Nethercote: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the engine has run afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether your car is around Nethercote itself or out in Clapton-on-the-Hill. Usually this means draining and properly flushing it right there around Nethercote — so keep the ignition and engine off then ring 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, yes, but the same opening move.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, anywhere around Gloucestershire. Pick the one that fits.
On a Nethercote forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you are stood at the pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Be it The Co-operative Food, Texaco or anywhere else around Nethercote, the case is the same.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, even if the pump needs clearing. Have the staff to help pushing it into a bay, save the bottle, then ring us right there. Stuck beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit makes a busy forecourt safe, and so it can be drained in place.
At home in Nethercote with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had been lit 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. Just off Gorse Close is no different from any other place.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of the tank and remains put, however long the night.
Keep the keys indoors overnight — or someone may drive it away first thing — then call us. Out in Bourton-on-the-Water or here in Nethercote, the drain happens on your drive. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Nethercote?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two after the top-up. Somewhere on Hilcote Drive or else on the road towards Gloucester — under 25 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. The injection pump and each injector get it too on a bigger trip, after the fuel filter and lines have it. It goes deeper with every extra mile covered and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so and switch off. Nethercote lies under 25 miles from the M5; there, pull off at the first junction instead of pressing on for the services. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say how far the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've only driven this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you didn't know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you happen to be across Gloucestershire, any driver can be caught.
The point: just as above, divided by whether it ran, but with an added step. The owner frequently needs to sign off any work, under many hire and company contracts.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before we turn up than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Kingham, or by Birdland Park and Gardens, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Nethercote?
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Which cap came off, you cannot say; but the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Lower Slaughter, or in a rush outside Bourton-on-the-Water Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no damage to your engine. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be sucked in by firing up the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it got in, and never start your engine. Ring with what you saw: we'd rather find a clean tank than drain one once your motor has been run.
What every AdBlue drain in Nethercote has in common
The job opens identically, whichever the case. Three questions are asked when we arrive — at a filling station, a driveway, a street beside Labyrinth or the car park outside The Old New Inn: the liquid, the amount, and whether the motor has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our price, and those answers shape the work too.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is essential, because crystals build up and certain metals corrode, and neither washes out unaided. Clean diesel goes in once your filter has been flushed or replaced, and your car is then tested. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment our technicians arrive.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our test that it runs smoothly on fresh diesel comes before our technicians go. Permanent damage is very uncommon when it's caught early, and the whole job is done where the car is. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Nethercote, for a moment
Nethercote is a suburban area situated on the lakeside in Gloucestershire, with a mix of detached housing and scenic views. Nethercote sits at an elevation of 131 metres, near the Cotswold towns of Bourton-on-the-Water and Little Rissington. Nethercote is located approximately 21 miles from Gloucester and 74 miles from London, making it a relatively rural residential community. Nethercote has a population of around 890 residents, living in predominantly detached homes.
AdBlue drains around Nethercote, and across Gloucestershire too
As a residential suburb, Nethercote shares its vans with the surrounding places — Wyck Rissington, Little Rissington — all the way through GL postcodes. A postcode starting GL54 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Centre of Nethercote or a lay-by near Marshmouth Nature Reserve: wherever it is, your vehicle never needs to shift an inch for this drain. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Awkward to pin down? Close to The Model Village or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
The one-line version
Where it has not run, ring and keep it that way. Started already? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever it is, across Nethercote and Gloucestershire, on 0333 366 0103.