AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lower Broadheath, and What to Do Next
All of that hinges on a single fact: if your motor has started after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Over in Crown East or right in Lower Broadheath, an unstarted engine should stay that way. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out just where the car stands around Lower Broadheath. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Step one stays unchanged, even though the work is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Worcestershire it happened.
On a Lower Broadheath forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Anywhere in Lower Broadheath, then — Texaco, Esso, or somewhere else close by.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. Nothing has pulled it through, so the AdBlue sits only in the tank.
Next: resist the temptation to fire it up only to free up the petrol pump. Get the attendants to help rolling it to a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Emptying it there at the pump is possible when it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Lower Broadheath, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in on the drive — and it's just by the recycling that the cap got your eye. Homes just off Bell Lane get hit as often as everywhere else.
Put simply: if the vehicle hasn't moved since, it is almost as good as finding out at the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Next: stop an early move by keeping your keys indoors, then ring us. Our engineers drain it on your drive, whether that's around Lower Broadheath or out in Broadheath Common. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Lower Broadheath?
A short way after topping up, your motor started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Somewhere on Green Lane or heading towards Worcester — under 3 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger run, once your filter and pipework have it. It goes further with each extra mile covered and each restart.
Your move: pull up anywhere safe, then switch the motor off. On the M5, under 5 miles from Lower Broadheath, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Let us know the mileage driven when you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
Seven days back, the car was new to you. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is absent or somewhere else. On this one, the cap is right by the diesel inlet — news to you. Anywhere you are around Worcestershire, every driver could slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Many rental and company contracts require the owner's sign-off for repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our technicians get there than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Worcester Foregate Street, or by Christ Church, Lower Broadheath, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Lower Broadheath
Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think so. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Sound familiar? Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Broadheath CofE Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Hallow.
Meaning? Spills around the inlet never reach the motor at all. If it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be pulled in by firing up the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Do this: act as if it did, and don't start your motor. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it's been run — so ring then tell us what you noticed.
Every AdBlue drain around Lower Broadheath shares these steps
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Anywhere your car is — The Bell Inn's car park, a road beside Lower Broadheath Village Hall, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and asks about the fluid, the quantity, plus if your engine has turned over. On the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told the quote, and those replies decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out on its own; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Last come the filter, flushed or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of the car. Not started? In that case about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Finally, our engineers start it. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running properly, and then we go. Our engineers do the entire job where the car is, and permanent damage is very uncommon when it has been spotted early. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing upfront. It is worth knowing: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents as we travel pays.
About Lower Broadheath, for a moment
Lower Broadheath is a small village in Worcestershire, situated near the River Teme and close to the city of Worcester. Lower Broadheath has a mix of housing types, with semi-detached homes being predominant, and is surrounded by open countryside and nearby places like Broadheath Common. Lower Broadheath sits at an elevation of 62 metres, making it a relatively low-lying area compared to the surrounding hills.
Lower Broadheath and Worcestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Lower Broadheath is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Little Eastbury and Shoulton among them, across the WR postcode area. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts WR2 6.
Central Lower Broadheath or a lay-by towards Birchen Grove: wherever it sits, your car never needs to move at all for the drain. Wherever it stands, that's where it is emptied. Guessing doesn't help near Elgar's Birthplace Museum, on a border or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
Your situation, summed up
Where it has not run, ring and leave it that way. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Lower Broadheath and anywhere around Worcestershire on 0333 366 0103.