What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Wyatts Green
One fact matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your engine has been started since. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Wyatts Green itself or out in Swallows Cross. Call 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine still off. In Wyatts Green, that is generally drained and flushed where it stands. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then turn everything off. A larger job, then, yet the same opening move.
Match what happened to one of the ones below, anywhere in Essex you are.
Wyatts Green forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just now, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Perhaps you're at the BP, perhaps at the Applegreen, maybe somewhere else in Wyatts Green.
In short: no better place exists to discover it. Still in that tank, with nothing pulled through: that is where the AdBlue is.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Can't move the car beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a busy forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Wyatts Green
For days the dash had been warning you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. It takes place on driveways just off Plovers Mead as frequently as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided the car hasn't been driven since, it is second to the forecourt case. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Keep your keys indoors tonight — or someone might take it away first thing — then call us. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that's around Wyatts Green or out in Doddinghurst. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Wyatts Green?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Kilnfield, say, or the way towards Chelmsford — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Do this: pull up somewhere sensible, then switch the engine off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M25, under 5 miles from Wyatts Green. It won't have cleared, and so there is no point starting it again to check. About what distance had it gone? Say so as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You've only had this vehicle a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets are side by side here — unlike your own car, which has none or keeps it in another spot. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Essex.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of rental and fleet contracts need the owner's sign-off before work.
Sorting it before we arrives is quicker, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. If you are stuck in the car park outside Shenfield, or by St Margaret's Church, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Wyatts Green: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Doddinghurst Infant School, or on a friend's drive in Stondon Green.
The point: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: act as though it went in, then leave your engine off. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Wyatts Green: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation has the same opening to the work. Three questions come once we reach your car — at a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Doddinghurst Village Hall or the car park outside the pub in the village: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. Your price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the job.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go on their own, however long you wait. Then comes the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped where necessary — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Finally, our engineers fire it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while we check it is running properly, and then we leave. Permanent damage is very unusual when it's spotted soon, and the entire job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth knowing: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a check of your documents while you wait is worthwhile.
About Wyatts Green
Wyatts Green is a small village in Essex, situated inland at an elevation of 83 metres, and is located near the larger city of Chelmsford. Wyatts Green has a population of around 963 people and is characterized by predominantly detached housing. Wyatts Green is close to nearby places such as Doddinghurst, Peartree Green, and Hook End, and is about 21.9 miles from London.
Wyatts Green and Essex: AdBlue drains across the area
Peartree Green and Hook End have the identical teams as Wyatts Green, a rural village, plus other places over CM postcodes. The location comes quickest from a postcode beginning CM15 0.
Central Wyatts Green or a layby near Whitelands Wood: wherever it is, the vehicle doesn't need to move at all for us. Our van empties it where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to All Saints, Doddinghurst or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
Unstarted? Keep the vehicle off then ring. Run already: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Wyatts Green or anywhere in Essex.