AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Hayes Park: What Now?
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether your motor has started since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Anywhere your car stands — Thicket Mead, Hayes Park — never start an engine that hasn't been started yet. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. In Hayes Park, such a case is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. Already run? Pull over once safe, then switch everything off. Step one remains the same, even though the work is bigger.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Somerset it happened.
Hayes Park forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Picture it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the nozzle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Anywhere around Hayes Park, then — Esso, Tesco, or somewhere else close by.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Just that tank holds AdBlue; not one part beyond it has taken any in.
What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Emptying it there at the pump is possible if it cannot be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Hayes Park drive?
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Just off Hayes Park Road is not different from any other place.
Meaning? As long as the vehicle hasn't been driven since, it is second to the pump case. On the floor of that tank is where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by changes no difference.
Put the keys in the house tonight — otherwise a person might drive it away first thing — then phone us. Your drive is where it gets emptied, be it in Hayes Park or Midsomer Norton. The equipment runs quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
On the road around Hayes Park with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, drove away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere along St John's Crescent or else heading towards Bath — under 10 miles away.
The upshot: the system has pulled AdBlue in by now. The injection pump and every injector get it too on a bigger trip, once the filter and lines have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: stop somewhere sensible, then turn the motor off. Hayes Park sits under 15 miles from the M32; on it, pull off at the next junction rather than pushing on for the services. It won't have cleared, so there is no sense starting it again to find out. Roughly what distance had it go? Say so when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
Seven days ago, the car was new to you. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you happen to be around Somerset, any driver could slip up.
In short: an extra stage on top of the situations above, which turn on if it has run. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. Keep the vehicle off while the reply arrives, whether you are parked at Oldfield Park or near Midsomer Norton Children's Centre.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Hayes Park
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia-like whiff hangs around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. The gates of Midsomer Norton Primary School in a rush, say, or a friend's drive over in Belle Vue.
Put simply: spillage round your filler leaves the motor no harm. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, starting the car will suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Your move: behave as though it got in, and never start the motor. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Hayes Park AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Three questions come when our engineers reach your car — at a forecourt, a drive, a road by St John the Baptist or the car park at White Hart Hotel: the liquid, the quantity, and whether it has been started. Those replies determine the work, and you hear our price on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then that tank is cleared and the 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. Then comes the fuel filter — flushed, or swapped where needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour visit from the moment our technicians get there.
The final step is firing it up. Our check that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before our engineers head off. Our engineers do the whole job where the vehicle is, and long-term damage is very rare if it has been spotted early. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth knowing: many insurers include misfuelling cover, so a check of your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Hayes Park, for a moment
Hayes Park is a suburban area in Somerset, situated near the River Avon and close to the city of Bath. Hayes Park sits at an elevation of around 95 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Hayes Park is located near several other places, including Midsomer Norton, Greenhill, and Providence Place, and is around 8.5 miles from Bath. Hayes Park has a population of approximately 5666 residents.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Hayes Park included
Over BA postcodes, the vans serving Hayes Park — a residential suburb — work nearby towns as well, Greenhill and Providence Place included. Giving us a BA3 2 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to West Clewes Recreation Ground or in a car park in the middle of Hayes Park, it does not need to move. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. Awkward to explain? By Catholic Church XV Cent Tithe Barn or a border? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
Your scenario, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off then ring. Run already: pull over, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Hayes Park or anywhere in Somerset.