Dymock: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
With AdBlue in the diesel tank, the ignition stays off and so does your engine. In plain terms, AdBlue is simply urea in water. It doesn't burn, it doesn't mix with diesel, and the harm it does starts when the system pulls it in. In Dymock, AdBlue in a diesel tank caught before the engine runs normally means a drain and a thorough flush, just where the vehicle is. Before you do anything else, phone 0333 366 0103.
Dymock, AdBlue in your diesel tank: what to do right away
Do these:
- Keys out — that way nobody can switch anything on.
- Hazards on, if moving traffic is at all near.
- Keep the till receipt or the empty bottle, and so you can tell us what went in and roughly how much.
- Call us from where you are. A postcode starting GL18 2, or the name of the nearest street, brings our van to you without a search.
Do not:
- Not even briefly, and not to shift the vehicle: the motor stays off.
- Turning your key to ignition by itself starts the pump running on plenty of diesels. Avoid it.
- Do not top up with diesel to dilute it. AdBlue doesn't dilute in diesel; it separates out.
- Keep the vehicle where it is instead of driving it anywhere, even a short stretch along Kempley Road.
- Emptying the tank on your own by the road isn't worth trying.
Get the people behind the counter to help you roll the car off the pumps if you are on a forecourt around Dymock, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or somewhere else. On that drive, the car stays exactly as it was left.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
Meant for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in the motor. From a separate reservoir it is fed directly to your exhaust, cleaning what the engine emits. Nothing in it is meant to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is built to handle it.
Inside a diesel tank it acts very differently from fuel. It doesn't mix in. It's heavier than diesel, so it sinks and collects at the bottom of your tank, which is where the pickup sucks fuel from. The first thing the system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a motor that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Greenway last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of the tank, and nothing has pulled it in.
After it's sucked in, the damage comes in two forms. As its water goes, the urea left behind crystallises, and the crystals block filters and settle in fine passages. And it is corrosive to some of the metals a fuel system is made from, and so it keeps running on the components it reaches for as long as it stays there. Overnight, a car sitting in Dymock with AdBlue in its lines gets worse; where it is just in the tank, it doesn't. The water in it causes damage of its own: the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors depend on diesel to lubricate them, and water offers them nothing.
Why AdBlue in a diesel is regularly more major than petrol
Petrol pumped into a diesel on Gulf's forecourt leaves the fuel thin — that's the main fault. No damage is done while it stays put, blended into your diesel — only once the motor runs on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is a fault of the wrong substance altogether. Not burning, it can't simply be run through. Deposits and corrosion stay after the following fill, and AdBlue splits again out of the diesel, so watering it won't work. That is why the flush counts so much, and turning the key "to see" costs more with AdBlue than almost any other mistake — in Castletump or the centre of Dymock alike.
As with petrol, there's good news. Emptying a tank is the easiest part on any fuel system, and with no running, the AdBlue remains in there — anywhere across Gloucestershire the car has stopped.
Dymock: how AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank
Plenty of motors put the AdBlue cap alongside the diesel cap, now and then behind a single flap, and after dark the two can appear identical. No one means it. Most of the time it occurs with a bottle bought on the way home and poured in on the drive, not at the forecourt.
It tends to happen in a couple of familiar ways. Hurrying, outside Ann Cam Church of England Primary School, after a warning light came on during the school run, someone tops up the car. In the evening, a bottle is tipped in on a driveway near Western Way. Or someone new to that flap tops up the car in dim light, stopped in the car park by Beauchamp Arms.
It happens most in the vehicles people know least: a hire car, a new car, a company car, or the second motor of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Wherever across Gloucestershire, Dymock as well, the slip does not change, and neither does the first step: leave it off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Dymock, and the motor started?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. It's been pulled through the fuel filter and the fuel lines, and if the engine ran for any time, it has got to the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors.
Lumpy running, smoke from the exhaust, lost power, dashboard warnings or cutting out: each may appear, maybe midway across Dymock or returning from Dymock Grange Golf Club. Once safe, pull over and switch everything off — with no restarting to test. Every start pulls more of that through.
On the M50, under a mile from Dymock, the first junction is where to exit, and anywhere sensible is where to park — not driving on.
How far it went counts. A couple of hundred yards across Dymock to the car park by War memorial is a very different job from a run towards Gloucester, under 15 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into your system with each mile. Approximately how far had it come? Tell us.
We do all of the cleaning where the car has come to a stop, and once your engine has been started there is more of it. Very rarely does it leave long-term damage when it is caught soon.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve around Dymock?
The car remains put, whether that is a street beside Saint Mary, a driveway, a lay-by or a forecourt in Dymock, and our van comes to it. The job depends on three replies, which we ask for first — what went in, the amount, and if the motor has run.
On the spot, that tank is then emptied, and all of the contaminated diesel and the urea leave at once. Residue from AdBlue won't wash away by itself, so the fuel system gets a careful flush, which matters much more here than for petrol. Clean diesel goes in once the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, if it needs to be — and then the car is tested. Roughly half an hour on site is typical for most jobs when the motor hasn't run. Low-noise enough for use outside a house at night, and fine on a busy forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
The final step is to bleed the fuel system on new diesel. Whether it's a parking space at Ledbury or a driveway in Dymock, that is where our engineers start it and you set off. The test before we go is that it runs properly on new diesel. The entire job is done where the car is, so it never needs to go to a garage. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report after that, which is what insurers want.
About Dymock and where it is
Dymock is a village in Gloucestershire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 42 metres. Dymock lies near the cities of Gloucester and the surrounding countryside, with nearby places including Shakesfield, The Pound, and Tillers Green. Dymock has a population of approximately 588 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Dymock and Gloucestershire
Throughout the GL postcode area, the teams answering AdBlue call-outs around Dymock serve much of Gloucestershire as well, Shakesfield, The Pound and Tillers Green included. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask rather than guessing.
No moving is needed. In Dymock, a village, a mobile service works: the car is emptied where it stands, be it on a drive, a residential street, a parking area or a filling station.
Dymock: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
Because each jobs differ, a flat price wouldn't be honest. Three things move the price: whether your engine has run and for how long, how much AdBlue went in, and where your car is. That last one comes down to whether our van can reach it safely, and an open drive is easier than a tight spot behind Dymock Parish Hall.
That is why each call from Dymock starts with the same three questions, asked before giving a figure, not after: what went in, how much, and if it's run. Those answers shrink a range down to a single figure.
Before a van sets off, you hear the price on the phone. And payment is on the day, card or over the phone, with nothing in advance. Misfuelling cover comes with plenty of insurance policies, so it is worth looking at yours before the van gets there.
Next to the car in Dymock, right now?
Then, the best thing to do with your car is to not touch it. Motor off, keys out, ignition off. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Dymock or anywhere within Gloucestershire, after you call 0333 366 0103 saying it's AdBlue, about what quantity, and whether it ran.