AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ettington: What Now?
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the engine has run afterwards. Anywhere your vehicle is — Fulready, Ettington — don't run an engine that has not run yet. Leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Ettington. Pull over the moment you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. A bigger job, yes, yet the same opening step.
Compare your case to one of the ones below, wherever around Warwickshire you are.
At the pump in Ettington: AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. Whether Murco, Gulf or somewhere else around Ettington, the case is identical.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. Just that tank has AdBlue; not one part past it has drawn any in.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump wants freeing. Ask the staff to help you push the vehicle into a parking spot, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the petrol pump is fine if it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Ettington with 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'd used on the driveway. Drives near Banbury Road see it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the car hasn't been driven since, it is second to the forecourt case. On the bottom of your tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night going by makes nothing of the difference.
Next: prevent any early move by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. In Pillerton Priors or right here in Ettington, the draining happens at your drive. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
Ettington: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A mile or two after filling up, the motor started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Possibly it was on Churchill Close, maybe on the way out towards Coventry, under 25 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Through your filter, through the pipework, and — the further the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. On the M40, under 10 miles from Ettington, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No trial restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have just had the car for days. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are across Warwickshire, any driver could slip up.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or company agreements.
Settling it before we arrives is faster, so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Keep the vehicle switched off as the answer comes, even if you're waiting at Stratford-upon-Avon or close to Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Ettington?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe at a friend's drive in Halford, or in a rush outside Ettington CofE Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills around the inlet don't reach the engine at all. If it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the car will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Assume it got in, and don't turn your engine. Ring and give the details: we would rather confirm a clean tank than empty one after the motor has run.
Ettington: what each AdBlue drain has in common
No matter the situation, a single opening is used. Filling station, drive, The Chequers Inn's car park or a street by Friends Meeting House — the van comes to your vehicle, and three questions follow: what fluid, which quantity, and if it ran. Replies shape the work; the price comes on the call while no one has left yet.
Then that tank is drained and the system rinsed thoroughly, which counts 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. Next is the filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit from the moment our technicians turn up.
Our engineers start the engine last. Before our engineers leave, it's checked to make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. If it's noticed early, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Payment is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Ettington, for a moment
Ettington is a rural village in Warwickshire, situated in the West Midlands region of England, with a population of around 1064 people. Ettington sits at an elevation of 107 metres, approximately 19 miles southeast of Coventry and 76 miles northwest of London. Ettington is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, with nearby villages including Pillerton Priors, Goldicote, and Pillerton Hersey. Ettington remains a quiet, residential community with a strong sense of rural identity.
AdBlue drains around Ettington and across Warwickshire
Goldicote and Pillerton Hersey have the same teams as Ettington, a rural village, plus further places throughout CV postcodes. Fastest of all: a CV37 7 postcode to show your location.
No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Ettington or in a lay-by heading to Hanging Hill Spinney, and so keep it put. Where it sits, that is where it gets drained. Assuming won't help beside Ettington Village Hall, on a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep it off and ring. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Warwickshire and in Ettington — once you pull over, turn off then ring, if it has run.