What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ilfracombe
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue got in? This one question decides almost everything else from here. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Higher Slade, Ilfracombe — never run a motor that has not been started yet. Usually that means draining and properly purging it on the spot in Ilfracombe — so leave the ignition and motor off and ring 0333 366 0103. Pull over the minute you safely can and switch off, if it has been run. A larger job, then, but the identical first step.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Devon it happened.
At the pump around Ilfracombe: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Be it Murco, Total or somewhere else around Ilfracombe, the case is the same.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. Still inside the tank, with no fuel pulled onwards: that is where the AdBlue is.
Next: resist the temptation to start it only to free up the petrol pump. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking spot, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Ilfracombe drive?
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 drives just off Marlborough Road as frequently as anywhere.
The point: no driving since leaves this nearly as good to finding it at the pump. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops low inside that tank and stays. One night parked alters none of that.
Put your keys in the house overnight — or a person might drive it away at breakfast — and call us. Out in Langleigh or here in Ilfracombe, the draining is done at your driveway. Late-night empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
Ilfracombe: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or lighting up your dash. Church Street, say, or the route to Swansea — a run of under 50 miles.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It's been through the fuel filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. More miles, more starts: further it travels.
Do this: stop somewhere sensible, then turn the motor off. Ilfracombe lies under 50 miles from the M4; there, come off at the next junction instead of pushing on to the services. It won't have cleared, and so there's no sense starting it again to find out. Phone, and say what distance the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
It's a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Throughout Devon, nobody is immune.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies too — run or not — plus one extra stage. Any work on your car often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians get there than after. Stranded by Encounter Church or outside Barnstaple until the firm replies, the car remains turned off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Ilfracombe
Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think it did. 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. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Hele, or rushing outside Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never touch your engine at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the vehicle would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not start it. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean beats emptying one once it's been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
Each AdBlue drain around Ilfracombe shares these stages
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Three things come when our engineers reach the car — at a forecourt, a driveway, a street beside Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses or the car park outside The Wellington: the fluid, the quantity, and if the motor has been started. The price comes on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the work.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it is essential, because deposits form and certain metals corrode, and none of it washes away unaided. Last are the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the vehicle. Never started? In that case roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
The last step is firing it up. Before our engineers head off, it is tested to confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel. If it is caught quickly, the vehicle very seldom has long-term damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. 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, and so a check of your policy as you wait is worthwhile.
About Ilfracombe, briefly
Ilfracombe is a coastal town in Devon, situated on the northwest coast of England, with a population of around 10163 people. Ilfracombe sits at an elevation of 29 metres, overlooking the Bristol Channel, and is characterised by its predominance of terraced housing. Ilfracombe is close to nearby places such as Langleigh, Chambercombe, and Lower Slade, and is approximately 173.7 miles from London. Ilfracombe is also near the city of Swansea, which is 29.7 miles away, although it is more commonly associated with the nearby city of Exeter or Barnstaple.
Ilfracombe and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area
Chambercombe and Lower Slade have the identical teams as Ilfracombe, a coastal town, plus other places over EX postcodes. Telling us your EX34 9 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Central Ilfracombe or a lay-by towards Oxford Park play area: wherever it is, your vehicle never needs to move an inch for us. We drain the car where it stands. Assuming won't help beside War Memorial, on a border or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
Engine not started: ring, and leave it alone. Run by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Ilfracombe and Devon, on 0333 366 0103.