Boyatt Wood: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your engine has run since. Wherever your car stands — Eastleigh, Boyatt Wood — don't run an engine that has not been started yet. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush plus a drain, done just where your vehicle sits around Boyatt Wood. Pull over the moment it is safe then switch off, if it has already run. Step one remains the same, even though the work grows.
Anywhere across Hampshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
At the petrol pump in Boyatt Wood: AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. It might be the Esso, or the Shell, or a different station in Boyatt Wood.
Put simply: no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump wants freeing. Three things: a shove into a bay with the staff assisting, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is possible if it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Boyatt Wood
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Drives near Woodside Avenue get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not moved since, it is close to the pump case. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or a person may drive it away first thing — then call us. Out in Fryern Hill or right here around Boyatt Wood, the draining happens on your drive. Our equipment runs quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Boyatt Wood?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way after the fill. Bosville, say, or the way towards Southampton — a run of under 10 miles.
What it means: the system has pulled the AdBlue in. Past the fuel filter, through the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that is the first job — then turn everything off. Boyatt Wood sits under a mile from the M3; there, come off at the first junction instead of pressing on to the services. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Let us hear the distance covered as you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the vehicle barely a week. Unknown to you, the two fillers sit side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Anywhere you happen to be in Hampshire, any motorist can be caught.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. The owner frequently needs to sign off the work, under plenty of hire and company agreements.
Settling it before the van turn up is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park outside Eastleigh, or by St. Peter's Church, Boyatt Wood, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Boyatt Wood: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. A rushed stop by the gates of Shakespeare Junior School, or a visit to a friend in Allbrook: either fit.
Put simply: spillage round the filler leaves your engine no harm. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up your car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it went in, and never turn the key. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it has been run — so phone then tell us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain in Boyatt Wood shares these steps
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Arrow or a side street near Fryern Hill Pavillion, and ask three things: what was put in, about how much, and if your motor has been run. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told the price, and those replies decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out on its own; that is why the flush, after the drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last come the fuel filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; fresh diesel; and a check of your vehicle. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment we get there.
Finally, our engineers fire it up. Our test that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before we leave. If it's caught quickly, the vehicle very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over.
About Boyatt Wood
Boyatt Wood is a suburban area in Hampshire, situated approximately 5.7 miles from Southampton and 64.5 miles from London. Boyatt Wood lies inland at an elevation of around 18 metres, near the communities of Fryern Hill, Newtown, and Chandlers Ford. Boyatt Wood is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which accommodates a population of around 6524 residents.
AdBlue drains round Boyatt Wood and across Hampshire
Being a residential suburb, Boyatt Wood has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Chandlers Ford, Newtown — all the way across SO postcodes. Quickest of all: a SO50 4 postcode to show where you stand.
Central Boyatt Wood or a layby towards Selborne Drive Green: either way it sits, the car doesn't need to move an inch for us. Our van empties it where it stands. Guessing doesn't help near Chandler's Ford Library, close to a border or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and ask.
Your scenario, summed up
Engine not started: ring, and leave it switched off. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever it is, across Boyatt Wood and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.