AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Kentsboro? Keep It Switched Off
With AdBlue in the diesel tank, the ignition remains off and so does the motor. AdBlue is urea mixed in water. The trouble starts once it is sucked through your lines — it will not ignite, and it will not blend with diesel. Caught before the engine has been run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Kentsboro. Before you do anything else, ring 0333 366 0103.
Kentsboro, AdBlue in the diesel tank: what to do right away
Things to do:
- Pocket the keys, which prevents anyone switching the power on.
- If you are anywhere close to moving traffic, put the hazard lights on.
- So you can give us which liquid it was and roughly what quantity, save the till receipt or the empty bottle.
- Call right where you are. Quote a SO20 8 postcode or the closest street sign, and no one has to hunt for you.
Things not to do:
- No starting the motor — not briefly, not to shift your car.
- Turning the key to ignition by itself starts your pump going on many diesels. Avoid it.
- Adding more diesel doesn't work: AdBlue settles out rather than thinning.
- Don't drive the car anywhere, not even a short stretch down The Green.
- No emptying it yourself, either, on the roadside.
The staff working at any Kentsboro filling station — the White Horse Service Station among them — will normally lend a hand rolling it aside if you ask. If you are on your own drive, leave it precisely where it stands.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
Meant for the exhaust, AdBlue has no business in the motor. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into the exhaust gas to fresh it. Nothing in it is supposed to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is made to handle it.
Fuel blends; AdBlue, after poured in, won't. Its behaviour is not at all like fuel's. The pickup sucks fuel from the lowest part of your tank, and that's just where AdBlue settles: being heavier than diesel, it sinks. A vehicle filled on a drive in Danebury overnight and not started since counts as the simple one. No pump has pulled the AdBlue up so far — but once your engine runs, that is what is pulled first, straight from the bottom of that tank.
It causes two kinds of harm from there. What remains once the water evaporates is urea, which turns into crystals: they lodge in narrow passages and block filters. On top of that, it eats at some metals in the fuel system, and keeps going until it is flushed out. If the AdBlue is in the pipework, leaving it overnight in Kentsboro leaves things worse. In your tank only, time costs nothing. Then there is the water: it offers no protection to the parts that rely on it most — the high-pressure pump and every injector.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is frequently worse
Put petrol in a diesel at the another forecourt nearby and you have a fault of thin fuel. It mixes with the diesel, and whilst it's inside the tank it causes no damage; the damage comes from running the motor on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is a problem of the wrong substance altogether. It cannot simply be run through, since it does not burn. Whether your car is in Nether Wallop or the centre of Kentsboro, firing it up "to see" costs more in this case than nearly any other error, and the flush matters for more. The reasons: it will not stay blended, and so diluting it is impossible; and deposits and corrosion survive the following fill.
The same good news holds as with petrol. If your motor hasn't run, the AdBlue is still inside that tank, and the tank is the easiest part of a fuel system to clear, wherever around Hampshire the car is sitting.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Kentsboro?
Plenty of vehicles place the AdBlue cap beside the diesel cap, occasionally behind one flap, and in dim light the two may look identical. No one intends it. A bottle bought when driving home and tipped in outside the house, rather than at the forecourt, is the typical story.
A few familiar ways cover most cases. Midway through the drop-off, the dashboard warns, and outside Wallop Primary School the top-up is hurried. Someone tips the container in at home, just off Cossaton Rise, as the day ends. Or someone unfamiliar with that flap refills your vehicle after dark, parked in the car park outside the pub in the village.
It happens most in the motors people know least: a hire car, a new car, a company car, or the second car of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Wherever you're in Kentsboro or the rest of Hampshire, it's the same mistake and the same first answer: leave the car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Kentsboro, and your engine started?
Then your tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. The filter and lines have had it sucked through, and some running time carries it on to the injection pump and every injector.
Rough running, smoke from the exhaust, lost power, dashboard warnings or cutting out: any might appear, maybe midway across Kentsboro or coming back from Upper Oakcuts Copse. No restarting to check: stop once safe, then switch everything off. Each start pulls more of it through.
Exit the M3, under 15 miles from Kentsboro, at the next junction and park safely, rather than carrying on.
How far it went counts. A few hundred yards across Kentsboro to the car park by Westland Lynx AH9A is a very different job from a run towards Salisbury, under 15 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into the fuel system with each mile. Roughly how far it had come is worth telling us.
There is more to rinse out once the engine has been run, and we do all of it where the vehicle has stopped. Caught quickly, it very seldom leaves permanent damage.
Kentsboro: how AdBlue is drained from a diesel
Anywhere it has come to rest in Kentsboro — a filling station, a layby, a drive, a road by Army Air Corps Memorial — the van travels to the car. Before anything else we ask what went in, about how much, and whether the engine has run, because those answers settle this work.
Next, emptying that tank on the spot removes the contaminated diesel along with the AdBlue in one go. The system is flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol, because what it leaves behind 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 vehicle is tested. About half an hour once we arrive is typical for most jobs where the motor has not run. The equipment is explosion-proof, and so a live filling station is no issue, and it's quiet enough for a residential street late at night.
Bleeding the system with new diesel comes at the end. Starting it comes next, and then you set off from where the vehicle is parked, at Grateley or on a drive around Kentsboro. The check before our engineers go is that it runs smoothly on clean diesel. We do it all wherever the vehicle has stopped, and it never needs to be taken to a workshop. At the end, there is paperwork for your insurer: a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer.
About Kentsboro, briefly
Kentsboro is a small village in Hampshire, situated inland at an elevation of 98 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type. Kentsboro lies near the villages of Middle Wallop and Over Wallop, and is approximately 11.8 miles from Salisbury. Kentsboro is also within commuting distance of London, being around 66.5 miles away. Kentsboro has a population of around 933 residents.
AdBlue drains in Kentsboro and across Hampshire
Our teams that answer AdBlue jobs around Kentsboro also cover the places about it, Middle Wallop, Clatford Oakcuts and Over Wallop among them, and most of Hampshire beyond, across the SO postcode area. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Anywhere your vehicle sits — a driveway at home, a side street, a parking area, a filling station — we empty it there, with no need to bring it to us; which suits Kentsboro, a rural village, well.
What does AdBlue in a diesel tank cost to sort out in Kentsboro?
Since the jobs vary, a single price would not be honest. The cost shifts first with how long, if at all, the motor has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that got in. After that it rests on where the car is and whether a van can reach it safely, which is easier on an open drive than in a tight space behind Army Aviation Memorial.
For that reason, each call from Kentsboro opens with the same trio — which fluid got in, how much, whether it ran — ahead of any quote. When they are known, a range becomes one fixed number.
Before a van heads out, you hear our quote on the phone. Then you pay on the day, by card or over the phone, with nothing in advance. Look at your insurance while we are on the way: many carry misfuelling cover.
Still next to the car around Kentsboro?
In that case, do nothing — that's the most helpful step available. Keys out; engine and ignition off. Phone 0333 366 0103 then tell us it is AdBlue, about how much, and if it's run. Petrol in Diesel takes it from there, around Kentsboro or anywhere around Hampshire.