AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Abbas Combe? Don't Start It
If AdBlue has gone into your diesel tank, keep your motor off then keep the ignition off. Water with urea mixed in it: that's AdBlue. Being water-based, it won't ignite and never combines with diesel; trouble only starts when the pump starts pulling it. A drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Abbas Combe, is normally what AdBlue in a diesel tank needs — if it's caught before your motor has run. Before you do anything else, phone 0333 366 0103.
Your next steps right now, Abbas Combe: AdBlue in the diesel tank
To do:
- Pocket your keys, and that stops someone switching the electrics on.
- Hazards on, if moving traffic is at all near.
- The empty bottle or the receipt shows us the fluid and the amount, so don't bin it out.
- Call us from where you are. A postcode starting BA8 0, or the name of the closest street, brings our van to you without a search.
Do not:
- Not even briefly, and not to roll your car: your engine stays off.
- Your ignition remains off: on many diesels, turning it on is enough to start your fuel pump.
- No more fuel on top. The AdBlue will not blend, and so it's pointless.
- Any driving at all is to be avoided, even a short distance along Lily Lane.
- No emptying it yourself, at all, on the verge.
Ask the attendants to help you move your car off the pumps if you're on a forecourt in Abbas Combe, whether it is the Shell or elsewhere. On your own driveway, don't touch it at all.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
Not your motor but the exhaust is where AdBlue belongs. From a dedicated reservoir it is fed directly to your exhaust, cleaning what your motor lets out. Neither side fits the other: urea doesn't belong in an injection pump, and an injection pump can't take urea.
Tipped in with the diesel, it stays separate rather than blending — quite unlike fuel. It sinks, because it's denser than diesel, and settles low where the intake takes its fuel from. A motor filled on a driveway in Yenston overnight and left unstarted counts as the straightforward one. No pump has pulled the AdBlue up so far — but once the engine runs, that's what is pulled first, straight from the bottom of the tank.
After it's drawn in, the damage comes in two forms. What is left once the water evaporates is urea, which forms crystals: they lodge in narrow passages and clog filters. On top of that, it attacks certain metals in the fuel system, and carries on until it is flushed out. Overnight, a vehicle parked in Abbas Combe with AdBlue in its lines grows worse; where it is just inside the tank, it doesn't. Diesel lubricates the injection pump and every injector as it passes; water offers none of that, and that is a second kind of harm.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is often worse
Put petrol in a diesel at the Morrisons and you have an issue of thin fuel. No harm comes as long as it stays put, mixed into your diesel — only when the motor works on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is an issue of the wrong substance altogether. It can't simply be run through, because it doesn't burn. Deposits and corrosion stay after the following tankful, and AdBlue separates back out of the diesel, so watering it won't help. That is why the flush counts more, and trying the engine "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than nearly any other slip — in Wilkinthroop or the centre of Abbas Combe alike.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Wherever in Somerset your vehicle has come to rest, an unstarted motor means the AdBlue yet in the reservoir: the simplest part of a fuel system to empty.
Abbas Combe: how AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank
No one means to do it. The AdBlue filler on plenty of motors waits right next to the diesel filler, occasionally under the same flap, and the two caps can look alike in poor light. Mostly it's never the forecourt: a driver buys a container driving home and tips it in outside the house.
A few familiar ways cover most cases. Hurrying, outside Abbas and Templecombe Church School, after a warning light flashed on during the school run, a parent tops up the vehicle. Close to Church Hill, someone pours a bottle in at home in the evening. Or a driver new to that flap tops up the car after dark, stopped in the car park by The Half Moon Inn.
The least known vehicles get it most — hire cars, new ones, fleet cars, and the spare vehicle in a home with both fuels. Same slip, an identical first step — leave it switched off — anywhere you happen to be in Abbas Combe or the remainder of Somerset.
Abbas Combe: started the motor with AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the AdBlue has left your tank. Via your filter, through the pipework, and — given any running — on to the injection pump and every injector: that's how far it has gone.
Expect rough running, smoke, falling power, lights on the dash, or a cut-out — coming back from North Side Wood, say, or part way across Abbas Combe. No restarting to check: pull over once safe, then switch it off. Every start pulls more of that through.
Abbas Combe lies under 50 miles from the M5; if you were on it, leave by the next junction and stop somewhere safe rather than driving on.
Hopping across Abbas Combe to the car park by The Blessed Virgin Mary is one thing; driving towards Wells, under 25 miles away, is another, since each mile carries the AdBlue further in. So mileage matters. Approximately how far had it come? Tell us.
There's more to rinse out once the motor has been run, and our technicians do all of it where your car has stopped. Very seldom does it leave long-term damage if it's caught quickly.
Emptying AdBlue in a diesel in Abbas Combe: what it takes
A street by Abbas & Templecombe Village Hall, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt: wherever the vehicle has stopped around Abbas Combe, we travel to it. The job depends on three answers, which we ask for first — which fluid got in, the quantity, and whether your motor has turned over.
The contaminated diesel and the urea leave as one when the tank is emptied, right there. A full flush matters far more after AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains won't clear away on its own. Fresh diesel goes in after the filter is cleaned — or swapped, if it needs to be — and then the vehicle is tested. Engine not run? Then count on roughly half an hour once we are there for most jobs. Explosion-proof pumps make a busy forecourt safe to work on, and they run quiet enough to spare the street at night.
Priming your system with fresh diesel comes last. You set off as soon as we have started the engine, and it makes no difference whether your car is on a driveway in Abbas Combe or in a bay by Templecombe. Our engineers confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel before we leave. Our engineers do it all wherever the vehicle has stopped, and it never has to be taken to a garage. At the end, you are given paperwork for the insurer: a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer.
About Abbas Combe itself
Abbas Combe is a small village in inland Somerset, situated at an elevation of 91 metres and comprising predominantly semi-detached housing. Abbas Combe lies near the towns of Templecombe and Wells, and is surrounded by other nearby places such as Horsington and Combe Throop. Abbas Combe has a population of approximately 625 residents and is located about 17 miles from Wells, the nearest city. Abbas Combe is also around 105 miles west of London.
Abbas Combe and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
The vans that answer AdBlue jobs in Abbas Combe also cover the places round it, Templecombe, Horsington and Combe Throop among them, and most of Somerset beyond, across the BA postcode area. If you're near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Abbas Combe is a rural village, and an on-site drain suits it: whether the car is on a home drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt, our engineers drain it where it is, so it never needs to be shifted to us.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right in Abbas Combe
Not one flat price could be honest, since each job is different. Whether your engine has been running, and for how long, comes first in what changes the price. How much AdBlue was put in comes next, and then the position of the vehicle, since an open driveway is easier for a van to reach safely than a tight space behind St John the Baptist.
That is why every call from Abbas Combe starts with the same three questions, asked before giving a figure, not after: what was put in, how much, and if it has run. The answers turn a range into a straight price.
Our price is quoted during the call, before anyone leaves; settling up happens on the day, by card or by phone, and nothing upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
In Abbas Combe and still next to the car?
Then, touch nothing — that is the most helpful step available. Keys out; motor and ignition off. Ring 0333 366 0103 and tell us it is AdBlue, about how much, and whether it's run. Petrol in Diesel takes it from there, around Abbas Combe or anywhere across Somerset.