AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bowlish, and What to Do Next
All of it turns on a single fact: if your engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Field, Bowlish — don't run an engine that hasn't run yet. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, done just where the car stands around Bowlish. Stop the minute you safely can then switch off, if it has already run. It's a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Further down: the situations our technicians see, anywhere around Somerset. Pick yours.
On a Bowlish forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: standing by the pump, holding the bottle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. It might be the Tesco, or perhaps the Murco, or another station in Bowlish.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. No pump has drawn it in, and so the AdBlue sits just inside your tank.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs freeing. Get the attendants to lend a hand pushing it into a space, save the bottle, then ring us right there. Draining it there at the pump is fine if it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Bowlish with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used at the driveway. Driveways close to Bowlish get it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided your car has not been driven since, it is second to the forecourt case. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles low in that tank and waits. A night standing alters none of that.
Next: prevent an early-morning move by putting the keys in the house, then ring us. Darshill or Bowlish: whichever your drive sits, that's where it gets drained. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Bowlish?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe driving to Wells, under 5 miles away, or just along St Peters Road.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it as well on a longer run, once the filter and pipework have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then switch your engine off. Service stations further along can wait: from the M5, under 25 miles out of Bowlish, use the first junction. No trial starts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue will do. Call, saying what distance your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just driven the vehicle for days. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you didn't know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Across Somerset, no one is safe from it.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, but with one added step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us second, because sorting it beforehand saves time. Stranded near Shepton Mallet Baptist Church or at Castle Cary till someone answers, the car stays turned off throughout.
Bowlish: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. What cap came off, you can't say; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe at a friend's drive in Downside, or in a rush outside Bowlish Infant School at the school run.
Meaning? Drips around the inlet don't reach the engine at all. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on your car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Assume it was put in, and never start the engine. Ring with what you saw: we would rather confirm a clean tank than drain one once the engine has run.
Every AdBlue drain in Bowlish shares these steps
Every case gets the same opening to the job. Our technicians come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside Horseshoe Inn or a side street near Market Cross, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and whether the motor has been run. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told our quote, and those answers shape the work too.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out unaided; that's why a full flush, after the drain, counts much more here than with petrol. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers get there.
Lastly, we start it. Our test that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before we leave. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it's spotted soon, lasting damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in many policies.
About Bowlish
Bowlish is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Somerset, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Bowlish sits near the city of Wells, at an elevation of around 117 metres, and is close to nearby places such as Darshill and Shepton Mallet. Bowlish is located in the South West region of England, approximately 107 miles from London. Bowlish has a population of around 3758 people, living in a predominantly residential community.
Bowlish and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Bowlish is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Shepton Mallet and West Shepton among them, across the BA postcode area. The location is clearest from a postcode that starts BA4 5.
No towing is needed, be it parked in the centre of Bowlish or in a lay-by heading to Titwell Wood, and so leave it put. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets cleared. Tricky to explain? By St Peter and St Paul or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and ring. Run already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, in Bowlish and Somerset, on 0333 366 0103.