What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ducklington
Everything hinges on one fact: if your engine has been run since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Anywhere your vehicle is — Shores Green, Ducklington — don't start a motor that hasn't been started yet. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor both off. Across Ducklington, that is generally emptied and flushed where it stands. Where your engine has run, pull in safely straight away, then switch the car off. Step one stays unchanged, even though the work is bigger.
Compare your case to one of the list below, anywhere in Oxfordshire you are.
At the petrol pump around Ducklington: 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. Anywhere around Ducklington, then — Shell, Esso, or anywhere else close by.
Put simply: no better spot exists to spot it. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your car is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — and keep the bottle. Draining it there at the pump is possible when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Ducklington drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. 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. It occurs on drives just off Standlake Road as often as anywhere.
Put simply: if the car has not moved since, it is nearly equal to finding out at the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Your move: the keys indoors, so nobody takes your vehicle anywhere at breakfast. Then, ring. Your drive is where it is emptied, whether around Ducklington or Cogges. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Ducklington: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way after filling up, the motor started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, lights on your dash. It might have been heading to Oxford, under 10 miles away, or simply along Aston Road.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. It travels deeper with every extra mile covered and every restart.
Pull in safely — that's the first job — then turn everything off. On the M40, under 15 miles from Ducklington, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No trial restarts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Phone, and say how far the car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have only driven the vehicle for days. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet was right beside your diesel. Any driver, anywhere around Oxfordshire, might do the same.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, which turn on whether it's run. The owner often has to approve the work, under plenty of hire and company agreements.
Settling it before we turn up is quicker, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded by War Memorial or at Combe until the firm replies, the car remains turned off throughout.
Ducklington: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. It might have been at a friend's drive in Newland, or rushing outside Ducklington Primary School on the school run.
The point: the engine is not hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the filler. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Next: assume it got in, then keep the motor off. Checking a tank that turns out clean beats emptying one once it has been run — so ring then tell us what you noticed.
The common ground in every Ducklington AdBlue drain
The job opens the same way, whichever the case. We come to your car, whether it's on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at Bell Inn or a side street near Ducklington Village Hall, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if the engine has run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the answers shape the work.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, since crystals build up and certain metals corrode, and none of it rinses out unaided. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The final step is starting it. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we make sure it's running smoothly, and then we head off. Long-term damage is very unusual when it is caught quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Ducklington itself
Ducklington is a village in Oxfordshire, situated near the banks of the River Windrush and several lakes, at an elevation of around 80 metres. Ducklington lies approximately 9.7 miles west of Oxford and 60.8 miles west of London, with nearby villages including Cogges, Witney, and High Cogges. Ducklington has a population of around 1251 residents, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains in Ducklington, and across Oxfordshire too
Ducklington is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Witney and High Cogges among them, across the OX postcode area. Telling us a OX29 7 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Stopped en route to Glebelands, or bang in the heart of Ducklington, your vehicle remains where it is — there's no need to move it at all. The van drains it in place. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Saint Bartholomew's Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the car off and ring. Already run: stop, switch off and ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Ducklington and anywhere in Oxfordshire on 0333 366 0103.