Colebrooke: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue got in? This one point settles nearly everything else from here. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Colebrooke itself or out in Knowle. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where the vehicle sits in Colebrooke. Stop the moment it is safe then switch off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Wherever around Devon it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Colebrooke forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you are stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. Somewhere around Colebrooke, then — Shell, Fry's Garage, or somewhere else nearby.
The point: of all places to find out, this is the best. Nothing has drawn it through, so the AdBlue stays just inside that tank.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — and so do not get back in. Ask the attendants to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Colebrooke
Days had passed with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. It happens on drives just off The Meadows as often as anywhere.
The upshot: no driving since makes it nearly as good to spotting it at the pump. At the floor of the tank sits where AdBlue waits, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Your move: the keys indoors, so no one drives your car off first thing. Then, ring. Your driveway is where it is emptied, whether in Colebrooke or Penstone. Even at night, the pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Colebrooke?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Ford Hill, say, or the route to Exeter — a trip of under 15 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. It has been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. Colebrooke lies under 15 miles from the M5; there, come off at the first junction instead of pushing on for the services. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You've only had this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Devon.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or not — plus one extra stage. Work on the vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
Your move: hire firm or fleet manager first, us second, since settling it early saves time. If you are stranded in the car park outside Yeoford, or by St Andrew's, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Colebrooke: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. A slight ammonia smell lingers near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Yeoford Community Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Copplestone.
The point: the motor isn't harmed by some AdBlue spilled around the filler. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in your tank would be drawn in by turning on your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it got in, then leave your engine off. Checking a tank that proves clean is better than draining one after it's been run — so phone and describe to us what you noticed.
The common ground in each Colebrooke AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Forecourt, drive, The New Inn's car park or a street beside Colebrooke House — our van reaches your car, and three answers come next: what liquid, which amount, and whether it ran. The price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next comes your filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the vehicle. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Our test that it runs properly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. If it is spotted quickly, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole 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 while the van travels.
About Colebrooke, for a moment
Colebrooke is a small village in inland Devon, situated approximately 10 miles west of Exeter and 115 metres above sea level. Colebrooke lies near the villages of Penstone, Coleford, and Yeoford, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Colebrooke remains a quiet rural community with a population of around 509 residents. Colebrooke is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 164.5 miles.
AdBlue drains across Devon, Colebrooke included
Being a rural village, Colebrooke has the same vans as the nearby places — Yeoford, Coleford — all the way across EX postcodes. Quickest of all: a EX17 5 postcode to show your location.
No towing is needed, be it parked centrally in Colebrooke or on a lay-by en route to Five Acre Copse, and so leave it put. Draining happens on the spot. Tricky to explain? Close to Colebrooke Parish Hall or a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
The one-line version
Still unrun? Keep it that way and phone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Colebrooke and anywhere around Devon on 0333 366 0103.