East Ilsley: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the motor has been started since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is in East Ilsley itself or out in Beedon. Usually this is emptying and properly flushing it on the spot around East Ilsley — so leave the ignition and engine off then call 0333 366 0103. Already started? Pull over once safe, then switch everything off. It is a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Berkshire it happened.
On a East Ilsley forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the filler you opened wasn't the right one. It might be the Texaco, or the Shell, or another forecourt in East Ilsley.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. Still in the tank, with nothing pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up only to free up the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt once the car sits in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — then save the receipt. Draining it there at the petrol pump is fine when it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
East Ilsley, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had used at the driveway. It takes place on driveways just off Fidler's Lane as often as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside the tank and waits. One night standing alters nothing.
Next: the keys indoors, and so nobody drives the vehicle anywhere first thing. After that, ring. West Ilsley or East Ilsley: whichever your driveway is, that's where it gets emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road around East Ilsley with AdBlue in a diesel
Filled up, drove away, and before long your motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Anywhere along Farriers Lane or on the road towards Oxford — under 25 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. Past your filter, along the lines, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: further it travels.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the next job — then switch everything off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M4, under 5 miles from East Ilsley. It won't have cleared, so there is no sense restarting to find out. Let us hear the distance driven as you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had the car hardly a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is right next to your diesel cap — a surprise to you. Wherever you happen to be in Berkshire, every driver could be caught.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or unrun — and one further step. Any work on your car often needs the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stranded by St Mary or outside Didcot Parkway till the firm replies, your car remains switched off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, East Ilsley?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest answer there is. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; no clear memory of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of The Ilsleys Primary School in a hurry, say, or a friend's driveway out in Beedon Hill.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no harm to the motor. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in your tank would be pulled in by turning on the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it went in, then keep the motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each East Ilsley AdBlue drain
The job begins the same way, whatever your situation. Forecourt, drive, Crown and Horns's car park or a street by All Saints — the van comes to the car, and three questions follow: which fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run. The price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the job.
Then that tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced where needed — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. Never started? Then roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
The last step is firing it up. Our check that it runs properly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. When it's caught early, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Payment comes on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About East Ilsley, for a moment
East Ilsley is a small village in Berkshire, situated inland at an elevation of 114 metres, approximately 50 miles west of London. East Ilsley lies near the boundary with Oxfordshire, close to the villages of West Ilsley and Compton. East Ilsley has a population of around 599 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. East Ilsley is also within commuting distance of Oxford, which is about 15 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Berkshire, East Ilsley included
Stanmore and Compton have the identical teams as East Ilsley, a rural village, along with further places throughout RG postcodes. Quickest of all: a RG20 7 postcode for your location.
No moving is needed, be it parked centrally in East Ilsley or on a lay-by heading to East Ilsley (Millennium Green), so leave it where it is. The van empties it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, near West Ilsley Village Hall or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, in one line
Where it has not run, ring and keep it off. Run already: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in East Ilsley or anywhere in Berkshire.