Hengrove: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has been started afterwards. Anywhere your car is — Knowle Park, Hengrove — never start an engine that has not run yet. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where your car stands around Hengrove. Already started? Pull over when you safely can, then switch everything off. It is a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Anywhere around Bristol it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
On a Hengrove forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're 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 Asda, Tesco or somewhere else in Hengrove, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. Only the tank has AdBlue; no component past it has drawn any in.
Next: avoid the temptation to start it only to free up the pump. Have the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us right there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away gets drained right at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Hengrove drive?
On the dash, a warning had shown 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 again at the cap. Right off Stavordale Grove is no less likely from any other place.
In short: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's almost equal to finding out at the forecourt. On the bottom of your tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. We drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that's in Hengrove or out in Hengrove Park. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Hengrove: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way after filling up, your motor started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. It might have been heading for Bristol, under 3 miles away, or simply along New Meadows.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. Distance decides how deep it gets: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that is the first step — then turn everything off. Service stations further on can wait: from the M32, under 5 miles out of Hengrove, take the next junction. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. About how far did it go? Tell us as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a motor you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you happen to be in Bristol, every motorist could be caught.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the cases above, and those depend on if it's run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, because settling it early cuts time. If you're stranded in the car park at Bedminster, or by 82nd Bristol Scout Group, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Hengrove
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest answer there is. A faint ammonia whiff lingers around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. The gates of Perry Court E-ACT Academy in a rush, say, or a friend's drive out in Lower Knowle.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Don't start the vehicle. 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.
Hengrove: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the case, one opening is used. Filling station, driveway, The Whitchurch's car park or a street beside Whitchurch Library — our van reaches the vehicle, and three answers follow: which fluid, what amount, and whether it ran. Those answers determine the work, and you get our quote by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then your tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Our technicians start the engine last. Our test that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before we leave. Long-term damage is very unusual if it's noticed quickly, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. It is worth remembering: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents while we travel pays.
About Hengrove, briefly
Hengrove is a suburban area located in the south of Bristol, approximately 2.9 miles from the city centre. Hengrove sits at an elevation of 57 metres, in a relatively flat area of the city, and is close to several local parks, including Hengrove Park and Filwood Park. Hengrove is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which reflects the area's development as a residential suburb. Hengrove is also situated near the nearby suburb of Whitchurch, and is around 105 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains about Hengrove and across Bristol
Over BS postcodes, the teams covering Hengrove — a residential suburb — reach surrounding towns too, Whitchurch and Filwood Park included. A postcode starting BS14 9 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Briery Leaze Road Open Space or in a car park in the middle of Hengrove, it does not need to move. Where it stands, that's where it gets emptied. Phone and ask rather than guess if you are by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Motor not started: ring, leaving it alone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Hengrove and anywhere around Bristol on 0333 366 0103.