Bickington: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether the engine has run since it went in. Not started yet? Then keep the vehicle that way, whether the vehicle is — Bickington or Roundswell. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Bickington. When the motor has been run, pull in safely first, then switch it off. It is a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Wherever in Devon it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Bickington forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're 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. Be it Sainsbury's, BP or anywhere else in Bickington, the case is the same.
The point: of all places to notice, the forecourt is the best. Still inside the tank, and nothing pulled through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Next: avoid the urge to start it only to free up the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear is drained where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Bickington
On the dash, a warning had been lit all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Right off Bickington Lodge is no less likely from anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the car hasn't moved since, it is 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.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or someone may drive it away first thing — and phone us. Combrew or Bickington: whichever your driveway is, that's where it is emptied. The equipment works quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
On the road in Bickington with AdBlue in a diesel
A mile or two after topping up, the engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. Somewhere along Holland Close or on the road to Exeter — under 50 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each restart, like each mile, carries it deeper.
Next: pick a sensible place, stop, then turn the motor off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M5, under 50 miles from Bickington. No trial starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us hear the distance driven when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had the vehicle barely a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever in Devon, could do it.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which turn on whether it's run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our engineers get there than after. Keep the vehicle switched off as the answer arrives, whether you are waiting at Barnstaple or close to Sticklepath Methodist Church.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bickington?
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear memory of which cap. Look familiar? A rushed top-up by the gates of Roundswell Community Primary Academy, or a call to a friend in Brynsworthy: both fits.
The upshot: the motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the outside. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Turning on your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would draw it in.
Do this: act as if it got in, and don't start your motor. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Bickington has in common
The job begins identically, whatever your situation. Three things are asked once we reach your car — at a filling station, a drive, a street by St. Peter or the car park at Cedars Inn: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has run. Replies set the work; the price follows on the call while nobody has set off yet.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel goes in once the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced, and the car is then checked. Where your motor hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most cases.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before our technicians leave. If it's noticed soon, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. It is worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your documents as we travel pays.
About Bickington itself
Bickington is a village in Devon, situated inland at a low elevation of around 22 metres, and is located near the villages of Combrew and Muddlebridge. Bickington has a mix of housing types, but detached homes are the most predominant, and the village is close to the estate of Brynsworthy Park. Bickington is approximately 34.6 miles from the city of Exeter and around 174.2 miles from London, making it a rural community with some distance from major urban centres.
AdBlue drains across Devon, Bickington included
Over EX postcodes, the teams covering Bickington — a rural village — reach surrounding places too, Muddlebridge and Brynsworthy Park among them. A postcode starting EX31 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Bickington or a lay-by near Queen Elizabeth 2 Playing Field: either way it is, the car never needs to move at all for this drain. We drain the car where it sits. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near St Paul's Church or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Leave the vehicle that way and phone. Run by now? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Bickington and Devon, on 0333 366 0103.