What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Everlands
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has been started since. Not run yet? Then leave the vehicle like that, wherever the car sits — Everlands or Kingshill. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, done right where your car sits in Everlands. Already started? Stop once safe, then turn everything off. A larger job, then, yet the same first move.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, anywhere around Gloucestershire. Choose the one that fits.
On a Everlands forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Texaco, Shell or anywhere else in Everlands, the case is the same.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. No pump has drawn it through, and so the AdBlue stays just in your tank.
Freeing the petrol pump is no excuse to start it — so do not get back in. Get the attendants to lend a hand rolling it to a space, hold on to the receipt, then phone us right there. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home in Everlands with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Drives near Willow Close see it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: no miles since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Put your keys in the house overnight — or a person might drive it off at breakfast — then call us. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that's around Everlands or out in Upper Cam. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
On the road around Everlands with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Riverside, perhaps, or the way to Gloucester — a trip of under 15 miles.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. It has been through the filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. Every restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the first step — then turn everything off. Services further on can wait: on the M5, under 3 miles out of Everlands, take the next junction. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone, and say what distance the car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have only driven the car for days. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you are across Gloucestershire, every motorist could be caught.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies too — run or unrun — and one further step. The owner frequently has to sign off the work, under many rental and company agreements.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. Keep it switched off as the reply arrives, even if you're waiting at Cam & Dursley or close to Cam War Memorial.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Everlands?
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. Too light, the bottle; a trace of ammonia round your filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Look familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Cam Everlands Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Sandpits.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no damage to the motor. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. Firing up the vehicle will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would draw it in.
Do this: behave as though it did, and don't start the motor. Phone with the details: we'd sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one after your engine has been run.
What each AdBlue drain in Everlands has in common
The work opens the same way, whatever the situation. Three questions are asked when our engineers reach your car — at a forecourt, a drive, a street beside St George's Church or the car park at The Railway: the liquid, the amount, and if it has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our price, and those answers decide the work too.
Emptying that tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long you wait. Last are the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your vehicle. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Our technicians start the engine last. Our engineers confirm it runs smoothly on new diesel before we leave. If it's spotted early, the car very rarely has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Everlands
Everlands is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Gloucestershire, with a relatively low elevation of around 50 metres. Everlands lies near several nearby places, including Upper Cam, Norman Hill, and Summerhayes, and is approximately 12.7 miles from Gloucester. Everlands has a population of around 4284 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Everlands is also within commuting distance to London, being around 96.6 miles away.
Everlands and Gloucestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout GL postcodes, the teams covering Everlands — a residential suburb — work nearby places too, Norman Hill and Summerhayes among them. A postcode starting GL11 5 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Holywell Orchard or in a car park in the middle of Everlands, it doesn't need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it is drained. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to 3C Community Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
The one-line version
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Everlands and anywhere in Gloucestershire on 0333 366 0103.