Don't Start It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Naunton Park
Motor off, ignition off: that's how you start if AdBlue has gone into your diesel tank. In plain terms, AdBlue is simply urea in water. Being water-based, it will not burn and never combines with diesel; trouble just comes when the pump begins drawing it. In Naunton Park, AdBlue in a diesel tank found before the motor runs usually means a drain and a thorough flush, just where your car is. No step comes before ringing 0333 366 0103.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in your diesel tank in Naunton Park
Things to do:
- Remove the keys, which prevents anyone switching the power on.
- If you are anywhere near moving traffic, put your hazards on.
- The empty bottle or the till receipt tells us the fluid and the quantity, so do not bin it away.
- Call us from where you are. A postcode starting GL53 7, or the name of the closest street, gets the van to you without a search.
Not to do:
- Not even briefly, and not to shift the car: the engine stays off.
- Turning your key to ignition alone starts the pump going on many diesels. Skip it.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding more diesel will not thin it.
- Even a short stretch along Naunton Park Close is too far to drive the vehicle.
- No draining it yourself, either, on the roadside.
Rolling your car off the pumps is a job for attendants to help with, wherever Naunton Park forecourt you're on, the Esso included. At your own drive, do not move it at all.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
Not your motor but your exhaust is where AdBlue is meant to go. Stored in a separate tank, it is injected into the exhaust to treat the fumes. Nothing in it is supposed to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is built to handle it.
Tipped in with your diesel, it keeps separate rather than blending — entirely different from fuel. It's heavier than diesel, and so it sinks and gathers at the bottom of that tank, which is where the pickup sucks fuel from. A car topped up on a drive in Leckhampton yesterday evening and left unstarted counts as the straightforward one. No pump has pulled the AdBlue up so far — but once the engine turns, that is what goes first, directly from the bottom of the tank.
Two kinds of harm come from there. It eats at some metals used in fuel systems, working on any part it touches until it is cleared completely. And when the water goes, the urea forms crystals that clog filters and lodge in narrow passages. Lines carrying AdBlue mean harm overnight for a vehicle parked around Naunton Park. Just inside the tank, it stays stable. Water protects nothing. The high-pressure pump and every injector depend on diesel running past them, and so the water content harms them in its own right.
Why AdBlue in a diesel is regularly more significant than petrol
An issue of thin fuel is what you end up with from filling a diesel with petrol from the Texaco. Mixed through your diesel and sitting unused, it's no threat at that stage; using the engine is the harm.
AdBlue in a diesel is another problem: not thin fuel, but no fuel at all. It doesn't burn, and so it cannot simply be run through. Nor can it be thinned, since it separates back out — and the next tankful won't clear away crystals or corrosion. So the flush counts more here, and turning your key "to see", in the heart of Naunton Park or out in Bafford, does more harm than nearly any other mistake.
As with petrol, there's good news. Not run? Then the AdBlue sits only in the tank, the easiest bit of the entire system to clear, wherever the car has stopped around Gloucestershire.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Naunton Park?
It's not on purpose. Plenty of vehicles keep the AdBlue inlet alongside the diesel one, occasionally behind one flap, and muddling them up is simple in poor light. A container picked up when heading home and poured in outside the house, instead of at the forecourt, is the usual route.
It tends to occur in a couple of familiar ways. Halfway through the morning drop-off, the dashboard flags it up, and outside Naunton Park Primary School the refill is hurried. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off Old Bath Road. Or someone new to that flap refills your vehicle in dim light, stopped in the car park by The Brown Jug.
It comes up most in a rental, a new vehicle, a fleet vehicle, or the other motor in a family with both fuel types — the cars people use least. Same slip, same first response — keep it off — wherever you happen to be around Naunton Park or the rest of Gloucestershire.
Already started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank in Naunton Park?
Then the AdBlue has left the tank. Given any running, it goes on to the injection pump and every injector, having passed through the filter and pipework.
Maybe returning from the green space at the edge of the village, or midway across Naunton Park, your motor might run rough, smoke, drop power, flash your dash or cut out. Stop when safe. Turn off. Leave the vehicle off rather than testing it again. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
Naunton Park sits under 5 miles from the M5; if you were on it, leave by the next junction and pull up safely instead of driving on.
Hopping across Naunton Park to the car park by Cheltenham Croquet Club is one thing; heading for Gloucester, under 10 miles away, is something else, since each mile pushes the AdBlue further in. So distance counts. Let us know about how far it had come.
Once the motor has been started, the flush covers more, and all of it is done where the car has come to a stop. Very rarely does it leave long-term damage when it's caught soon.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve around Naunton Park?
Our technicians come to the vehicle, wherever it has stopped around Naunton Park: a side street close to East Glos Club, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. Before anything else we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run, because those answers determine the work.
Then the tank is drained where the car waits, and so the tainted fuel and the AdBlue come out together. A careful flush counts far more with AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains won't wash out by itself. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Not run? In that case expect about half an hour on site for most jobs. Quiet enough for use outside a house at night, and safe on a busy forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
Lastly, the system is bled with new diesel. You drive off as soon as we have started the car, and it makes no difference whether your car is on a drive around Naunton Park or in a space by Cheltenham Spa. Before leaving, our technicians confirm it's running smoothly with new diesel in. The whole job is done where your car is, so it never has to be taken to a workshop. Afterwards, you are given paperwork for the insurer: a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer.
About Naunton Park
Naunton Park is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Gloucester, situated near the River Severn in Gloucestershire. Naunton Park sits at an elevation of 84 metres, with a mix of housing types, although detached homes are predominant. Naunton Park is close to nearby places such as Charlton Park and Moor End, and is within a short distance of Gloucester city centre.
AdBlue drains around Naunton Park and across Gloucestershire
AdBlue call-outs around Naunton Park are passed to teams that cover the towns near it — Charlton Park, Moor End plus Sandy Lane — and most of Gloucestershire beyond, across GL postcodes. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain, ring and ask instead of assuming.
Wherever the car stands — your driveway at home, a side street, a car park, a filling station — we drain it on the spot, and there's no need to bring it to us; that suits Naunton Park, a residential suburb, well.
What does AdBlue in a diesel tank cost to sort out in Naunton Park?
No flat price could be honest, since every job differs. What changes the cost is, first of all, whether your engine has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue went in; and finally where the vehicle is and whether our van can get to it safely, which is simpler on an open driveway than in a tight gap behind The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
That is why every call from Naunton Park starts with the same three queries, asked before giving a figure, not after: what was put in, how much, and whether it's run. The answers turn a range into a straight price.
You hear that price by phone, before anybody sets off, and you pay on the day, by card or over the phone, with nothing upfront. As the van is travelling, dig out your insurance: many include misfuelling.
Naunton Park: still next to the car?
Right now, the best thing to do with the car is to leave it. Ignition off, engine off, keys out. Tell us it's AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and whether the engine ran, on 0333 366 0103. After that Petrol in Diesel handles it, in Naunton Park or wherever within Gloucestershire.