AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Hillyfields, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether your engine has been run since it went in. Not started yet? Then leave the car that way, wherever the vehicle sits — Hillyfields or Lords Hill. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine both off. In Hillyfields, such a case is generally drained and flushed where it stands. Already run? Pull over once safe, then turn everything off. A larger job, yes, but the identical first step.
Anywhere across Hampshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Hillyfields forecourt
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you spot the cap you took off was not the right one. Be it Sainsbury's, Shell or anywhere else around Hillyfields, the situation is the same.
In short: no better place to be to discover it. Just the tank holds AdBlue; not one part past it has taken it in.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so don't get back in. Ask the attendants to help you push the car into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
At home around Hillyfields with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning 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 Yewtree Lane as regularly as anywhere.
Put simply: if your vehicle has not been driven since, it is almost as good as spotting it at the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. We drain it on your driveway, whether that's in Hillyfields or out in Nursling. The pumping kit works quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Hillyfields?
A mile or two after topping up, your motor began playing up: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Possibly it was on Redbridge Lane, maybe on the way out towards Southampton, under 5 miles away.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a safe spot, pull in, then switch your engine off. Services farther on are too far: on the M271, under a mile out of Hillyfields, use the next junction. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About how far had it go? Say so as you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have had the vehicle barely a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Across Hampshire, no one is immune.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on if it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. If you're stranded in the car park outside Redbridge, or by David Lloyd Centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Hillyfields: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Occasionally the fair answer is "I think so". A faint ammonia-like smell hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. The gates of Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive out in Maybush.
Meaning? Drips around the filler don't touch the engine at all. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Starting the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not fire it up. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank checked is a better outcome than an already-run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain in Hillyfields has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Three questions come when our engineers reach the car — at a filling station, a driveway, a street by War Memorial or the car park outside The Saints: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told our price, and those replies shape the work too.
Emptying your tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Fresh diesel is put in after the fuel filter is flushed or replaced, and your car is then checked. Where the engine hasn't run, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most cases.
Firing it up comes last. Our test that it runs properly on clean diesel comes before our technicians leave. When it is noticed quickly, the car very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Payment is that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Hillyfields, briefly
Hillyfields is a suburban area located near the coast in Hampshire, with Hillyfields sitting at an elevation of 11 metres above sea level. Hillyfields is close to the city of Southampton, being only 3.5 miles away, and Hillyfields is also near other places such as Nursling, Wimpson, and Redbridge. Hillyfields has a population of approximately 2997 people and Hillyfields is predominantly composed of terraced housing.
AdBlue drains round Hillyfields and across Hampshire
Wimpson and Redbridge have the same teams as Hillyfields, a residential suburb, along with other places over SO postcodes. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning SO16 0.
No towing is required, whether parked in the centre of Hillyfields or in a lay-by heading to Bushy Coppice, and so leave it where it is. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. Awkward to explain? By Colne Avenue Baptist Church or a county line? Asking beats guessing, and so ring.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, ring then leave it off. Started by now? Stop, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, in Hillyfields and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.