Littlemoor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue went in? This single question settles almost everything else from here. Wherever your vehicle stands — Nottington, Littlemoor — don't start an engine that has not run yet. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out just where the vehicle sits around Littlemoor. Stop the minute you safely can and switch off, if it has already run. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Match what happened to a situation from the ones below, anywhere in Dorset you happen to be.
Littlemoor forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just now, bottle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It could be the Sainsbury's, or perhaps the BP, or another station in Littlemoor.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. Still inside the tank, and no fuel pulled through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Freeing the pump is no reason to run it — so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle is in a space — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then save the bottle. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible if it can't be shifted, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Littlemoor drive?
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 a second time at the cap. Homes just off Littlemoor Road are caught out as much as anywhere else.
Meaning? Provided the car has not moved since, it's close to the pump case. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Your driveway is where it is emptied, whether around Littlemoor or Broadwey. Our pumping kit runs quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Littlemoor: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and soon your motor was turning roughly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Hussar Road, say, or the way to Wells — a trip of under 50 miles.
The point: the system has pulled AdBlue through by now. Mileage decides how deep it gets: filter and pipework first, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: deeper it travels.
Your move: pull up somewhere sensible, then switch your engine off. On the M5, under 50 miles from Littlemoor, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had this vehicle barely a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is right next to your diesel cap — news to you. Anywhere you happen to be around Dorset, every driver can slip up.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle frequently requires the owner's approval under hire or fleet terms.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before we turn up than after. If you're stranded in the car park outside Upwey, or by Littlemoor Library, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Littlemoor: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Bincombe Valley Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Upwey.
In short: spillage round the filler leaves your motor unharmed. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would suck in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't fire it up. Describe what you saw on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a better result than a run one drained.
The common ground in each Littlemoor AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Anywhere your car stands — the pub in the village's car park, a street beside St Francis of Assisi, a drive, a forecourt — the van arrives and we ask for the liquid, the amount, plus if the motor has been run. The price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the answers shape the work.
Then the tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Finally are your filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of the car. Where the engine hasn't run, allow about half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Finally, our technicians fire it up. Before our technicians go, it's checked to be sure it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. If it's caught soon, the vehicle very rarely has permanent 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. Worth knowing: lots of insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy as we travel pays.
About Littlemoor and where it is
Littlemoor is a coastal suburban area in Dorset, situated near the towns of Weymouth and Portland, and close to the nearby places of Broadwey, Bincombe, and Redlands. Littlemoor sits at a relatively low elevation of 28 metres, and its population of around 2782 people live in predominantly terraced housing. Littlemoor is located near the South West Coast Path, and its residents are around 117 miles from London. Littlemoor's proximity to the coast and surrounding countryside makes it a popular residential area.
AdBlue drains across Dorset, Littlemoor included
Littlemoor is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Bincombe and Redlands among them, across the DT postcode area. Fastest of all: a DT3 6 postcode to show where you stand.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Coffin Plantation or in a car park in the middle of Littlemoor, it doesn't need to move. Where it sits, that's where it gets emptied. Assuming won't help near Jurassic Stones, close to a county line or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and check.
Your situation, summed up
Unstarted? Leave the car off then ring. Whichever line fits, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Dorset and within Littlemoor — once you pull over, turn off and phone, if it has run.