Clays End: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one fact: if the motor has started since the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Over in Newbridge or here around Clays End, an unstarted engine must remain unrun. Normally that is draining and properly cleaning it on the spot in Clays End — and so leave your ignition and engine off and call 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical first move.
Further down: the situations we meet, anywhere in Somerset. Pick the one that fits.
At the petrol pump around Clays End: AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Gulf, Sainsbury's or somewhere else in Clays End, the case is identical.
The point: of all places to find out, this is the best. Just that tank has AdBlue; not one part beyond it has drawn any in.
Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — so don't get back in. A few things: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is fine when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Clays End
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used at the driveway. It occurs on drives just off Pennyquick as regularly as anywhere.
Put simply: if your car has not been driven since, it's almost equal to spotting it at the forecourt. At the floor of your tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Next: stop an early move by keeping your keys in the house, then ring us. We drain it on your driveway, whether that's around Clays End or out in Newton St Loe. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
On the road around Clays End with AdBlue in a diesel
A short way after filling up, the engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. It might have been heading for Bath, under 3 miles away, or simply down Bristol Road.
What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Past your filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and every injector. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
Next: pick a sensible place, pull in, and switch your engine off. On the M4, under 10 miles from Clays End, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, so there's no sense starting it again to check. Phone, saying what distance your vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had this car hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is just by your diesel cap — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Somerset.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Sorting it before the van turn up is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. If you are stuck in the car park at Oldfield Park, or by Newton St. Loe Village Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Clays End: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Twerton Infant School, or on a friend's drive in Whiteway.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler never reach the motor at all. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Turning on the vehicle will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will pull it in.
Your move: behave as if it got in, and don't start your engine. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Clays End: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things come when our engineers arrive — on a filling station, a drive, a street by Holy Trinity or the car park outside The Globe: the liquid, the quantity, and if it has run. Replies shape the job; the price follows by phone while no one has set off yet.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out on its own; that's why the flush, after the drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most jobs.
We fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before we leave. If it's noticed soon, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the entire job happens where it is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money upfront. Many policies include misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Clays End itself
Clays End is a locality situated on the riverside in Somerset, with a relatively low elevation of around 60 metres. Clays End lies close to the city of Bath, approximately 2.9 miles away, and is near other nearby places such as Newton St Loe, Corston, and Twerton. Clays End has a population of around 1372 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing.
Clays End and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a neighbourhood, Clays End shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Twerton, Corston — right across BA postcodes. A postcode starting BA2 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Church Wood or in a car park in the middle of Clays End, it doesn't need to shift. Where it stands, that is where it is drained. Awkward to pin down? Close to Michael Tippett Centre or a border? Checking beats guessing, and so ring.
Your scenario, summed up
Where it hasn't run, phone and leave it off. Started already? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, in Clays End and Somerset, on 0333 366 0103.