AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ashleworth? Keep It Switched Off
Engine off, ignition off: that's where you begin if AdBlue has gone into your diesel tank. In plain terms, AdBlue is simply urea in water. The harm begins once it is sucked through the pump — it will not ignite, and it will not combine with diesel. Caught before your engine has run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Ashleworth. Ring 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Ashleworth: the first few minutes
To do:
- Keys out — then no one can power anything on.
- Put your hazards on if you're at all near moving traffic.
- The empty bottle or the till receipt tells us the product and the quantity, so don't throw it away.
- Tell us a postcode starting GL19 4, or whichever street is closest, and our van reaches you straight — so ring from wherever you are.
Not to do:
- Not even briefly, and not to shift the vehicle: your motor remains off.
- Do not switch the ignition on. On plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding more fuel won't thin it.
- Any driving at all is best avoided, even a short stretch along Bloxhams Orchard.
- Do not try to drain the vehicle yourself by the kerbside.
Get the attendants to help you move the vehicle away from the pumps if you're at a forecourt in Ashleworth, whether it is the BP or somewhere else. Stopped on your own drive? Then it stays just as it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
Not your engine but your exhaust is where AdBlue belongs. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into the exhaust gas to fresh it. Not one side fits the other: urea doesn't belong in a pump, and an injection pump can't take urea.
Poured in with your diesel, it stays apart rather than blending — entirely unlike fuel. The intake sucks fuel from the deepest part of your tank, and that is precisely where AdBlue ends up: as it is heavier than diesel, it sinks. A car filled on a driveway in Wickridge Street yesterday evening and left unstarted is the simple case. No pump has pulled the AdBlue up yet — though once the motor turns, that's what is pulled first, directly from the bottom of that tank.
It does two kinds of damage from there. Crystals and corrosion. As the water dries, it strands urea that hardens in filter elements and tiny channels; meanwhile, because it eats at some metals, every part it touches suffers for as long as it stays in there. Overnight, a car sitting around Ashleworth with AdBlue in its lines grows worse; where it is just inside the tank, it doesn't. Diesel protects the injection pump and every injector as it flows; water offers no lubrication, and that is a separate form of damage.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is commonly worse
An issue of thinned fuel is what you get after fuelling a diesel with petrol from the Valero. It mixes with the diesel, and while it's in that tank it causes no damage; the damage comes from running your motor on it.
The trouble with AdBlue in a diesel is a completely wrong liquid. Not burning, it can't simply be run through. Whether your vehicle is in Woolridge or the centre of Ashleworth, turning it over "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than almost any other slip, and the flush counts more. The reasons: it will not remain mixed, and so watering it down is impossible; and deposits and corrosion outlast the following fill.
The same good news applies as with petrol. Never run? Then the AdBlue waits just in that tank, the easiest section of the whole system to empty, wherever your car has stopped in Gloucestershire.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank in Ashleworth?
Many motors put the AdBlue cap beside the diesel cap, occasionally under a single flap, and in dim light the two may look the same. No one intends it. It usually takes place outside the house, from a container bought on the journey home, rather than at the filling station.
The ways it takes place are few and familiar. A warning light comes on during the school run, and the top-up occurs in a hurry outside Ashleworth Church of England Primary School. After work, a container goes in on a drive near Quay Lane. Or the car is topped up in the car park at Watersmeet, in poor light, by someone who has never opened that flap before.
It takes place most in the cars motorists know least: a hire car, a new motor, a company car, or the second vehicle of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Wherever across Gloucestershire, Ashleworth included, the mistake doesn't change, and neither does the first response: leave it switched off.
Already started your engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank in Ashleworth?
The AdBlue has left the tank, then. Given any running time, it travels to the high-pressure pump and every injector, having passed via your filter and lines.
Expect lumpy running, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash, or a cut-out — coming back from Deans Coppice, perhaps, or part way across Ashleworth. Stop when it is safe. Switch off. Keep the car off instead of testing it again. Each start pulls more of it through.
Ashleworth sits under 5 miles from the M50; if you were on it, exit by the next junction and stop safely rather than driving on.
How far it went matters. A couple of hundred yards across Ashleworth to the car park by The Preaching Cross is a very different job from a run towards Gloucester, under 5 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into your system with every mile. Tell us about how far it had come.
There's more to rinse out once your engine has run, and our engineers do all of it where the vehicle has ended up. Very rarely does it leave permanent damage if it is noticed quickly.
Ashleworth: how AdBlue is cleared from a diesel
A road by Memorial Hall Ashleworth, a driveway, a lay-by or a filling station: anywhere the vehicle has come to rest around Ashleworth, we travel to it. Three answers decide the work, so before anything else our engineers ask which fluid got in, about the amount, plus if the engine has run.
Next, emptying the tank right there removes the polluted diesel along with the AdBlue together. A careful flush matters much more with AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains won't clear out by itself. Next, the fuel filter: flushed, or replaced if it must be. Then clean diesel, and then a test of your car. If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once our engineers arrive. Low-noise enough for use outside a house at night, and fine on a working forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
Fresh diesel goes in to bleed the system, and that is the final step. Whether it's a parking space by Gloucester or a driveway in Ashleworth, that is where our engineers start the engine and you set off. The test before we go is that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. The entire job is done where your car is, so it never has to be taken to a workshop. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report after that, which is what insurers want.
About Ashleworth, for a moment
Ashleworth is a village in Gloucestershire, situated on the banks of the River Severn at an elevation of around 24 metres. Ashleworth lies near the city of Gloucester, approximately 4.6 miles away, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Longridge End and Hartpury. Ashleworth has a population of around 612 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing.
AdBlue drains in Ashleworth and across Gloucestershire
Throughout the GL postcode area, the teams taking AdBlue call-outs around Ashleworth reach most of Gloucestershire too, Longridge End, Longridge and Hartpury among them. Assuming doesn't help by a county line or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check.
A mobile service suits Ashleworth, a village: there's no need to bring your vehicle to us, because our technicians empty it on the spot, on a drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt.
What does AdBlue in a diesel tank cost to sort out around Ashleworth?
Each job differs, so not one fixed price would be honest. What shifts the cost is, first of all, whether the engine has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue was put in; and after that where the car is and whether a technician can reach it safely, which is simpler on an open drive than in a tight space behind Saints Andrew and Bartholomew.
Before a figure, never afterwards, each enquiry from Ashleworth begins with three checks: the fuel, the quantity, plus whether it ran. Once those are known, a range becomes one fixed number.
Before a van sets off, you hear the quote by phone. And payment is on the day, card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Check your policy whilst we're on the way: many include misfuelling cover.
In Ashleworth and still alongside the vehicle?
Then, touch nothing — that's the best step available. Keys out, motor off, ignition off. Say it's AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and if it ran, on 0333 366 0103. From there Petrol in Diesel takes over, across Ashleworth or wherever within Gloucestershire.