Field Common: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This single question settles almost everything else from here. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Field Common itself or out in Hurst Park. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. In Field Common, such a case is generally drained and flushed on the spot. Already run? Stop once you safely can, then turn everything off. Step one remains unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Compare your case to one of the ones below, wherever around Surrey you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Field Common forecourt
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it the nearest petrol station, BP or anywhere else in Field Common, the case is identical.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. Still in the tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, even if the queue needs clearing. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the pump is fine if it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Field Common
On your dash, a reminder had shown for days. A bottle from the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it was only at the recycling that the cap caught your eye. It occurs on drives just off Westfield Road as commonly as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not been driven since, it is close to the forecourt case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: the keys indoors, and so no one takes your car anywhere first thing. After that, ring. Rydens or Field Common: wherever your drive sits, that is where it is emptied. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Field Common?
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. It might have been driving to Westminster, under 15 miles away, or simply along Homefield Road.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, once the fuel filter and lines have had it. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Exit by the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M3, under 3 miles from Field Common. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone, and say what distance your car went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a motor you have had for a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is right by your diesel cap — a surprise to you. Throughout Surrey, no one is immune.
The point: just as above, divided by whether it ran, but with one added step. Many hire and company contracts need the owner's approval before work.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before we arrive than after. Stuck near Esher Rugby Club or at Hersham till someone replies, the vehicle stays switched off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Field Common?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. What cap was taken off, you cannot recall; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of Walton Oak Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or a friend's drive over in Esher.
In short: a spill round your filler leaves your engine no harm. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. Any AdBlue in the tank will be sucked in by turning on the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Do this: act as though it did, and don't start your engine. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clear tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
Every AdBlue drain around Field Common shares these steps
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three things come once we reach your car — on a forecourt, a driveway, a street by St John or the car park outside the pub in the village: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. Those answers settle the work, and you hear our price by phone, before anybody sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't wash out unaided; that's why a full flush, after the drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job after the moment our technicians turn up.
Our engineers start the car at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before our engineers head off. The whole job is done where your car is, and when it is caught early, lasting damage is very rare. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Field Common
Field Common is a lakeside locality in Surrey, situated near the River Thames and close to several nearby places including Rydens, Lower Green, and West Molesey. Field Common has a relatively low elevation of around 12 metres and is located approximately 13.9 miles from London. Field Common is predominantly composed of flat housing, which is typical of many areas in the South East region. Field Common is a small community with a population of around 1116 residents.
Field Common and Surrey: AdBlue drains across the area
Lower Green and West Molesey have the identical vans as Field Common, a small village, along with further places over KT postcodes. A postcode starting KT12 3 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Weylands House or in a car park in the middle of Field Common, it does not need to move. The van drains it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Hersham Baptist Church or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, summed up
If it has not run, phone and keep it off. Run already: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Field Common or wherever in Surrey.