What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Combe Common
All of that turns on one detail: whether the motor has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Out in Wormley or here in Combe Common, an unstarted engine should stay unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. Across Combe Common, such a case is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Where the engine has run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Match what happened to a situation from the list below, anywhere across Surrey you happen to be.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Combe Common forecourt
Just at this point, bottle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Perhaps you're at the Shell, maybe at the Royal Parade Stores, maybe somewhere else in Combe Common.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. Still inside the tank, with no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the pump needs freeing. A few jobs: a shove into a space with the staff assisting, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Combe Common drive?
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Just off Ridgley Road is no less likely from anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not been driven since, it's second to the pump case. At the bottom of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that is around Combe Common or out in Chiddingfold. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Combe Common?
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. Anywhere along Ash Combe or else on the road to Chichester — under 25 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. Distance decides how far it gets: filter and lines to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. Every restart, like each mile, carries it deeper.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, and turn your motor off. Leave by the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M3, under 15 miles from Combe Common. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Phone, saying how far the car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
A week back, the car was new to you. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are next to each other here — unlike your own car, which has none or keeps it in another spot. Anywhere you are around Surrey, any motorist could slip up.
In short: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those turn on if it has run. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, since sorting it early cuts time. Stuck near Chiddingfold Baptist Church or at Witley till the firm replies, your vehicle remains turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Combe Common?
"I think so" is often as honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of St Mary's Church of England Primary School in a rush, say, or someone's drive over in Sandhills.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never reach your engine at all. In your diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. Any AdBlue in the tank will be drawn in by turning on your car, and the start would not 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 free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Combe Common: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens the same way, whichever the situation. Anywhere your car is — The Villagers's car park, a street beside St Mary's Church (CofE) Chiddingfold, a drive, a forecourt — the van arrives and we ask about the fluid, the quantity, and if your motor has turned over. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told the quote, and those answers shape the work too.
Then the tank is cleared and your system purged 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 does not rinse out on its own. Clean diesel is put in once the filter is cleaned or changed, and the car is then checked. Not started? Then about half an hour on site is most jobs.
Starting the engine comes last. Our check that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before we head off. Lasting damage is very unusual when it's spotted quickly, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many policies cover misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Combe Common
Combe Common is a locality in Surrey, situated inland at an elevation of 86 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Combe Common is located near several nearby places, including Chiddingfold, Ramsnest Common, and Highstreet Green, and is approximately 19.9 miles from Chichester. Combe Common has a population of around 638 residents and is about 35.1 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Combe Common, and across Surrey too
Combe Common is a small village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Ramsnest Common and Highstreet Green among them, across the GU postcode area. Quickest of all: a GU8 4 postcode to show where you stand.
Parked en route to Woodlands Copse, or bang in the heart of Combe Common, the vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to move it at all. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets cleared. Assuming won't help beside The Villagers, on a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
In one line: your scenario
Unstarted? Leave the vehicle off then ring. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever it is, in Combe Common and Surrey, on 0333 366 0103.