AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Campion Hills: What Now?
Has your motor run since the AdBlue got in? That one question settles almost everything else from here. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle like that, whether the vehicle is — Campion Hills or Blackdown. Leave the motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Campion Hills. When the motor has run, pull in safely straight away, then switch it off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Further down: the situations we see, anywhere around Warwickshire. Pick the one that fits.
At the petrol pump around Campion Hills: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Be it Esso, Asda or anywhere else in Campion Hills, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Next: resist the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the petrol pump. Have the staff to lend a hand pushing it into a space, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Stuck beside the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt sensible, so we can drain the car in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Campion Hills drive?
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Drives close to Sheepcote Close get it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Being unable to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. One night parked changes nothing.
Next: prevent an early-morning move by putting your keys indoors, then ring us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether around Campion Hills or Royal Leamington Spa. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Campion Hills?
A mile or two after topping up, the engine began playing up: rough running, smoke, lost power, lights on the dash. Maybe it was on Rosewood Crescent, possibly on the way out towards Coventry, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through your fuel system. Past your filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — on into the injection pump and each injector. It travels further with every extra mile driven and every restart.
Do this: pull up somewhere sensible, then switch your motor off. Service stations farther along are too far: on the M40, under 5 miles out of Campion Hills, take the next junction. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About how far did it go? Say so as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just had this car a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or keeps it in another spot. Throughout Warwickshire, no one is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Many hire and company contracts need the owner's sign-off for work.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers get there than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Leamington Spa, or by Saint Paul's, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Campion Hills?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think so. Lighter, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round your filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Look familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Paul's CofE Primary School, Leamington Spa, or on a friend's drive in Sydenham.
Put simply: spillage near your filler does the engine unharmed. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in the tank would be drawn in by turning on the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it went in, and never turn the engine. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats draining one once it has been run — so phone and describe to us what you saw.
The common ground in each Campion Hills AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Our technicians come to your car, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at Somerville Arms or a side street close to Leamington National Spiritualist Church, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and whether your motor has been run. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told our quote, and those answers decide the job too.
Then that tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Where your motor has not been started, allow roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
The last step is firing it up. Our check that it runs properly on new diesel comes before our engineers leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it's noticed early, and the entire job is done where your car is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, so check yours while the van travels.
About Campion Hills itself
Campion Hills is a locality situated on the riverside in Warwickshire, with an elevation of 76 metres. Campion Hills lies approximately 7.8 miles from Coventry and 80.7 miles from London, placing it within the West Midlands region. Campion Hills is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing and is near to other local places such as Royal Leamington Spa, Lillington, and Milverton. Campion Hills has a population of around 4245 residents.
Campion Hills and Warwickshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over CV postcodes, the vans serving Campion Hills — a small village — work nearby towns too, Lillington and Milverton included. A postcode starting CV32 5 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Central Campion Hills or a lay-by towards Campion Hill Cycle (BMX) Track: wherever it sits, the vehicle never needs to shift an inch for us. Wherever it stands, that is where it is emptied. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Leamington Spa Baptist Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep the car off and ring. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Campion Hills and anywhere in Warwickshire on 0333 366 0103.