Lockleaze: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue was put in? This single point settles nearly everything else from here. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Lockleaze itself or out in Northville. Usually this means emptying and thoroughly purging it right there around Lockleaze — so leave the key and motor off then phone 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, then, yet the same first move.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Bristol it happened.
At the petrol pump in Lockleaze: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it while you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. It could be the Shell, or the Texaco, or a different station in Lockleaze.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Still in that tank, with nothing drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: avoid the urge to start it just to move away from the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle into a parking bay, keep your receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
At home around Lockleaze with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle from the garage, tipped in at the drive — and it was just by the recycling that the cap caught a second look. Homes just off Blake Road get caught out as often as everywhere else.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing alters nothing.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Horfield or Lockleaze: whichever your drive sits, that's where it is drained. Late-night drains beside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
Lockleaze: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe it was on Rowlandson Gardens, possibly on the way out towards Bristol, under 3 miles away.
The point: the system has pulled AdBlue through already. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. It goes deeper with each mile driven and each restart.
Pull in safely — that is the next job — then switch it off. Exit at the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M32, under a mile from Lockleaze. No test starts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue does. Roughly how far did it gone? Tell us when you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have just driven the car a week. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is just next to the diesel cap — news to you. Anywhere you happen to be around Bristol, any motorist can be caught.
In short: an extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it's run. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under many rental and company agreements.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it beforehand saves time. Stranded by Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint Francis Lockleaze or at Ashley Down until someone replies, the vehicle remains turned off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Lockleaze
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; no clear memory of which cap. Sound familiar? Maybe at a friend's drive in Eastville, or in a rush by Stoke Park Primary School on the school run.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no damage to the engine. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up your car would draw it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: behave as if it did, and don't start the motor. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clear tank looked at is a happier result than an already-run one emptied.
The common ground in each Lockleaze AdBlue drain
Every case gets the same opening to the work. Forecourt, drive, Crafty Cow's car park or a street beside The Langley Centre — our van reaches your vehicle, and three questions follow: which fluid, which amount, and if it ran. On the phone, before dispatch, you hear the price, and those answers shape the job too.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't wash out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Next is your filter — cleaned, or replaced where needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. Never started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Last, we fire it up. Before our technicians head off, it is tested to confirm it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. Permanent damage is very unusual if it's caught early, and the whole job is done where the car is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Lockleaze itself
Lockleaze is a suburban area located in the north of Bristol, situated approximately 2.8 miles from the city centre. Lockleaze sits at an elevation of around 63 metres, in a gently sloping area of the city. Lockleaze is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, with nearby areas including Horfield, Ashley Down, and Stapleton. Lockleaze is home to a population of around 6671 residents.
Lockleaze and Bristol: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a residential suburb, Lockleaze shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Stapleton, Ashley Down — right through BS postcodes. Telling us your BS7 9 postcode finds you fastest of all.
No moving is needed, be it parked in the centre of Lockleaze or on a lay-by en route to Gainsborough Square, and so keep it put. Our engineers drain it where it sits. Awkward to pin down? By The Hub or a border? Checking beats guessing, so phone.
The one-line version
Where it has not started, phone then keep it off. Already run: stop, switch off then ring. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Lockleaze and anywhere in Bristol on 0333 366 0103.