AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Meyrick Park: What Now?
Everything hinges on one detail: if your motor has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Wherever the car stands — Bournemouth, Meyrick Park — never run an engine that hasn't run yet. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor still off. In Meyrick Park, such a case is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. When the motor has been run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Compare what happened to a situation from the ones below, anywhere in Dorset you happen to be.
Meyrick Park forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the nozzle, you spot the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. Possibly you are at the Esso, maybe at the Asda, maybe somewhere else around Meyrick Park.
In short: no better place to be to spot it. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Next: avoid the urge to fire it up only to free up the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you push the vehicle into a parking space, 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.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Meyrick Park drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Bought a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and at that point looked at the cap again, too late. Houses just off Dunbar Road get hit as often as anywhere else.
The point: zero driving since makes it nearly as good to spotting it at the petrol pump. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles to the base in that tank and stays. A night parked changes none of that.
Put the keys in the house overnight — or someone might drive it away at breakfast — and phone us. Dean Park or Meyrick Park: wherever your driveway is, that is where it is cleared. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Meyrick Park: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a short way beyond the top-up. Maybe driving to Salisbury, under 25 miles away, or just down St Augustin's Road.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. It travels further with every mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. On the M27, under 25 miles from Meyrick Park, that means the next exit, not the services further on. No test starts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Roughly how far had it go? Tell us as you call.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've just had this vehicle for days. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, anywhere across Dorset, could do the same.
The point: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, but with one added stage. Any work on the car often needs the owner's approval under hire or fleet agreements.
Settling it before we turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. Keep the vehicle off while the answer arrives, whether you are parked outside Bournemouth or close to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Meyrick Park: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Malmesbury Park Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Talbot Heath.
Put simply: a spill round the filler leaves your engine no harm. Once it's inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Take it that it went in, and never start the key. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats emptying one once it's been run — so ring then tell us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain around Meyrick Park has in common
No matter the case, a single opening is used. Three questions come when our engineers arrive — at a filling station, a driveway, a street beside St Augustin's Church or the car park outside Tipsy Cow: the liquid, the amount, and if it has been started. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told our quote, and those replies shape the job too.
Then that tank is emptied and your system flushed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next comes the filter — cleaned, or replaced when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
The last step is starting it. Our check that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before our technicians go. Our engineers do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been noticed early. Paying comes that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance before we arrive: cover for misfuelling is built into many policies.
About Meyrick Park itself
Meyrick Park is a coastal locality in Dorset, situated near the cities of Bournemouth and Poole, and approximately 23 miles from Salisbury. Meyrick Park sits at an elevation of 39 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly flat housing stock. Meyrick Park is close to other nearby places such as Dean Park, Talbot Woods, and Winton, and is home to a population of around 1676 residents.
AdBlue drains around Meyrick Park, and across Dorset too
Meyrick Park is a coastal area, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Talbot Woods and Winton among them, across the BH postcode area. The location comes quickest from a postcode that starts BH3 7.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to the green space at the edge of the village or in a car park in the middle of Meyrick Park, it doesn't need to shift. Where it stands, that is where it is emptied. Phone and check instead of guessing when you are close to Cemetery Chapel, on a boundary, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Your scenario, in one line
Still unrun? Leave it that way and ring. Run already: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Meyrick Park or wherever across Dorset.