucked it in.
Two kinds of damage follow from there. It attacks some metals found in fuel components, working on any part it reaches until it is removed completely. And once the water goes, the urea forms crystals that clog filters and lodge in narrow passages. Lines holding AdBlue mean harm overnight for a car parked in Whissendine. Just inside the tank, it stays stable. Then there's the water: it brings no protection to the parts that rely on it most — the injection pump and every injector.
AdBlue in a diesel: why it is often worse than petrol
A fault of thin fuel is what you end up with from fuelling a diesel with petrol at the Essar. Mixed through your diesel and sitting still, it's no threat for now; using the motor does the damage.
The trouble with AdBlue in a diesel is a completely wrong liquid. It can't simply be run through, since it doesn't burn. Nor can it be thinned, because it splits back out — and the next tankful won't rinse away crystals or corrosion. So the flush counts more here, and turning your key "to see", in the heart of Whissendine or out in Edmondthorpe, does more harm than almost any other mistake.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Clearing a tank is the simplest part on a fuel system, and with no running, the AdBlue stays in it — wherever across Rutland the vehicle sits.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Whissendine: how it ends up there
After dark, two caps side by side — the AdBlue one and the diesel cap, occasionally under a single flap — may look the same. Nobody intends it; plenty of layouts allow it. A bottle bought when driving home and poured in outside the house, instead of at the filling station, is the typical route.
Usually, it occurs in one of a few familiar ways. Midway through the drop-off, the dashboard warns, and outside Whissendine Church of England Primary School the top-up is rushed. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off St Andrews Close. Otherwise, in dim light outside The White Lion Inn, the car gets refilled by a driver using that flap the first time.
Rented vehicles, brand-new cars, fleet motors, or the second car in a family with both fuels: the least known vehicles see it the most. Wherever you are in Whissendine or the remainder of Rutland, it's the same error and the same first answer: leave the vehicle off.
Started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank in Whissendine?
Then the AdBlue has left your tank. The filter and pipework have had it pulled through, and some running time carries it on to the high-pressure pump and every injector.
Watch for rough running, exhaust smoke, lost power, lights on your dash, or a cut-out — returning from Dunstall Plantations, say, or midway across Whissendine. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and don't restart the car to check. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
Exit the M1, under 25 miles from Whissendine, by the first junction and stop somewhere safe, rather than carrying on.
Each mile pushes the AdBlue further into the system. That's why a hop across Whissendine to park beside Whissendine Village Sign and a drive of under 25 miles for Leicester are such distinct jobs. Approximately how far had it come? Tell us.
There's more to clean out once the motor has run, and we do all of it where your car has come to a stop. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it's noticed early.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve around Whissendine?
We come to the vehicle, wherever it has stopped around Whissendine: a side street close to Whissendine Village Hall, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. Before anything else our technicians ask what was put in, about how much, and if the motor has been run, since those replies determine this work.
On the spot, the tank is then drained, and all of the polluted diesel and the urea leave at once. The fuel system is cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol, since what it leaves behind doesn't rinse out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once our technicians arrive. Our equipment is explosion-proof, so a busy filling station is no fault, and it is quiet enough for a residential street late at night.
Priming the system with new diesel comes last. You set off as soon as we have started the engine, and it makes no difference whether the car is on a drive around Whissendine or in a bay outside Oakham. We confirm it runs correctly on clean diesel before leaving. No workshop is required at any point, with the whole job done then and there. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report later on, which is what insurers want.
About Whissendine itself
Whissendine is a village situated in the county of Rutland, on the banks of a river, with an elevation of around 112 metres. Whissendine lies near the villages of Langham and Ashwell, and is approximately 16 miles from Leicester. Whissendine has a population of around 848 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Whissendine is about 88 miles north of London, in the East Midlands region.
AdBlue drains across Rutland, Whissendine included
Over the LE postcode area, the vans taking AdBlue jobs in Whissendine reach most of Rutland as well, Langham, Leesthorpe and Ashwell included. Close to a boundary, or anywhere awkward to pin down? Checking is better than assuming, and so phone.
A van that comes to you fits Whissendine, a village: you have no need to bring your car to us, because our engineers drain it on the spot, on a drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt.
Whissendine: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
Since each jobs differ, a flat figure wouldn't be fair. Whether the motor has run, and for how long, comes first in what shifts the price. How much AdBlue went in comes next, and then the location of the vehicle, since an open drive is simpler for a technician to reach safely than a tight spot behind Whissendine Windmill.
That is why every call from Whissendine starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what got in, how much, and if it has run. Their answers narrow the range down to a single figure.
Our price is given during the call, before a van sets off; payment comes on the day, by card or by phone, and nothing upfront. Misfuelling cover comes with plenty of insurance policies, so it is worth looking at yours before the van gets there.
Whissendine: still beside the car?
Then the most helpful thing you can do is nothing to your car. Keys out, motor off, ignition off. Tell us it's AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and whether the engine ran, on 0333 366 0103. After that Petrol in Diesel handles it, across Whissendine or anywhere within Rutland.