Oving: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the motor has run since it went in. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is around Oving itself or out in North Marston. Leave the motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Oving. Stop the moment it is safe then turn off, if it has been run. A bigger job, yes, but the same opening step.
Further down: the cases our technicians see, anywhere in Buckinghamshire. Pick the one that fits.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Oving forecourt
You're 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. It might be the Gulf, or the JET, or a different forecourt around Oving.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. No pump has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays only in your tank.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the pump needs freeing. Three things: a push into a space with the attendants assisting, the receipt saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Can't move the car beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, so we can drain the vehicle in place.
Oving, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the dash, a reminder had shown for days. Picked up a container, poured it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, too late. It takes place on drives just off The Pightle as often as anywhere.
The upshot: zero miles since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of that tank and remains there, no matter how long the night.
Next: keys indoors, and so nobody takes your car off first thing. After that, phone. Out in Hunters Yard or right here in Oving, the draining happens on your drive. Even at night, the pumps are quiet enough for a driveway.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Oving?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up the dash. Bowling Alley, perhaps, or the way towards Milton Keynes — a trip of under 15 miles.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through already. Distance sets how far it goes: filter and lines to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more starts: further it travels.
Pull in safely — that is the next step — then turn it off. Services further along are too far: from the M40, under 15 miles out of Oving, take the first junction. It will not have cleared, so there's no point restarting to check. Phone, and say what distance your vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Buckinghamshire.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts too — run or unrun — and one further step. Any work on your car often needs the owner's approval under rental or fleet agreements.
Settling it before we arrives is quicker, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, then us. If you are stranded in the car park outside Aylesbury Vale Parkway, or by Village Hall, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Oving: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Whitchurch Combined School in a hurry, say, or a friend's driveway over in Creslow.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no damage to your engine. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank will be pulled in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it was put in, and don't turn the key. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Oving AdBlue drain
Every case has the same start to the work. Filling station, drive, The Black Boy's car park or a road beside All Saints — the van reaches your car, and three answers follow: what liquid, what amount, and if it has run. The price is given on the call, ahead of anyone setting off, and those answers set the work.
Then the tank is drained and the system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Last are the filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; fresh diesel; and a test of the car. Where your engine hasn't been started, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most jobs.
The last step is starting the car. We check it runs properly on new diesel before we leave. The entire job is done where the car is, and when it is noticed soon, long-term damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours while the van travels.
About Oving itself
Oving is a small village in Buckinghamshire, situated in the inland countryside of the South East region. Oving sits at an elevation of around 165 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Oving is located near several other villages, including Hunters Yard, Pitchcott, and Whitchurch, and is approximately 11.8 miles from Milton Keynes. Oving has a population of around 534 residents.
AdBlue drains in Oving, and across Buckinghamshire too
Oving is a rural village, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Pitchcott and Whitchurch among them, across the HP postcode area. Telling us a HP22 4 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is required, whether stopped in the centre of Oving or on a layby en route to the green space at the edge of the village, and so leave it put. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Guessing won't help near Whitchurch Methodist Church, on a border or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Leave the vehicle that way and ring. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across Buckinghamshire and within Oving — once you pull over, turn off then phone, if it has run.