Colt Hill: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether your engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Not run yet? Then keep it that way, wherever the car is — Colt Hill or Warnborough Green. Usually that means draining and thoroughly flushing it right there around Colt Hill — and so keep your ignition and motor off and phone 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, then, yet the identical opening step.
Wherever around Hampshire it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
Colt Hill forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you realise the filler you took off was not the correct one. Anywhere around Colt Hill, then — Texaco, Esso, or anywhere else close by.
The upshot: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. Only your tank holds AdBlue; no part past it has taken any in.
What to do: do not get back in and start it to clear the petrol pump. Have the staff to help pushing it to a bay, save the receipt, then phone us right there. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is possible if it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Colt Hill
On the dash, a reminder had shown for days. A bottle from the shop, tipped in on the drive — and it was just by the recycling that the cap caught your eye. Drives close to Linden Avenue get it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Your move: the keys in the house, and so nobody takes the vehicle off at breakfast. Then, phone. We drain it on your driveway, whether that is around Colt Hill or out in Odiham. Night-time empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
On the road in Colt Hill with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the top-up. London Road, say, or the route to Winchester — a trip of under 25 miles.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the further the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Pull in safely — that is the first step — then switch it off. Service stations farther on can wait: from the M3, under 3 miles out of Colt Hill, take the next junction. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone, saying how far the car was driven.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a motor you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Hampshire, no one is safe from it.
The upshot: just as above, split by if it ran, but with an added step. Any work on the car frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Hanging on for an answer at the car park at Hook, or near Stocks? Leave the engine off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Colt Hill
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Mayhill Junior School in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's driveway out in Potbridge.
Put simply: spillage near your filler leaves the engine unharmed. In your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in the tank would be drawn in by starting the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't fire it up. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Colt Hill shares these stages
No matter the case, a single start is used. Three things are asked when our technicians reach your car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street beside Church of the All Saints or the car park outside The Waterwitch: the fluid, the quantity, and whether it has run. Answers shape the job; the price comes by phone whilst nobody has left yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after this drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next comes the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. Before our technicians go, it's tested to make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel. Our engineers do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been noticed early. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many policies include misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Colt Hill, for a moment
Colt Hill is a locality situated on the riverside in Hampshire, with an elevation of 84 metres. Colt Hill lies near the towns of Odiham and Winchester, and is also close to the villages of Broad Oak and North Warnborough. Colt Hill is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, and is home to a population of around 903 residents. Colt Hill is located 38.8 miles from London, making it a potential commuter base.
AdBlue drains across Hampshire, Colt Hill included
Broad Oak and North Warnborough get the same teams as Colt Hill, a small village, along with other places throughout RG postcodes. A postcode starting RG29 1 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Colt Hill or a layby towards Odiham Common: wherever it is, your car never needs to move at all for us. The drain is done right there. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near The Pest House or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the car off then ring. Run already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever it is, in Colt Hill and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.