Lower Feltham: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the motor has run afterwards. Not run yet? Then leave it like that, wherever the car is — Lower Feltham or Chattern Hill. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out just where the car stands around Lower Feltham. Already started? Stop once safe, then turn it off. Stage one stays unchanged, even if the job is bigger.
Further down: the situations our engineers meet, wherever across Greater London. Choose the one that fits.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Lower Feltham forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only spot it while you're standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Whether Tesco, Gulf or anywhere else around Lower Feltham, the situation is identical.
The upshot: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. Only that tank holds AdBlue; no part beyond it has taken it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to start it just to free up the pump. A few jobs: a push into a space with the attendants assisting, the receipt saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, so a car that cannot be pushed clear is drained right at the pump.
Lower Feltham, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Houses just off Larkham Close are caught out as often as everywhere else.
In short: if the vehicle has not moved since, it is almost equal to spotting it at the forecourt. On the floor of your tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by putting the keys indoors, then phone us. Felthamhill or Lower Feltham: whichever your drive sits, that's where it gets emptied. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway.
On the road around Lower Feltham with AdBlue in a diesel
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your motor was running roughly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Ashford Road, say, or the way towards Westminster — a trip of under 15 miles.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. The injection pump and each injector see it as well on a bigger run, after the filter and pipework have had it. Every restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Do this: pull up anywhere safe, then switch the engine off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M3, under 3 miles from Lower Feltham. It won't have cleared, so there is no sense restarting to check. Let us hear the mileage driven when you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
A week ago, it was new to you. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever in Greater London, might make it.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by whether it ran, only with an added step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, since sorting it beforehand cuts time. If you are stranded in the car park outside Feltham, or by Saint Dunstan's Church, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Lower Feltham: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". A slight ammonia whiff hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is a blur. The gates of Oak Hill Academy West London in a hurry, say, or someone's drive over in Feltham.
The upshot: your engine is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed around the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Firing up your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would pull it in.
Next: act as though it went in, then keep your engine off. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Lower Feltham: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Every situation gets the same opening to the work. Anywhere your car stands — Three Horseshoes's car park, a road by Oasis Church, a drive, a filling station — our van gets there and asks for the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has been run. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and the answers set the job.
Then that tank is emptied and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next comes your filter — flushed, or replaced where necessary — followed by fresh diesel, and a test of the car. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers arrive.
Starting the engine comes at the end. Our test that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before we leave. Long-term damage is very rare when it is caught soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Lower Feltham and where it is
Lower Feltham is a suburban area in west London, situated approximately 13.8 miles from central London. Lower Feltham has a relatively low elevation of around 13 metres, and is characterised by its semi-detached housing stock. Lower Feltham is located near several other suburban areas, including Felthamhill, Ashford Common, and East Bedfont.
AdBlue drains around Lower Feltham, and across Greater London too
Throughout TW postcodes, the vans covering Lower Feltham — a residential suburb — reach surrounding towns as well, Ashford Common and East Bedfont among them. Giving us your TW13 4 postcode pins you quickest of all.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Raleigh Park or in a car park in the middle of Lower Feltham, it does not need to shift. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets drained. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near 2nd Sunbury Guides or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your situation, summed up
If it has not run, ring then leave it off. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Lower Feltham or wherever across Greater London.