What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Muddlebridge
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has been started since. Out in Brynsworthy Park or here around Muddlebridge, an unrun engine should remain unrun. Normally that means emptying and properly flushing it right there around Muddlebridge — so keep your key and motor off and phone 0333 366 0103. Pull over the minute you safely can and switch off, if it has already run. A bigger job, yes, yet the identical first step.
Match your case to a situation from the ones below, wherever around Devon you are.
Muddlebridge forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Anywhere in Muddlebridge, then — Sainsbury's, BP, or anywhere else nearby.
The point: of every spot to find out, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: resist the urge to start it only to free up the pump. Ring us from the forecourt once your car is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and keep the receipt. Can't move the car by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a live forecourt safe, so we can drain the vehicle where it is.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Muddlebridge drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. Picked up a bottle, tipped it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, after the fact. It takes place on driveways just off Mill Hill as frequently as anywhere.
The point: no miles since makes this almost equal to finding it at the pump. As it is unable to blend, AdBlue drops low inside the tank and stays. A night parked changes none of that.
Keep your keys in the house tonight — or a person may take it off at breakfast — and phone us. Our technicians drain the car on your driveway, whether that is in Muddlebridge or out in Combrew. Night-time empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
Muddlebridge: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two after the top-up. Anywhere on Combrew Lane or else on the road towards Exeter — under 50 miles away.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it too on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and lines have had it. It goes deeper with each mile driven and every restart.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Muddlebridge lies under 50 miles from the M5; on it, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on to the services. It will not have cleared, so there is no point restarting to find out. Phone us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had this vehicle barely a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Any driver, wherever in Devon, might make the same.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, only with one added stage. Work on the vehicle often needs the owner's go-ahead under rental or fleet agreements.
Next: phone the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Stranded by St. Peter or at Barnstaple until the firm answers, the car remains turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Muddlebridge?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; no clear recollection of the cap. Look familiar? The gates of Roundswell Community Primary Academy in a hurry, say, or a friend's driveway out in Brynsworthy.
In short: spillage near your filler does your motor no harm. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. Any AdBlue in the tank would be pulled in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Next: act as though it got in, and leave your engine off. Ring and give the details: we would sooner find a clean tank than empty one once your motor has been run.
The common ground in each Muddlebridge AdBlue drain
Each situation gets the same start to the work. Anywhere your car stands — Fox and Hounds's car park, a road by Super Dad, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks about the fluid, the quantity, plus if your motor has turned over. Answers shape the work; the quote comes on the call whilst no one has left yet.
Then that tank is emptied and the fuel 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. Last are the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; fresh diesel; and a check of the car. Not started? In that case roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Firing it up comes last. Our technicians check it runs correctly on new diesel before we go. We do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been noticed early. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Muddlebridge, briefly
Muddlebridge is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Devon, with a low elevation of around 12 metres. Muddlebridge lies near several other small settlements, including Combrew, Bickington, and Fremington, and is approximately 35 miles from the city of Exeter. Muddlebridge is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Muddlebridge is located in the South West region of England, about 175 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains across Devon, Muddlebridge included
Muddlebridge is a rural hamlet, and the same vans that cover it work the places around it too, Bickington and Fremington among them, across the EX postcode area. Fastest of all: a EX31 2 postcode to show your location.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Fremington Village Green or in a car park in the middle of Muddlebridge, it does not need to shift. The drain happens right there. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Sticklepath Methodist Church or close to a border, ring and ask instead of guessing.
Your situation, summed up
Where it has not started, phone then keep it that way. Run by now: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Muddlebridge or anywhere across Devon.