Ashley Down: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your motor has been started afterwards. Wherever the vehicle stands — Lockleaze, Ashley Down — don't start a motor that hasn't run yet. Normally that means draining and properly rinsing it right there around Ashley Down — and so keep the key and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. Already started? Stop once safe, then turn it off. It's a bigger job, yet stage one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Bristol it happened.
Ashley Down forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, nozzle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Maybe you're at the Shell, perhaps at the EG On The Move, maybe somewhere else in Ashley Down.
The point: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. Still in the tank, and no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the pump needs clearing. Ring us from the forecourt after the car sits in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — and keep the receipt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed clear gets drained where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Ashley Down
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used on the drive. Houses just off Ashley Down Road are caught out as much as everywhere else.
Meaning? As long as the car has not been driven since, it's close to the pump case. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by putting your keys indoors, then phone us. Horfield or Ashley Down: wherever your driveway sits, that is where it gets emptied. Night-time drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road around Ashley Down with AdBlue in a diesel
Filled up, pulled away, and before long the motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Perhaps it was on Muller Avenue, maybe on the way out towards Bristol, under 3 miles away.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue through already. Distance decides how far it goes: filter and lines first, then the injection pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a sensible spot, stop, then switch the motor off. Services farther on can wait: from the M32, under a mile out of Ashley Down, use the next junction. No test restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Phone, and say how far the car went.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have only had this vehicle for days. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap was right beside the diesel. Anyone, wherever across Bristol, could make it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on if it's run. The owner often has to approve the work, under plenty of hire and company agreements.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, since settling it beforehand saves time. Waiting for a reply at the car park outside the nearest station, or beside The George Müller Museum? Leave the car off meanwhile.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Ashley Down?
At times the honest answer is "I think so". Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Look familiar? A hurried top-up by the gates of Brunel Field Primary School, or a call to a friend in Bishopston: either fits.
In short: a spill near the filler leaves your engine unharmed. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't start it. Tell us what you saw on your phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a happier result than a run one drained.
Ashley Down: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens the same way, whatever the situation. Three things are asked when we arrive — on a forecourt, a drive, a road by Bristol County Ground or the car park at Lazy Dog: the liquid, the quantity, and whether the motor has been started. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you hear the quote, and those replies decide the work too.
Draining that tank comes next, then a full flush — more vital after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, however long it sits. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up last. Before our technicians go, it's tested to confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel. If it's noticed quickly, the car very seldom has permanent damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your documents as we travel is worthwhile.
About Ashley Down
Ashley Down is a suburban area in Bristol, situated near the River Avon and close to the city centre. Ashley Down has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced homes. Ashley Down is located near other Bristol suburbs, including Horfield, Montpelier, and Henleaze, and is about 2 miles from Bristol city centre. Ashley Down sits at a relatively low elevation of around 50 metres above sea level.
Ashley Down and Bristol: AdBlue drains across the area
Montpelier and Henleaze have the same teams as Ashley Down, a residential suburb, plus further places over BS postcodes. Telling us a BS7 9 postcode finds you quickest of all.
Centre of Ashley Down or a lay-by towards Petherbridge Way Open Space: either way it sits, the car never needs to shift at all for us. Draining is done right there. Guessing won't help beside GR Fitness, on a border or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Bristol and within Ashley Down — after you pull over, turn off then ring, if it's run.