What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Great Bedwyn
Has the engine run since the AdBlue was put in? This single question settles nearly everything about what comes next. Anywhere your car is — Crofton, Great Bedwyn — don't run an engine that hasn't run yet. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and motor still off. In Great Bedwyn, such a case is typically drained and flushed where it stands. Pull over the minute you safely can then switch off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Wiltshire it happened.
At the pump around Great Bedwyn: 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 Esso, Smiths of Axford or anywhere else in Great Bedwyn, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. Still inside the tank, with no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to run it — so do not get back in. Get the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us right there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed clear gets drained where it is at the petrol pump.
At home in Great Bedwyn with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Houses just off Church Street get hit as often as everywhere else.
Meaning? As long as the car has not moved since, it is second to the pump case. On the bottom of that tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that's around Great Bedwyn or out in Jockey Green. Late-night clears beside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Great Bedwyn?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the fill. Maybe driving to Salisbury, under 25 miles away, or simply down Brook Street.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into your fuel system. The high-pressure pump and each injector see it as well on a bigger trip, after your filter and lines have had it. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, and turn the motor off. On the M4, under 10 miles from Great Bedwyn, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Let us know the distance driven as you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had this vehicle hardly a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap was just next to the diesel. Throughout Wiltshire, nobody is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Many hire and fleet contracts need the owner's approval for work.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since settling it beforehand cuts time. Keep it off as the answer comes, whether you are parked at Bedwyn or close to Parish church of Saint Mary, Great Bedwyn.
Great Bedwyn: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. A faint ammonia-like whiff lingers near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. The gates of Great Bedwyn Church of England School in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's driveway over in Newtown.
The point: the engine is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed on the filler. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Firing up the car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will suck it in.
Next: assume it got in, and keep your engine off. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats emptying one once it has been run — so ring and tell us what you noticed.
What every AdBlue drain in Great Bedwyn has in common
The job opens identically, whatever your case. Our engineers come to the car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside Three Tuns or a side street near Great Bedwyn Village Hall, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether the engine has been run. Your price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers shape the work.
Draining the tank comes next, then a full flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Next is the fuel filter — cleaned, or replaced where needed — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the car. Where your engine hasn't been started, allow about half an hour on site, for most jobs.
The last step is firing it up. Our check that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. The entire job is done where your car is, and when it is caught early, permanent damage is very rare. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Great Bedwyn
Great Bedwyn is a village in Wiltshire, situated on the banks of the River Dun, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other types of homes. Great Bedwyn sits at an elevation of 124 metres, near the villages of Jockey Green, Chisbury, and Little Bedwyn. Great Bedwyn is located approximately 23 miles from Salisbury and 64 miles from London, making it a rural community with access to larger cities. Great Bedwyn has a population of around 1194 people, living in a variety of housing types, predominantly semi-detached homes.
AdBlue drains around Great Bedwyn and across Wiltshire
Over SN postcodes, the teams covering Great Bedwyn — a village — work nearby towns as well, Chisbury and Little Bedwyn included. A postcode starting SN8 3 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Bedwyn Cricket Pitch or in a car park in the middle of Great Bedwyn, it does not need to shift. We drain the vehicle where it stands. Guessing doesn't help beside Chisbury Chapel, on a county line or anywhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
Your scenario, summed up
Unstarted? Keep the car that way then phone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Great Bedwyn or anywhere across Wiltshire.