Don't Start It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Liney
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then keep your engine off — and the ignition as well. Urea mixed in water is what AdBlue is. The harm begins once it is sucked through the pump — it will not ignite, and it won't combine with diesel. Caught before your motor has run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Liney. Call 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in your diesel tank in Liney
To do:
- Pocket your keys, and that prevents someone turning the power on.
- If you are at all near moving traffic, put your hazards on.
- Keep your receipt or the empty bottle, and so you can tell us what got in and about how much.
- Our van finds you quickest with a postcode starting TA7 0, or simply the name of a street nearby, so call from the spot.
Not to do:
- Not even for a second, and not to shift the vehicle: the motor stays off.
- Turning the key to ignition alone sets your pump running on many diesels. Skip it.
- Don't top up with diesel to thin it. AdBlue does not mix in diesel; it separates out.
- Leave the car where it is rather than driving it anywhere, even a short distance up Vulcan Drive.
- By the road, don't attempt draining it yourself.
At a forecourt around Liney, whether it is the Murco or another one, ask the staff to help you push your car away from the pump. At your own drive, do not touch it at all.
AdBlue in a diesel tank, and what it does there
Meant for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in your motor. Kept in a dedicated tank, it is injected into the exhaust stream to clean the fumes. No part inside a fuel pump is made for this liquid — and none of that was meant to travel through one.
Inside a diesel tank it behaves very differently from fuel. It doesn't mix in. It's heavier than diesel, and so it sinks and gathers at the bottom of the tank, which is where the pickup draws fuel from. Easiest of all: one that had AdBlue in Fowlers Plot overnight and hasn't turned since. The liquid sits at the base of that tank, untouched — but it will be first through once your engine starts, before any diesel at all.
Two kinds of damage come from there. It eats at certain metals used in fuel components, attacking whatever it reaches until it is cleared completely. And when the water evaporates, the urea forms crystals that block filters and lodge in tiny channels. A vehicle left sitting in Liney with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue just in its tank is not. The water in it does damage of its own: your high-pressure pump and your injectors depend on diesel to lubricate them, and water gives them nothing.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is regularly worse
Fill a diesel with petrol in error over at the Shell, and the problem is thinned fuel. It mixes with your diesel, and while it is in the tank it causes no harm; the damage comes from running the engine on it.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the fluid itself is plainly the wrong one. Not burning, it cannot just be run through. Nor can it be watered down, because it splits again — and the next fill won't clear away crystals or corrosion. So the flush matters for more with AdBlue, and trying the engine "to see", in the centre of Liney or out in Parchey, costs more than nearly any other mistake.
As with petrol, there is good news. Anywhere in Somerset the car has come to rest, an unrun engine leaves the AdBlue yet in the reservoir: the easiest part of a fuel system to clear.
How AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank around Liney
In dim light, two caps side by side — the AdBlue one and the diesel one, occasionally behind a single flap — can appear the same. Nobody means it; many designs invite it. Mostly it occurs with a bottle bought on the way home and poured in on the driveway, not at the forecourt.
It tends to happen in a few familiar ways. Midway through the drop-off, the dashboard flags it up, and outside Westonzoyland Community Primary School the top-up is hurried. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off Cheer Lane. One more version: dim light, a pub car park by Sedgemoor Inn, and someone using that flap for the first time.
Hired vehicles, new cars, company vehicles, or the second car in a home with both fuels: the least known cars get it most. An identical slip, an identical first step — keep it off — wherever you happen to be around Liney or the rest of Somerset.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Liney, and the engine started?
Then that tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. With any running, it goes on to the injection pump and every injector, after passing via the filter and pipework.
Maybe coming back from Greylake Nature Reserve, or part way across Liney, the engine may go lumpy, smoke, drop pace, light up your dash or cut out. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and do not restart it to check. Every start pulls more of that through.
Leave the M5, under 3 miles from Liney, by the first junction and stop somewhere safe, rather than driving on.
Every mile carries the AdBlue deeper in. That's why a hop across Liney to park beside Church of St Mary the Virgin and a drive of under 15 miles for Wells are such separate jobs. Tell us about how far it had come.
Wherever your car came to a halt is where all of it gets done, even with more to clean out once the engine has been running. When it is noticed early, long-term damage is very rare.
Liney: how AdBlue is cleared from a diesel
A road by Battle of Sedgemoor, a drive, a layby or a filling station: wherever your vehicle has come to rest in Liney, we travel to it. Before anything else our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and if your motor has run, since those replies decide the work.
Next, emptying your tank right there takes out the contaminated diesel along with the AdBlue together. Residue from AdBlue won't flush away by itself, so the fuel system gets a careful flush, which counts much more with urea than for petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Not run? Then expect about half an hour on site for most jobs. The pumps are explosion-proof, safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
The final step is to prime the fuel system on fresh diesel. Firing it up comes next, and then you drive off from where your car is parked, outside Bridgwater or on a driveway in Liney. We confirm it runs properly on new diesel before we go. The entire job is done where the car is, so it never has to be taken to a garage. The insurer will want an engineer's report and your VAT invoice — both yours afterwards.
About Liney
Liney is a small suburban area in Somerset, situated inland at a low elevation of around 7 metres. Liney lies near the villages of Bussex, Westonzoyland, and Sutton Mallet, and is approximately 13.6 miles from the city of Wells. Liney is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its residential nature. Liney is also relatively distant from London, at around 123.7 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Liney and Somerset
Over the TA postcode area, the vans answering AdBlue call-outs around Liney reach much of Somerset as well, Bussex, Westonzoyland and Sutton Mallet included. Assuming won't help close to a border or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
Anywhere your car sits — your driveway at home, a residential street, a car park, a forecourt — our engineers drain it there, with no need to take it to us; that suits Liney, a residential suburb, well.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right in Liney
There's no fair single quote, since the jobs are not the same. The cost changes first with how long, if at all, your engine has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that went in. After that it depends on where the car is and whether a technician can reach it safely, which is simpler on an open driveway than in a tight space behind Church of the Holy Cross.
Which fluid was put in, how much, and whether the engine ran: every Liney enquiry opens by asking precisely that, before any quote, never after. Given those replies, the range shrinks to one fixed figure.
You hear that price by phone, before anyone sets off, and you pay on the day, by card or over the phone, with nothing upfront. While our engineer is travelling, check your policy: plenty cover misfuelling.
Still alongside the vehicle in Liney?
In that case, touch nothing — that is the best move available. Keys out, engine off, ignition off. Call 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, roughly how much, plus if the engine ran are everything we ask. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder throughout Somerset, Liney too.