What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bicester Village
All of that turns on a single fact: if the engine has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Out in Highfield or right around Bicester Village, an unrun motor should stay unrun. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where the car sits in Bicester Village. Already run? Pull over once you safely can, then switch everything off. Step one remains the same, even if the job is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Oxfordshire it happened.
Bicester Village forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it while you are standing at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. It could be the Tesco, or the Esso, or another station in Bicester Village.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up only to move away from the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt once the vehicle is in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then keep the receipt. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
At home in Bicester Village with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used at the drive. It happens on driveways just off Pingle Drive as commonly as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. At the bottom of your tank sits where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Next: the keys in the house, and so no one drives your vehicle off at breakfast. After that, ring. Kings End or Bicester Village: whichever your driveway is, that's where it gets drained. Our pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Bicester Village?
Filled up, drove away, and soon your motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere on Bicester Village or heading towards Oxford — under 15 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the system. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. It goes further with every mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Bicester Village sits under 3 miles from the M40; there, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on to the services. It will not have cleared, so there's no point restarting to check. Phone us and say how far you drove.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
A week ago, the car was unknown to you. Your own car either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap sits right beside your diesel. Anyone, anywhere across Oxfordshire, might do the same.
The point: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, only with an added step. Many rental and company agreements need the owner's sign-off for work.
Sorting it before we arrives is quicker, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck near Bicester Village Outlet Shopping or at the nearest station until someone replies, the vehicle remains turned off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Bicester Village
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Greenwood.
In short: a spill near your filler does the motor unharmed. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. Turning on the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would suck it in.
Your move: act as if it got in, and never start your motor. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain around Bicester Village has in common
Every situation gets the same opening to the work. We come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Acorn or a side street near Saint Edburg, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your motor has run. Those replies decide the work, and you get the price by phone, before anyone heads out.
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 the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next is your filter — flushed, or swapped where necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. Where the motor hasn't been started, expect about half an hour once we arrive, for most cases.
Last, we fire it up. We make sure it runs properly on new diesel before we go. Long-term damage is very unusual when it is caught quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, so a quick look at your documents while you wait is worthwhile.
About Bicester Village, for a moment
Bicester Village is a suburban area in Oxfordshire, situated approximately 10 miles north of Oxford and 51 miles northwest of London. Bicester Village sits in a low-lying area at an elevation of around 69 metres, near the settlements of Kings End and Bicester. Bicester Village is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing and a population of around 2446 residents. Bicester Village is also close to the smaller settlement of Langford Village.
AdBlue drains across Oxfordshire, Bicester Village included
Bicester and Langford Village get the same vans as Bicester Village, a residential suburb, plus other towns throughout OX postcodes. Your location comes clearest from a postcode beginning OX26 6.
Centre of Bicester Village or a layby towards Pingle Field: wherever it sits, the car never needs to shift an inch for this drain. Where it stands, that is where it gets emptied. Tricky to pin down? By Catholic Church of The Immaculate Conception or a border? Asking beats guessing, so phone.
In one line: your situation
Where it hasn't run, ring and leave it that way. Run by now? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, across Bicester Village and Oxfordshire, on 0333 366 0103.