Broadwey: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the engine turned over since the AdBlue went in? This one question decides almost everything about what comes next. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is in Broadwey itself or out in Littlemoor. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where the car stands around Broadwey. Already run? Stop once you safely can, then turn it off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Dorset it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Broadwey forecourt
Picture it: stood by the pump, holding the bottle, you spot the filler you opened wasn't the right one. Possibly you are at the BP, maybe at the Sainsbury's, possibly somewhere else in Broadwey.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up just to move away from the pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Broadwey drive?
Several days had passed with the warning 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 a second time at the cap. Houses just off The Orchard are caught out as often as everywhere else.
Meaning? As long as the car has not moved since, it's second to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of that tank and stays there, no matter how long the night.
Put the keys in the house overnight — or a person may take it off at breakfast — then call us. Redlands or Broadwey: wherever your driveway is, that is where it gets cleared. Late-night drains beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Broadwey?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Somewhere along Watery Lane or on the road to Wells — under 50 miles away.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and each injector get it too on a bigger run, after the filter and lines have had it. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
Your move: stop somewhere safe, then turn the engine off. Broadwey sits under 50 miles from the M5; there, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on to the services. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Phone, and say how far your car went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a motor you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is right next to your diesel inlet — a surprise to you. Across Dorset, nobody is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies here — run or unrun — and one further step. Any work on your car often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager first, us second, since settling it beforehand saves time. Waiting for a reply at the car park at Upwey, or beside St Nicholas? Leave your car off meanwhile.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Broadwey
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; no clear memory of the cap. Look familiar? Maybe at a friend's driveway in Buckland Ripers, or rushing outside St Nicholas and St Laurence Church of England Primary School at the school run.
In short: a spill near the filler does the engine no harm. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, turning on the vehicle will draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Assume it got in, and don't turn the key. Checking a tank that proves clean is better than emptying one once it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain around Broadwey has in common
The work opens identically, whichever the situation. Forecourt, driveway, The Royal Standard's car park or a road by Broadwey Methodist Church — the van comes to the vehicle, and three questions follow: which liquid, what amount, and whether it has run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the answers set the job.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it's essential, since crystals build up and some metals corrode, and neither rinses out unaided. Fresh diesel is put in after the filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is then tested. If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
We fire it up at the end. Before our technicians leave, it's tested to be sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. Long-term damage is very rare when it's spotted soon, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Broadwey
Broadwey is a coastal suburban area in Dorset, situated near the towns of Redlands, Nottington, and Upwey. Broadwey lies at an elevation of 19 metres, with its terraced housing stock reflecting the area's history of development. Broadwey is located approximately 117.7 miles from London and 39.3 miles from the nearest city, Wells. Broadwey has a population of around 3226 residents.
Broadwey and Dorset: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Broadwey shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Upwey, Nottington — right through DT postcodes. A postcode starting DT3 5 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Coffin Plantation or in a car park in the middle of Broadwey, it doesn't need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it gets drained. Phone and ask instead of guessing if you're by Upwey & Broadwey Community Hall, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Unstarted? Leave it off then phone. Started by now? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whatever it is, across Broadwey and Dorset, on 0333 366 0103.