Ashcombe Park: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine run since the AdBlue went in? That single point decides almost everything else from here. Not started so far? Then leave the vehicle like that, wherever your car sits — Ashcombe Park or Norton. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush plus a drain, done right where your vehicle stands around Ashcombe Park. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Match your case to a situation from the list below, anywhere around Somerset you happen to be.
On a Ashcombe Park forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Maybe you're at the Texaco, maybe at the Esso, perhaps somewhere else in Ashcombe Park.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Still in the tank, and nothing drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump needs freeing. Three things: a shove into a bay with the attendants assisting, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear is emptied right at the petrol pump.
At home in Ashcombe Park with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had been lit all week. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Houses just off Ashbury Drive are caught out as much as everywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the car has not been driven since, it's close to the pump case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it in Ashcombe Park or Worlebury. Our pumping kit works quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Ashcombe Park?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a short way after the fill. Underwood Avenue, perhaps, or the route towards Cardiff — a run of under 15 miles.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue in by now. Mileage sets how deep it gets: filter and pipework to begin with, then the injection pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up anywhere sensible, then switch your motor off. On the M5, under 3 miles from Ashcombe Park, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About what distance did it gone? Tell us when you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had this vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be in Somerset, every driver can be caught.
The point: exactly as above, split by if it ran, only with one added stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before we turn up than after. Leave it off as the reply comes, even if you are waiting at Weston Milton or close to Bethany Gospel Hall.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Ashcombe Park
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Maybe on a friend's driveway in Weston-super-Mare, or rushing by Worlebury St Pauls Church School on the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to the engine. In your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Firing up your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would pull it in.
Next: assume it went in, and keep the motor off. Ring and give the details: we would rather confirm a clean tank than empty one after the motor has run.
The common ground in every Ashcombe Park AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Forecourt, driveway, The Bristol House's car park or a street by Ashcombe Park Bowling Club — the van comes to the car, and three questions follow: what fluid, what amount, and if it ran. On the phone, before anything else, you hear the price, and those replies decide the job too.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it's crucial, because crystals form and some metals are attacked, and neither washes away unaided. Next comes the filter — flushed, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of your car. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Firing it up comes last. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it's running properly, and then we go. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it is noticed soon, long-term damage is very rare. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your policy as you wait pays.
About Ashcombe Park, for a moment
Ashcombe Park is a coastal locality in Somerset, situated near the towns of Worlebury and Kewstoke, with Milton also nearby. Ashcombe Park sits at an elevation of 82 metres, overlooking the Bristol Channel, and is approximately 12.7 miles from Cardiff. Ashcombe Park has a population of around 2175 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains about Ashcombe Park and across Somerset
As a coastal area, Ashcombe Park has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Milton, Kewstoke — all the way through BS postcodes. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode beginning BS22 9.
No towing is required, be it stopped in the centre of Ashcombe Park or in a layby heading to the green space at the edge of the village, so leave it put. Wherever it stands, that's where it is drained. Assuming doesn't help beside Saint Judes Theatre, on a border or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
In one line: your situation
Engine not started: phone, leaving it switched off. Run by now: pull over, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Ashcombe Park or anywhere across Somerset.