Drakes Broughton: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the motor has run afterwards. Out in Lower Wolverton or right around Drakes Broughton, an unrun engine should remain unrun. Normally this is draining and properly purging it on the spot in Drakes Broughton — and so keep the key and motor off and call 0333 366 0103. Already started? Stop once safe, then switch everything off. It's a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Wherever around Worcestershire it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Drakes Broughton forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
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 could be the the nearest petrol station, or the BP, or a different station around Drakes Broughton.
In short: no better spot to be to discover it. Nothing has drawn it through, so the AdBlue sits only in that tank.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the queue wants clearing. Ring us from the forecourt after your vehicle is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to push it — and save the receipt. If it cannot be moved, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Drakes Broughton drive?
Several days had passed with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. Drives near Shrubbery Road see it as much as anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle has not been driven since, it's nearly as good as spotting it at the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Stonebow or Drakes Broughton: whichever your drive is, that is where it gets cleared. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Drakes Broughton?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long your motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Greenfields Close, perhaps, or the way to Worcester — a run of under 10 miles.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: find a safe place, pull in, and turn the motor off. Exit by the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, under 5 miles from Drakes Broughton. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Roughly what distance did it gone? Say so when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Across Worcestershire, no one is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before we turn up than after. If you're stuck in the car park outside Pershore, or by St Barnabas, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Drakes Broughton?
Honestly, the only answer may be that you think so. Which cap was taken off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Barnabas CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Peopleton.
Put simply: a spill round your filler leaves your engine unharmed. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in the tank will be pulled in by starting your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Your move: act as though it got in, and don't start the engine. Phone with the details: we'd rather find a clean tank than empty one after the motor has run.
Drakes Broughton: what every AdBlue drain has in common
No matter the case, one opening is used. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Old Oak or a side street near Drakes Broughton Village Hall, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and if your engine has been run. The price is given over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies shape the job.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals form and certain metals corrode, and none of that washes out unaided. Clean diesel is put in once your filter is cleaned or changed, and your car is then tested. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Starting it comes last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we confirm it's running smoothly, and then we head off. The entire job is done where your car is, and when it is spotted soon, lasting damage is very unusual. 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 cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Drakes Broughton itself
Drakes Broughton is a village in Worcestershire, situated on the banks of the River Salwarpe at an elevation of 39 metres. Drakes Broughton lies approximately 6 miles south of Worcester and 95 miles west of London, with nearby settlements including Stonebow, Windmill Hill, and Walcot. Drakes Broughton has a population of around 1813 residents, predominantly living in detached housing.
AdBlue drains around Drakes Broughton, and across Worcestershire too
As a village, Drakes Broughton has the same vans as the nearby towns — Walcot, Windmill Hill — all the way through WR postcodes. Quickest of all: a WR10 2 postcode for where you stand.
Stopped en route to Tagg Coppice, or right in the centre of Drakes Broughton, the vehicle stays where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Our van drains it in place. Tricky to explain? Close to Saint Nicholas or a county line? Checking is better than guessing, so ring.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off then ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, across Drakes Broughton and Worcestershire, on 0333 366 0103.