Frieth: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of that hinges on a single fact: whether your engine has been run after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Over in Moor End or here in Frieth, an unrun motor should remain unrun. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out just where your vehicle stands around Frieth. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, yes, yet the identical first step.
Further down: the cases our technicians meet, wherever in Buckinghamshire. Pick yours.
At the petrol pump around Frieth: AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, nozzle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Somewhere around Frieth, then — Texaco, Asda, or somewhere else nearby.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
What to do: do not get back in and start the vehicle to clear the petrol pump. Three jobs: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the receipt kept, and a call to us from the forecourt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Frieth drive?
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle from the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it was just at the recycling that the cap got your eye. Driveways close to Innings Road get it as much as any other street.
Put simply: if the vehicle hasn't been driven since, it's almost equal to finding out at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and stays there, no matter how long the night.
Next: prevent an early-morning move by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. In Little Frieth or here in Frieth, the draining is done at your drive. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Frieth?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two after the fill. It might have been driving for Oxford, under 25 miles away, or just down Frieth Hill.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and lines to begin with, then the injection pump and every injector. More driving, more restarts: further it goes.
What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Service stations farther along are too far: from the M40, under 3 miles out of Frieth, use the next junction. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us know the distance driven when you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just driven the car for days. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap sits right next to the diesel. Across Buckinghamshire, nobody is immune.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, but with one added step. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us second, since sorting it beforehand cuts time. Stranded by Frieth Village Hall or at Marlow till the firm answers, the car remains switched off throughout.
Frieth: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. A slight ammonia whiff hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. A hurried top-up by the gates of Frieth Church of England Combined School, or a visit to a friend in Moor Common: either fits.
In short: spillage near your filler leaves the engine unharmed. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't start the car. Checking a tank that proves clean beats draining one after it has been run — so phone then describe to us what you saw.
Every AdBlue drain around Frieth shares these stages
The job begins the same way, whatever the situation. Anywhere your car is — Yew Tree's car park, a street beside St John the Evangelist, a driveway, a filling station — the van gets there and we ask for the fluid, the amount, plus if the engine has turned over. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear the price, and those replies decide the work too.
Draining the tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Last are the fuel filter, flushed or replaced if necessary; fresh diesel; and a test of your vehicle. If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Finally, we fire it up. Our engineers make sure it runs correctly on new diesel before we leave. Our engineers do the entire job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very rare when it has been spotted soon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Frieth
Frieth is a small village in Buckinghamshire, situated in the Chiltern Hills at an elevation of 177 metres. Frieth lies approximately 20 miles from Oxford and 32 miles from London, making it a rural retreat within commuting distance of major cities. Frieth is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and surrounding countryside, with nearby places including Little Frieth, Parmoor, and Goddards.
Frieth and Buckinghamshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Parmoor and Goddards get the same vans as Frieth, a rural village, plus further towns over RG postcodes. A postcode starting RG9 6 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Hill's Wood, or right in the centre of Frieth, your vehicle remains put — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Our van empties it in place. Tricky to explain? Close to Skirmett Village Hall or a border? Checking is better than guessing, and so ring.
The one-line version
Where it has not run, ring and leave it off. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Buckinghamshire and within Frieth — after you pull over, switch off then phone, if it's run.