Widmore: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has run afterwards. Wherever your vehicle is — Shortlands, Widmore — never run an engine that hasn't been started yet. Usually this is draining and thoroughly purging it on the spot around Widmore — and so leave the key and engine off and phone 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. It's a larger job, yet step one does not change.
Anywhere in Greater London it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
At the pump around Widmore: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you are standing at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Maybe you are at the BP, possibly at the Harvest Energy, perhaps somewhere else around Widmore.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the pump wants clearing. Phone us from the forecourt after the vehicle is in a space — the attendants will help push it — then save the bottle. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a car that can't be pushed clear gets emptied right at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Widmore drive?
Days had passed with the warning light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened at the drive. Houses just off Pembroke Road get hit as often as everywhere else.
The point: no driving since makes this nearly as good to spotting it at the pump. Being unable to blend, AdBlue settles to the base inside your tank and waits. One night parked alters nothing.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by keeping your keys indoors, then phone us. Your driveway is where it gets drained, whether in Widmore or Bickley. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Widmore?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your engine was turning unevenly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up the dash. It might have been heading to London, under 10 miles away, or simply along Nightingale Lane.
The upshot: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — on into the injection pump and each injector. It goes further with each mile covered and each restart.
Next: pick a sensible place, pull in, and switch your engine off. On the M25, under 10 miles from Widmore, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say how far your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have had this car hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is right by your diesel cap — news to you. Throughout Greater London, no one is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or not — plus one further step. Many rental and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off before work.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Keep the vehicle off while the answer arrives, whether you're parked outside Bickley or close to Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Widmore?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. Which cap was taken off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. A rushed stop by the gates of La Fontaine Academy, or a visit to a friend in Southborough: both fit.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler don't touch your motor at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another story. If there is AdBlue in that tank, turning on your car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Your move: behave as if it got in, and never start your motor. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank looked at is a happier result than an already-run one emptied.
The common ground in every Widmore AdBlue drain
Each case has the same start to the work. Filling station, driveway, Bickley & Widmore Working Men's Club's car park or a street by St Blaise's well — the van reaches your car, and three questions come next: which liquid, what amount, and if it has run. Your price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and those replies set the job.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Clean diesel is put in after the fuel filter has been flushed or replaced, and your car is then checked. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Before our engineers head off, it is tested to be sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. Permanent damage is very unusual when it is caught early, and the entire job is done where your car is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Widmore
Widmore is a suburban area in the London Borough of Bromley, situated approximately 10 miles southeast of central London. Widmore sits at an elevation of around 57 metres, with its terraced housing stock reflecting the typical residential architecture of the region. Widmore is located near other suburban areas such as Bickley and Sundridge, and is part of the larger Bromley urban area.
AdBlue drains about Widmore and across Greater London
Widmore is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Bromley and Sundridge among them, across the BR postcode area. Quickest of all: a BR1 2 postcode for your location.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Widmore Recreation Ground or in a car park in the middle of Widmore, it doesn't need to shift. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Pulhamite Waterfall/Rockery or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Your scenario, in one line
Unstarted? Leave the vehicle that way then phone. Run by now: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, in Widmore or wherever across Greater London.