--- title: Abbotsham: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, What Next canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/abbotsham-devon/ location: Abbotsham county: Devon latitude: 51.016130 longitude: -4.247380 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-24 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Abbotsham: What Now? All of it turns on a single detail: whether your engine has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is in Abbotsham itself or out in Buckleigh. Leave your motor and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Abbotsham. When your motor has been run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the vehicle off. A larger job, then, yet the identical opening step. Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere in Devon you are. ## On a Abbotsham forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel Only now, nozzle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Somewhere in Abbotsham, then — Asda, BP, or somewhere else nearby. In short: there is no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in. What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you roll the car into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then call us from the forecourt. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt safe, so we can drain the vehicle in place. ## At home in Abbotsham with AdBlue in the diesel tank For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used on the drive. Driveways near Pump Lane get it as much as anywhere. What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of the tank and stays put, no matter how long the night. Put the keys in the house overnight — or a person may take it off first thing — then phone us. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it in Abbotsham or Rickards Down. Night-time drains outside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet. ## AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Abbotsham? Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the fill. It might have been driving for Exeter, under 50 miles away, or simply down Shepherds Meadow. Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, once your filter and lines have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further. Pull in somewhere safe — that's the first job — then turn everything off. On the M5, under 50 miles from Abbotsham, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us hear the mileage covered as you ring. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors You've had the car hardly a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap sits right next to the diesel. Anywhere you are around Devon, any motorist could be caught. The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, but with an added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car. Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Keep it off while the answer arrives, even if you're waiting outside Barnstaple or near St Helen's Church. ## Abbotsham: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? Honestly, the best answer may be that you think so. Lighter, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Look familiar? Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Helen's Church of England School, or on a friend's drive in Raleigh Estate. In short: spillage round the filler leaves the engine unharmed. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. Firing up the vehicle won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would pull it in. Assume it got in, and never turn the key. 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. ## The common ground in each Abbotsham AdBlue drain Whatever the case, one start is used. Forecourt, drive, Thatched Inn's car park or a street beside Abbotsham Baptist Church — the van reaches the vehicle, and three answers follow: which liquid, which amount, and if it ran. Those replies determine the work, and you hear the price on the phone, before anyone sets off. AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out unaided; that's why a full flush, after this drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Never started? In that case about half an hour once we are there is most jobs. Last, our engineers fire it up. Our check that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. The whole job is done where your car is, and if it's caught soon, permanent damage is very unusual. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is built into many policies. ## About Abbotsham and where it is Abbotsham is a small village in Devon, situated near the coast and approximately 61 metres above sea level. Abbotsham lies within a short distance of several nearby places, including Rickards Down, Knotty Corner, and Silford. Abbotsham has a population of around 519 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Abbotsham is located near the city of Exeter, which is about 37 miles away. ## AdBlue drains around Abbotsham and across Devon Abbotsham is a coastal village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Knotty Corner and Silford among them, across the EX postcode area. Fastest of all: a EX39 5 postcode to show where you stand. Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Badgershill Wood or in a car park in the middle of Abbotsham, it doesn't need to shift. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. Assuming doesn't help near Abbotsham Village Hall, on a border or anywhere awkward to describe; phone and check. ## Your situation, in one line Unstarted? Keep it that way then ring. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Devon and within Abbotsham — once you stop, turn off and phone, if it's run.