What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Blandford Camp
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your motor has been run since it went in. Not run so far? Then keep the car like that, whether the car is — Blandford Camp or Tarrant Rawston. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush after a drain, done right where the vehicle sits in Blandford Camp. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the cases our engineers see, anywhere across Dorset. Pick the one that fits.
Blandford Camp forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only at this point, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. It could be the Esso, or perhaps the Tesco, or another station around Blandford Camp.
The point: of all places to find out, this is the best. Nothing has drawn it in, so the AdBlue stays only in that tank.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Have the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Draining it there at the pump is possible if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
Blandford Camp, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Picked up a container, tipped it in outside the house, binned the empty — and only then checked the cap again, too late. Right off Gunville Down Road is not different from anywhere.
The point: no driving since makes this nearly equal to finding it at the pump. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base inside that tank and stays. A night standing changes none of that.
Next: stop an early-morning move by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Our engineers drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that is in Blandford Camp or out in Tarrant Monkton. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road in Blandford Camp with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and before long your motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Possibly it was on College Road, maybe on the way out towards Salisbury, under 25 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into the system. The injection pump and each injector see it as well on a longer trip, after your filter and pipework have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Service stations further along can wait: from the M27, under 25 miles out of Blandford Camp, use the first junction. No trial restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Let us know the distance driven as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
A week ago, it was new to you. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is just next to your diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Across Dorset, no one is safe from it.
The upshot: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, only with one added stage. Work on your vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under hire or fleet agreements.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager first, us second, because sorting it early saves time. Stranded by Royal Signals Museum or outside Hamworthy till the firm replies, your vehicle stays turned off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank in Blandford Camp?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Downlands Community School, or on a friend's drive in Tarrant Rushton.
In short: spillage near your filler does your engine unharmed. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the vehicle would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Your move: act as if it did, and never start your motor. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Blandford Camp AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Anywhere the car stands — the pub in the village's car park, a road by Outdoor Concert Stage, a drive, a filling station — the van arrives and asks for the liquid, the quantity, and if your engine has turned over. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our price, and those replies decide the work too.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is essential, because crystals build up and some metals are attacked, and neither washes away unaided. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Not started? In that case about half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our check that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before we go. We do the entire job where the car is, and permanent damage is very uncommon if it has been spotted early. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Blandford Camp and where it is
Blandford Camp is a small locality in Dorset, situated inland at an elevation of 81 metres, and is located near the villages of Tarrant Monkton and Tarrant Launceston. Blandford Camp is characterized by its semi-detached housing and is approximately 19 miles from the city of Salisbury. Blandford Camp sits within a wider rural area, with the nearby town of Pimperne also being a local centre. Blandford Camp has a population of around 654 residents.
AdBlue drains around Blandford Camp and across Dorset
Blandford Camp is a small village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Tarrant Launceston and Pimperne among them, across the DT postcode area. Quickest of all: a DT11 8 postcode to show where you stand.
No towing is needed, be it parked in the centre of Blandford Camp or in a layby heading to Pond Bottom Plantation, so leave it where it is. Wherever it stands, that is where it is drained. Awkward to explain? By Great Dorset Steam Fair (Site Of) or a border? Asking is better than assuming, so phone.
Your scenario, summed up
Unstarted? Keep the vehicle off and phone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Blandford Camp and anywhere around Dorset on 0333 366 0103.