AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Highfield, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on one detail: whether your motor has been run since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Out in Puckshole or right around Highfield, an unstarted motor should remain that way. Leave your motor and your ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Highfield. Already started? Stop when you safely can, then turn everything off. A bigger job, then, yet the identical opening step.
Further down: the situations our engineers see, wherever across Gloucestershire. Choose the one that fits.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Highfield forecourt
Just now, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Whether Esso, Tesco or somewhere else in Highfield, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle sits in a space — the attendants will help push it — and keep the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed away is drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Highfield
For days the dash had been nagging you. 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. It occurs on driveways just off Hillfield as commonly as anywhere.
The point: no miles since leaves it nearly as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. At the floor of the tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Put the keys indoors tonight — or someone might take it away at breakfast — then phone us. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Highfield or Park End. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Highfield?
A mile or two beyond filling up, your motor began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. It might have been driving to Gloucester, under 10 miles away, or just along Marling Crescent.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Mileage decides how deep it goes: filter and lines to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up somewhere sensible, then switch the motor off. Highfield lies under 5 miles from the M5; there, come off at the next junction instead of pressing on to the services. It won't have cleared, and so there is no point starting it again to check. Call us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you are in Gloucestershire, every motorist could slip up.
In short: one extra step on top of the cases above, which turn on if it has run. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements need the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager first, us next, since settling it beforehand saves time. If you're stuck in the car park outside Stroud, or by Church of the Holy Spirit, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Highfield
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. A rushed top-up by the gates of St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, or a visit to a friend in Hamwell Leaze: either fits.
The point: your motor is not harmed by a little AdBlue splashed around the filler. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the vehicle would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: behave as if it did, and don't start your motor. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank checked is a happier outcome than a run one drained.
Highfield: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens identically, whichever the case. Our technicians come to the car, whether it is on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside The Old Crown or a side street close to Maypole Hall, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and if the engine has run. Answers shape the work; the price follows on the call whilst nobody has left yet.
Then the tank is drained and your system cleaned thoroughly, which counts 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. Clean diesel goes in once the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally tested. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up last. Our technicians check it runs properly on fresh diesel before leaving. Our engineers do the entire job where your car is, and permanent damage is very rare when it has been spotted quickly. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Highfield and where it is
Highfield is a suburban area located on the riverside in Gloucestershire, with a relatively low elevation of 73 metres. Highfield sits near the city of Gloucester, approximately 8 miles away, and is close to other nearby places such as Park End and Cainscross. Highfield has a population of around 4909 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Highfield is situated in the South West region of England, about 92 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains round Highfield and across Gloucestershire
As a residential suburb, Highfield has the same vans as the nearby towns — Paganhill, Cainscross — all the way across GL postcodes. Fastest of all: a GL5 4 postcode to show where you stand.
Central Highfield or a layby near Rounders Field: wherever it is, the vehicle never needs to shift at all for us. Our engineers drain it where it is. Guessing won't help near Anti-Slavery Memorial Arch, on a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
Your situation, in one line
If it hasn't run, phone then keep it off. Run already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever case, across Highfield and Gloucestershire, on 0333 366 0103.