Bordon: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then leave your motor off — and your ignition as well. AdBlue is urea dissolved in water. Being water-based, it will not burn and never combines with diesel; trouble just comes once your pump starts pulling it. In Bordon, AdBlue in a diesel tank caught before your engine runs normally means a drain and a thorough flush, right where the car is. Before anything, ring us on 0333 366 0103.
Bordon, AdBlue in your diesel tank: what to do at once
Do:
- Remove your keys, which stops anyone switching the power on.
- Put the hazards on if you're at all close to moving traffic.
- Hold on to the receipt or the empty bottle, so you can tell us what got in and about how much.
- The van locates you fastest with a postcode starting GU35 0, or just the name of a street nearby, so phone from the car.
Don't do these:
- Don't start the engine, even for a moment to shift the vehicle.
- Do not switch the ignition on. On many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump.
- Adding more diesel does not work: AdBlue settles out instead of thinning.
- Do not drive the car anywhere, not even a short stretch along High Street.
- Beside the road, don't try emptying it yourself.
On a forecourt around Bordon, whether it is the Esso or another one, ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle clear of the pump. If you're on your own drive, leave the car exactly where it is.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
Not the motor but your exhaust is where AdBlue belongs. Its own reservoir keeps it, and from there it's fed into your exhaust, where it treats the gas. Nothing inside a fuel pump is designed for this liquid — and no part of it was meant to travel through one.
Fuel mixes; AdBlue, once poured in, will not. The behaviour is not at all like fuel's. The intake takes fuel from the deepest part of your tank, and that is precisely where AdBlue ends up: being denser than diesel, it sinks. Simplest of all: a vehicle that got AdBlue in Hollywater last night and has not been started since. The liquid waits at the base of the tank, untouched — but it would be the first thing through if the motor runs, before any diesel at all.
Two kinds of harm come from there. Crystals and corrosion. As the water evaporates, it strands urea that hardens in filter elements and tiny channels; and, since it eats at certain metals, each part it reaches keeps suffering for as long as it stays inside. A car left sitting around Bordon with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue only in its tank is not. Water lubricates nothing. The high-pressure pump and each injector depend on diesel flowing through them, so the water part harms them by itself.
Why is AdBlue in a diesel regularly the bigger issue?
Top up a diesel with petrol in error at the Shell, and the issue is diluted fuel. Damage only comes from running on it. Blended into your diesel and sitting inside that tank, it causes nothing.
AdBlue in a diesel is a problem of the wrong substance altogether. Because it does not burn, running it through isn't an option. Whether your car sits in Standford or the heart of Bordon, turning it over "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than almost any other mistake, and the flush counts for more. Why: it will not stay blended, and so diluting it is impossible; and crystals and corrosion survive the next tankful.
As with petrol, there is good news. Anywhere in Hampshire the vehicle has come to rest, an unstarted engine means the AdBlue yet inside the tank: the simplest part of any fuel system to clear.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Bordon: how it ends up there
In dim light, two caps side by side — the AdBlue cap and the diesel one, now and then behind a single flap — can appear the same. No one means it; many designs allow it. Usually it's not the filling station: a driver buys a container heading home and tips it in outside the house.
A few familiar ways cover most cases. The top-up is rushed outside Bordon Infant School, because the dash lit up with a warning as the kids were taken in. Close to Camp Road, a driver tips a bottle in at home after work. Else, after dark outside Tap@The Shed, your vehicle gets topped up by a driver opening that flap for the first time.
Rented motors, new motors, fleet cars, or the spare vehicle in a family with one of each: the least familiar vehicles see it the most. Wherever across Hampshire, Bordon included, the slip does not change, and nor does the first response: leave it switched off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Bordon, and your engine started?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. Via your filter, through the pipework, and — given any running time — on to the injection pump and each injector: that is how far it has gone.
You may notice the engine running unevenly, smoking, losing power, showing warning lights or cutting out, possibly on the way back from Deadwater Valley Local Nature Reserve or halfway across Bordon. When safe, stop then turn everything off — without turning it on again to see. Each start pulls more of that through.
Bordon sits under 15 miles from the M3; if you were on it, leave at the next junction and stop somewhere safe rather than driving on.
How far it went counts. A couple of hundred yards across Bordon to the car park by Church of the Sacred Heart is a very different job from a run towards Chichester, under 25 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into the fuel system with each mile. Tell us roughly how far it had come.
We do all of the rinsing where the car has stopped, and once the engine has been started there is more of it. Long-term damage is very unusual when it is noticed early.
Clearing AdBlue in a diesel around Bordon: what it takes
The vehicle stays where it is, whether that's a street near Whitehill & Bordon Leisure Centre, a drive, a lay-by or a filling station around Bordon, and our van comes to it. What went in, about how much, plus whether the engine has been run: our engineers ask before all else, since those decide the job.
Next, draining that tank on the spot removes the contaminated diesel and the AdBlue together. The system is flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol, because what it leaves behind doesn't rinse out on its own. Clean diesel goes in once your filter is flushed — or swapped, when it needs to be — and then the car is tested. The majority of these jobs are a half-hour job once we get there, if your engine hasn't run. The pumps are explosion-proof, fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Finally, the system is primed with clean diesel. Whether it is a parking space by Liphook or a drive around Bordon, that is where our technicians start the car and you drive off. It's tested on new diesel to make sure it runs properly before our technicians head off. No garage is required at any point, with the whole job done on the spot. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report after that, which is what insurers ask for.
About Bordon
Bordon is a town situated in the South East of England, in the county of Hampshire, with a riverside setting and an elevation of 94 metres. Bordon lies near the towns of Deadwater, Lindford, and Whitehill, and is approximately 19.5 miles from Chichester. Bordon has a population of around 15432 people and predominantly features terraced housing. Bordon is also within commuting distance of London, being around 41.8 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Bordon and across Hampshire
Throughout the GU postcode area, the teams answering AdBlue jobs in Bordon serve most of Hampshire too, Deadwater, Lindford and Whitehill among them. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, ring and ask rather than assuming.
No towing is needed. In Bordon, a riverside town, a mobile service works: the vehicle is emptied where it stands, be it in a drive, a side street, a car park or a filling station.
Bordon: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
Not one flat price could be honest, since every job differs. What changes the price is, first of all, whether the engine has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue got in; and then where your car is and whether a van can get to it safely, which is simpler on an open drive than in a tight gap behind Bordon Library.
What got in, how much, plus whether it ran: every Bordon enquiry opens with exactly that, before any figure, never afterwards. When they are known, a range turns into one fixed figure.
Priced on the call before the van sets out, it is settled on the day — card or phone, nothing in advance. As the van is travelling, dig out your policy: many include misfuelling.
Beside the vehicle around Bordon, still?
Then the most handy thing you can do is nothing to the vehicle. Engine off, keys out, ignition off. Phone 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, roughly how much, plus if it ran are everything our technicians ask. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder across Hampshire, Bordon too.