Mobile Fuel Drain Service — Wrong Fuel Removed On-Site, UK-Wide 24/7

Mobile fuel drain near you — what happens when you call

Put petrol in a diesel? Stop. Don't turn the key. The single biggest factor in what this ends up costing you is whether the wrong fuel got past the tank and into the fuel system — and that only happens once the engine turns over.

From the moment you call, a mobile fuel drain unit is dispatched to wherever you are — forecourt, driveway, depot, lay-by or hard shoulder. There's no need to recover the vehicle to a garage and no need to wait until Monday. Our fuel drain engineers work on-site and, in the majority of cases, hand the vehicle back to you the same visit.

1. You call, we locate you. One call to 0330 0433 365, 24 hours a day. We take your location, vehicle and what went into the tank.
2. We dispatch the nearest engineer. Most UK addresses are reached in 60–90 minutes.
3. The tank is drained on-site. The contaminated fuel is fully removed from the tank and taken away for safe disposal.
4. The system is flushed. If the vehicle was started or driven, the lines, filter and rail are purged of the wrong fuel too.
5. You're refuelled and away. We put in enough of the correct grade to get you to a station, and you drive off.

Wrong fuel rescue for cars, vans, HGVs and plant

Misfuelling isn't only a car problem. Because our core business is commercial vehicle breakdown support, our wrong fuel rescue engineers are set up for the big stuff as well as the family hatchback:

• Cars — petrol in diesel and diesel in petrol, the two most common misfuels on UK forecourts.
• Vans and light commercials — including fleet vehicles, where we can invoice the operator directly rather than the driver.
• HGVs, tractor units and trailers — larger tank capacities, drained on-site without recovering the unit.
• Plant, agricultural and site vehicles — including red diesel and AdBlue contamination.

Fuel drainage, fuel removal and contaminated tanks

A fuel drain service covers more than the classic wrong-nozzle mistake. We're called out for fuel drainage and fuel removal across a range of situations:

• Misfuelling — the wrong grade in the tank, caught before or after starting the engine.
• AdBlue in the diesel tank (or diesel in the AdBlue tank) — a mis-fill that needs the tank drained and flushed properly, not topped up and hoped for.
• Contaminated or stale fuel — water ingress, diesel bug, or a vehicle that's stood long enough for the fuel to go off.
• Draining a fuel tank before work — tank removal, repair or vehicle scrappage, where the fuel has to come out first.

In every case the fuel we take out leaves with us and is disposed of through licensed channels. You're not left with drums of contaminated diesel to deal with.

Nationwide fuel drain coverage

We're a nationwide network, so fuel draining service near you generally means an engineer already working in your area rather than one setting off from the other end of the country. Some of the areas we cover for wrong fuel added fuel drain include (but are not limited to) Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Luton, Glasgow, Bristol, Southampton and Belfast.

Already broken down for another reason? We also cover nationwide commercial vehicle breakdown support, commercial vehicle recovery and 24-hour mobile tyre repair.

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