AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Moredon: What Now?
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: if your motor has been run since it got in. Not run so far? Then keep the vehicle like that, whether the car is — Moredon or Ash Brake. Leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Moredon. Already run? Stop when safe, then turn it off. It's a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Wiltshire it happened.
Moredon forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Imagine it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Somewhere in Moredon, then — Asda, Shell, or anywhere else close by.
What it means: this is the ideal spot to find out. Still in the tank, and nothing drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, even if the pump wants freeing. A few things: a push into a bay with the staff assisting, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Draining it there at the pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Moredon
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. A bottle bought at the garage, tipped in on the drive — and it was just by the bin that the cap got a second look. Drives near Shanklin Road get it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not been driven since, it's close to the forecourt case. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue drops low in that tank and stays. One night standing alters none of that.
Put the keys indoors overnight — otherwise a person may drive it off at breakfast — and phone us. Haydon Wick or Moredon: wherever your driveway is, that's where it is emptied. Night-time clears outside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Moredon?
A short way beyond filling up, the motor began playing up: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on your dash. Barton Road, perhaps, or the route towards Oxford — a trip of under 50 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the high-pressure pump and each injector. It goes further with each extra mile driven and every restart.
Next: find a sensible place, stop, and switch the motor off. Service stations farther along are too far: on the M4, under 5 miles out of Moredon, use the next junction. It will not have cleared, so there's no point restarting to check. Roughly what distance had it gone? Tell us when you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've only driven the car for days. Your own car either does without AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so no one told you the AdBlue cap sits just beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Wiltshire.
In short: one extra step on top of the situations above, which turn on if it's run. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car.
Settling it before the van turn up is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stuck in the car park at Swindon, or by Moredon Community Centre, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Moredon?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Look familiar? Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Haydon Wick Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Wild Duck Mead.
The upshot: your motor isn't hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Turning on your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
Next: act as though it went in, and keep your motor off. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Moredon AdBlue drain
Each case gets the same opening to the work. Three questions are asked once our technicians reach your car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street by Emmanuel United Reform Church or the car park at The Boundary House: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. Replies set the work; the price comes on the call while no one has set off yet.
Emptying your tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than with petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, however long it sits. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where the engine hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
We fire it up at the end. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running properly, and then we head off. When it is caught soon, the vehicle very rarely has lasting damage, and the whole job happens where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into many policies.
About Moredon, for a moment
Moredon is a suburban area in Wiltshire, situated near the River Ray and close to the nearby places of Haydon Wick, Greenmeadow, and Rodbourne. Moredon sits at an elevation of around 110 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Moredon is located approximately 26 miles from Oxford and 72 miles from London, making it a commuter-friendly location. Moredon has a population of around 8031 residents, who enjoy the area's riverside setting.
Moredon and Wiltshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over SN postcodes, the teams covering Moredon — a residential suburb — work nearby places as well, Greenmeadow and Rodbourne among them. The whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode that starts SN25 3.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to King George V Field Play Area or in a car park in the middle of Moredon, it doesn't need to move. Our engineers drain the car where it stands. Guessing doesn't help beside St John's Church, on a county line or anywhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
In one line: your situation
Motor never started: ring, and leave it switched off. Run already? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, in Moredon and Wiltshire, on 0333 366 0103.