Child Okeford: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue went in? This single question settles almost everything else from here. Out in Hammoon or here around Child Okeford, an unrun motor must remain unrun. 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 Child Okeford. Stop the moment you safely can then switch off, if it has already run. Step one remains unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Anywhere across Dorset it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
Child Okeford forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It might be the Texaco, or perhaps the Esso, or another station in Child Okeford.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
At home in Child Okeford with AdBlue in the diesel tank
Days had gone by with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Driveways close to The Cross get it as much as any other street.
The upshot: zero miles since leaves it nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of the tank and stays there, no matter how long the night.
Put your keys in the house tonight — or someone may drive it off at breakfast — and call us. Our technicians drain the car on your drive, whether that's around Child Okeford or out in Hanford. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Child Okeford: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
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. It might have been driving to Salisbury, under 25 miles away, or simply down Hayward Lane.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue through by now. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, after the filter and pipework have it. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
Next: find a sensible place, stop, then switch the motor off. Exit by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M27, under 50 miles from Child Okeford. It won't have cleared, and so there's no point starting it again to find out. Call, saying what distance your vehicle was driven.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It is a car you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, its inlet is just next to your diesel cap — a surprise to you. Anyone, wherever in Dorset, might make it.
The upshot: just as above, split by whether it ran, but with one added stage. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is faster. If you're stuck in the car park at Gillingham (Dorset), or by St Nicholas, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Child Okeford?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. What cap came off, you cannot recall; but the bottle weighs less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Child Okeford, or on a friend's drive in Shroton.
Put simply: a spill near your filler leaves your motor unharmed. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be drawn in by turning on the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it went in, then keep your motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What each AdBlue drain around Child Okeford has in common
Whatever the situation, one opening applies. Three questions come when we reach your car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Child Oakford Community Center or the car park at The Bakers Arms: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has run. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the job.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is essential, because crystals build up and some metals corrode, and none of it rinses out unaided. Then is your filter — cleaned, or replaced when needed — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Where your motor hasn't run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Firing it up comes last. Our check that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before we head off. The entire job is done where the car is, and when it's spotted quickly, long-term damage is very unusual. Paying is on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Child Okeford
Child Okeford is a village in north Dorset, situated in a rural area at an elevation of around 76 metres. Child Okeford lies near the villages of Hanford, Fontmell Parva, and Shillingstone, and is approximately 22 miles from Salisbury. Child Okeford has a population of around 793 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains about Child Okeford and across Dorset
Throughout DT postcodes, the teams covering Child Okeford — a rural village — reach surrounding towns as well, Fontmell Parva and Shillingstone among them. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode that starts DT11 8.
Stopped en route to Tan-hill Copse, or right in the heart of Child Okeford, your vehicle stays where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Where it stands, that is where it is cleared. Phone and ask rather than guess when you are close to Hambledon Hill, on a border, or somewhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, in one line
Motor not started: phone, leaving it switched off. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Dorset and in Child Okeford — once you pull over, switch off then phone, if it has run.