AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lower Stone, and What to Do Next
One thing counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your motor has been started since. Not started yet? Then leave it like that, wherever the car is — Lower Stone or Hystfield. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. Across Lower Stone, that is typically drained and cleaned on the spot. Stop the moment you safely can and switch off, if it has already run. Stage one stays the same, even though the work grows.
Anywhere across Gloucestershire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Lower Stone forecourt
Picture it: standing by the pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. It might be the Stone Garage, or the another forecourt nearby, or another station around Lower Stone.
The upshot: of all places to find out, this is the best. Just your tank holds AdBlue; no component beyond it has taken any in.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up just to move away from the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that cannot be pushed clear gets cleared right at the pump.
At home in Lower Stone with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Homes just off Moorslade Lane get caught out as much as anywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes this almost as good to spotting it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Your move: keys indoors, so no one drives your car off first thing. Then, phone. Our engineers drain the vehicle on your drive, whether that's around Lower Stone or out in Moorslade. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Lower Stone?
A short way beyond topping up, your motor began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Sundayshill Lane, say, or the way towards Bristol — a run of under 15 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked through the fuel system. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. More driving, more restarts: further it travels.
Pull in safely — that is the next job — then turn everything off. Exit at the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the M5, under 3 miles from Lower Stone. It will not have cleared, so there is no sense restarting to find out. Phone us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a car you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Across Gloucestershire, nobody is safe from it.
The point: just as above, divided by if it ran, but with an added stage. The owner often needs to sign off the work, under plenty of hire and fleet contracts.
Do this: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since settling it early cuts time. Hanging on for a reply at the car park outside Lydney, or near Stone Village Hall? Keep your engine off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Lower Stone?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think it did. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe at a friend's drive in Falfield, or in a rush outside Stone with Woodford Church of England Primary School at the school run.
The point: your motor isn't harmed by a little AdBlue spilled on the filler. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
Your move: act as if it got in, and don't start the engine. Ring with what you saw: we'd rather find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one after the engine has been run.
What each AdBlue drain around Lower Stone has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Anywhere your vehicle stands — the pub in the village's car park, a road beside All Saints, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and we ask about the fluid, the quantity, plus if the motor has been run. Replies shape the job; the quote follows on the call while nobody has left yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not wash out on its own; that is why a full flush, after this drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Not started? Then about half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
Our engineers start the engine last. With new diesel in, it runs while we confirm it is running properly, and then we go. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it's caught quickly, lasting damage is very uncommon. Paying is on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we arrive: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Lower Stone
Lower Stone is a small coastal hamlet in Gloucestershire, situated near the Severn Estuary at an elevation of around 20 metres. Lower Stone lies within a short distance of several nearby settlements, including Moorslade, Stone, and Sundayshill. Lower Stone is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its relatively rural and dispersed nature.
AdBlue drains round Lower Stone and across Gloucestershire
Being a rural hamlet, Lower Stone has the same vans as the nearby places — Sundayshill, Stone — right across GL postcodes. Fastest of all: a GL13 9 postcode for where you stand.
Stopped en route to Boundary Field, or right in the centre of Lower Stone, your vehicle remains where it is — there's no need to move it anywhere. The drain happens right there. If you are somewhere hard to describe, close to Falfield Village Hall or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, in one line
Unstarted? Leave it off and phone. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Lower Stone and anywhere around Gloucestershire on 0333 366 0103.