AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Lower Stratton: What Now?
Has your motor run since the AdBlue got in? This single point settles almost everything about what comes next. Not run yet? Then leave the vehicle like that, whether the vehicle is — Lower Stratton or Upper Stratton. Ring 0333 366 0103 with your key and motor still off. In Lower Stratton, that is generally drained and flushed on the spot. When the motor has run, stop safely straight away, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Wherever around Wiltshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Lower Stratton forecourt
Just at this point, bottle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It might be the the nearest petrol station, or the Sainsbury's, or another station around Lower Stratton.
In short: there is no better place to be to spot it. Still in that tank, and nothing drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue sits.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt once your vehicle is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — and keep the receipt. Draining it right at the petrol pump is possible if it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Lower Stratton
On the dash, a warning had shown 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. It occurs on driveways just off Ermin Street as commonly as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. At the floor of that tank is exactly where AdBlue waits, because it won't mix with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
Keep the keys in the house tonight — or a person may drive it away first thing — then call us. Stratton St Margaret or Lower Stratton: wherever your driveway sits, that's where it gets cleared. Late-night empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Lower Stratton?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two after the fill. Possibly it was on Bridgeman Close, maybe on the way out towards Oxford, under 25 miles away.
What it means: the system has pulled the AdBlue in. It's been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Exit at the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M4, under 5 miles from Lower Stratton. It will not have cleared, and so there is no sense starting it again to check. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
A week back, it was new to you. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue cap was just beside your diesel. Anywhere you are across Wiltshire, any driver could be caught.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under plenty of hire and company agreements.
Sorting it before we turn up is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Stranded by St Margaret's Community Centre or outside Swindon till someone answers, your car remains turned off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Lower Stratton
At times, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. What cap came off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Grange Junior School, or on a friend's drive in Walcot East.
In short: a spill round the filler leaves the engine unharmed. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Starting your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would draw it in.
Take it that it was put in, and never start your key. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
Every AdBlue drain around Lower Stratton shares these steps
The job begins identically, whatever your case. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Wheatsheaf or a side street near Grange Leisure Centre, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if the motor has been run. Your price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why the flush, after this drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in after your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is then checked. Not started? Then about half an hour on site is most jobs.
Finally, we start the car. Before our technicians go, it's tested to make sure it runs properly on fresh diesel. We do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very rare if it has been noticed early. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Lower Stratton and where it is
Lower Stratton is a suburban area in Wiltshire, situated inland at an elevation of 104 metres, and forms part of the larger Swindon urban area. Lower Stratton lies near the villages of Stratton St Margaret and South Marston, and is close to the settlement of Nythe. Lower Stratton has a population of approximately 5476 residents, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type in the area. Lower Stratton is located 24 miles from Oxford and 69.6 miles from London.
Lower Stratton and Wiltshire: AdBlue drains across the area
As a residential suburb, Lower Stratton has the same vans as the nearby towns — Nythe, South Marston — all the way across SN postcodes. Giving us a SN3 4 postcode pins you fastest of all.
No moving is needed, be it stopped centrally in Lower Stratton or in a lay-by heading to Ash Corner, and so keep it where it is. Our van empties it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Saint Margaret's Church or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In one line: your scenario
Where it has not started, ring then leave it that way. Run by now: pull over, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Lower Stratton or anywhere across Wiltshire.