What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Foxhills
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if your engine has run since it was put in. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether your car is around Foxhills itself or out in Hounsdown. Leave the engine and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Foxhills. Already started? Pull over when safe, then turn it off. It's a bigger job, yet stage one does not change.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, wherever around Hampshire. Pick yours.
Foxhills forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Only now, nozzle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. It might be the Esso, or perhaps the Morrisons, or another forecourt in Foxhills.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it gets. Still inside the tank, with nothing drawn through: that is where the AdBlue is.
Next: resist the urge to start it just to move away from the petrol pump. Have the staff to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us from there. Stuck by the pump? Our explosion-proof equipment keeps a live forecourt sensible, so we can drain the car in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Foxhills
On your dash, a warning had been lit all week. 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. Driveways close to Whartons Lane get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? Provided the car hasn't moved since, it's close to the pump case. At the bottom of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue waits, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Put your keys in the house overnight — or someone might take it off at breakfast — then call us. Colbury or Foxhills: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets drained. Late-night empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Foxhills?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been heading for Southampton, under 5 miles away, or simply along Foxhills.
The upshot: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a longer run, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. More driving, more starts: further it goes.
Pull in somewhere safe — that's the next step — then turn everything off. On the Nursling Spur Motorway, under 3 miles from Foxhills, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Let us hear the mileage driven as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've just had this vehicle a week. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside your diesel. Wherever you are across Hampshire, any motorist can slip up.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on if it has run. Many hire and fleet contracts need the owner's approval for work.
Settling it before we turn up is faster, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Hanging on for a reply in the car park at Ashurst New Forest, or near Christ Church, Colbury? Leave the car off throughout.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Foxhills?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think it did. What cap came off, you cannot say; but the bottle weighs less than expected, and ammonia lingers by your filler. A rushed top-up by the gates of Foxhills Infant School, or a visit to a friend in Rushington: both fits.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no harm to your engine. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Starting your car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not crank it. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain in Foxhills shares these steps
The job opens the same way, whatever your situation. Three things come when our technicians reach the car — on a filling station, a drive, a road beside Longdown Activity Farm or the car park outside Forest Inn: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Replies shape the job; the quote comes on the call whilst nobody has left yet.
Then the tank is drained and your system cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Finally come your filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the vehicle. Not started? In that case about half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Our engineers start it at the end. Before we leave, it's tested to make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel. Our technicians do the entire job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very uncommon when it has been noticed soon. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Foxhills and where it is
Foxhills is a suburban area located near the coast in Hampshire, with Foxhills sitting close to the major city of Southampton. Foxhills has a relatively low elevation of 12 metres above sea level and Foxhills is home to around 1294 residents. Foxhills is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, with Foxhills being situated near other local places such as Colbury and Ashurst.
AdBlue drains in Foxhills, and across Hampshire too
Over SO postcodes, the vans covering Foxhills — a residential suburb — work surrounding places too, Ashurst Bridge and Ashurst among them. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode that starts SO40 7.
No moving is needed, whether stopped in the centre of Foxhills or on a lay-by en route to Ashurst Recreation Ground, so keep it where it is. Draining happens right there. Phone and check instead of guessing if you're close to Hounsdown Community Hall, near a boundary, or somewhere tricky to explain.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off then ring. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across Hampshire and within Foxhills — after you pull over, switch off and ring, if it has run.