What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Jeffries Hill
All of that hinges on a single detail: whether your engine has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Not started yet? Then leave it that way, whether your car is — Jeffries Hill or Crews Hole. Leave the engine and the ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Jeffries Hill. Stop the minute you safely can and switch off, if it has been run. A larger job, then, but the same first step.
Compare what happened to a situation from the list below, anywhere in Gloucestershire you are.
Jeffries Hill forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
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 Saintsbury's, Texaco or anywhere else around Jeffries Hill, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it can be. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: don't get back in and start the vehicle to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you roll the car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then phone us from the forecourt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away is emptied right at the petrol pump.
Jeffries Hill, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Just off Cherington is not different from any other place.
In short: if your car hasn't been driven since, it is nearly as good as finding out at the pump. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles low in that tank and waits. One night parked changes nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Kingswood or Jeffries Hill: wherever your driveway is, that's where it gets drained. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Jeffries Hill?
A mile or two after topping up, your engine started playing up: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Possibly it was on Church Road, maybe on the way out towards Bristol, under 5 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked into the system. Through the fuel filter, through the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the injection pump and each injector. Every restart, like every mile, pushes it deeper.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then switch your engine off. Exit by the first junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M32, under 3 miles from Jeffries Hill. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Let us hear the distance covered when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own motor either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Gloucestershire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Sorting it before the van arrives is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Waiting for an answer at the car park at Lawrence Hill, or near Christ Church? Leave your engine off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Jeffries Hill?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can honestly say. Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of Samuel White's Infant School in a rush, perhaps, or someone's driveway over in Potterswood.
The upshot: your engine is not harmed by a little AdBlue spilled on the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Take it that it got in, and don't start your engine. Ring and give the details: we'd sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one once the engine has been run.
The common ground in every Jeffries Hill AdBlue drain
The work opens the same way, whichever your case. Forecourt, drive, Swan Inn's car park or a road beside Hanham United Reformed Church — the van reaches your vehicle, and three questions follow: what liquid, which quantity, and if it ran. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear our quote, and those answers decide the work too.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it is crucial, since deposits build up and certain metals corrode, and neither rinses away unaided. Fresh diesel goes in after the fuel filter has been cleaned or changed, and the car is finally checked. Where the motor has not been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, for most jobs.
Finally, our technicians fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running smoothly, and then we leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it's spotted soon, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Jeffries Hill itself
Jeffries Hill is a suburban area in Gloucestershire, situated on the riverside near Bristol. Jeffries Hill sits at an elevation of 62 metres, with the River Avon flowing nearby. Jeffries Hill is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing and is located close to nearby places such as Kingswood, Hanham, and Conham.
AdBlue drains around Jeffries Hill, and across Gloucestershire too
Throughout BS postcodes, the vans serving Jeffries Hill — a residential suburb — work surrounding towns too, Hanham and Conham included. Your location is clearest from a postcode beginning BS15 3.
Central Jeffries Hill or a layby near Hanham FC: wherever it is, your car never needs to shift an inch for us. The drain happens right there. Assuming won't help beside Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, close to a border or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
Your situation, summed up
Unstarted? Keep it off then ring. Whatever line fits, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across Gloucestershire and in Jeffries Hill — once you pull over, switch off then phone, if it has run.