--- title: Dunball: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, What Next canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/dunball-somerset/ location: Dunball county: Somerset latitude: 51.163770 longitude: -2.988390 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-28 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Dunball: What Now? What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has been run since it got in. Out in Chilton Trinity or right around Dunball, an unrun motor should stay that way. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine both off. Across Dunball, that is typically drained and cleaned on the spot. Stop the minute you safely can then turn off, if it has already run. Stage one stays unchanged, even though the work is bigger. Match your case to a situation from the ones below, anywhere across Somerset you are. ## AdBlue in a diesel on a Dunball forecourt The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you are stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. Somewhere around Dunball, then — BP, Shell, or somewhere else close by. The point: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. No pump has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue sits only in that tank. Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, however much the queue wants clearing. A few things: a push into a space with the staff assisting, the receipt saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Emptying it right at the pump is possible when it cannot be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof. ## Dunball, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank Days had passed with the warning light on. Picked up a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and at that point checked the cap a second time, after the fact. Drives near Bristol Road get it as much as any other street. The upshot: no driving since makes this nearly as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and remains put, however long it waits. Keep your keys in the house tonight — or someone may take it away first thing — and call us. We drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that's around Dunball or out in Down End. Our equipment runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night. ## On the road around Dunball with AdBlue in a diesel Topped up, drove away, and soon the engine was running unevenly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Perhaps it was on Dunball Industrial Estate, maybe on the way out towards Wells, under 25 miles away. In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It has been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. It travels further with every extra mile covered and each restart. Next: pick a sensible place, pull in, then switch your motor off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M5, under a mile from Dunball. It will not have cleared, so there's no point starting it again to find out. Phone, saying what distance your vehicle went. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car You have just driven this vehicle for days. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit next to each other here — unlike your own car, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Somerset. In short: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on if it has run. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under plenty of hire and company agreements. Settling it before we turn up is quicker, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stranded in the car park at Bridgwater, or by Somerset County Council-Highways Depot, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Dunball Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think it did. A slight ammonia-like smell lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. The gates of Puriton Primary School in a rush, say, or someone's drive out in Pawlett. Put simply: spillage near your filler does the motor no harm. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in that tank. What to do: treat it as if it got in. Don't fire it up. Phone and give the details: we'd sooner confirm a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your engine has been run. ## The common ground in each Dunball AdBlue drain The work begins the same way, whatever your situation. Filling station, drive, The Admirals Table's car park or a road by Caput Montis — the van comes to your car, and three questions follow: what liquid, which amount, and if it ran. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the answers shape the job. AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out on its own; that's why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last come the filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the vehicle. Not started? In that case about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs. Last, we fire it up. Before we leave, it is checked to confirm it runs correctly on fresh diesel. If it's caught soon, the vehicle very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over. ## About Dunball, for a moment Dunball is a small coastal hamlet in Somerset, situated near the mouth of the River Parrett and close to the M5 motorway. Dunball lies at a low elevation of around 7 metres, and its detached houses are a common feature of the local landscape. Dunball is located near other small settlements such as Down End and Puriton, and is within commuting distance of the city of Wells. Dunball is also relatively close to the Somerset Levels, an area of flat wetland terrain, ## AdBlue drains across Somerset, Dunball included Walpole and Puriton have the same vans as Dunball, a rural hamlet, along with further towns throughout TA postcodes. Your location is clearest from a postcode that starts TA6 4. No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Dunball or in a layby en route to Eleven Acre Covert, so leave it put. We drain the car where it sits. Tricky to explain? Close to St Michael and All Angels or a county line? Asking is better than guessing, so phone. ## In one line: your situation Where it hasn't started, ring and leave it off. Started already? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, across Dunball and Somerset, on 0333 366 0103.