AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Primrose Hill, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the motor has been run since it went in. Not run yet? Then keep it like that, wherever your vehicle sits — Primrose Hill or Combe Park. Leave your motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Primrose Hill. Already started? Pull over when safe, then switch it off. A larger job, yes, yet the same first move.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Somerset it happened.
On a Primrose Hill forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Somewhere in Primrose Hill, then — Sainsbury's, Esso, or somewhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so do not get back in. Three things: a push into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. Can't move the car by the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt sensible, and so we can drain it in place.
Primrose Hill, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. A bottle bought at the garage, tipped in on the driveway — and it's just by the bin that the cap caught your eye. Driveways near Summerhill Road see it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: zero driving since leaves it almost equal to spotting it at the petrol pump. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and remains there, however long it waits.
Put your keys indoors overnight — or a person might take it off first thing — then call us. In Sion Hill or here around Primrose Hill, the draining happens at your driveway. Our pumping kit works quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
On the road around Primrose Hill with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Somewhere along Mountain Ash or else on the road towards Bath — under 3 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. Through your filter, along the pipework, and — the more the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a safe spot, stop, then switch the engine off. Primrose Hill sits under 10 miles from the M4; on it, pull off at the first junction instead of pressing on to the services. No test starts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Call, saying what distance the vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so no one told you the AdBlue cap sits right beside the diesel. Anyone, anywhere across Somerset, could make it.
Meaning? Whatever applies above applies here — run or unrun — and one extra step. Many hire and company agreements need the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Sorting it before the van turn up is faster, so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Leave the car off as the answer comes, whether you are waiting at Oldfield Park or close to Shakespeare Monument.
Primrose Hill: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
At times the fair answer is "I think so". Too light, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near the filler; a hazy recollection of which cap. Look familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Andrew's Church School, or on a friend's drive in Beacon Hill.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never reach the engine at all. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, firing up the vehicle would draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't fire it up. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one drained.
What each AdBlue drain around Primrose Hill has in common
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Filling station, driveway, The Old Crown's car park or a road beside Minerva the Owl — our van comes to the car, and three questions come next: what liquid, what quantity, and if it has run. Your price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and those replies set the job.
Draining the tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more important with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, no matter how long it sits. Then comes the fuel filter — cleaned, or replaced when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Where the engine hasn't run, allow about half an hour on site, for most jobs.
Firing it up comes last. Before our engineers go, it's checked to confirm it runs correctly on new diesel. Our engineers do the entire job where the car is, and permanent damage is very unusual if it has been spotted early. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Primrose Hill itself
Primrose Hill is a suburban area located near the city of Bath in Somerset, sitting at an elevation of around 115 metres. Primrose Hill is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Sion Hill and Weston Park. Primrose Hill remains a residential community on the outskirts of Bath, with the city centre just over a mile away. Primrose Hill is also near Lansdown, another local area of note.
Primrose Hill and Somerset: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout BA postcodes, the teams covering Primrose Hill — a residential suburb — reach nearby towns as well, Weston Park and Lansdown among them. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning BA1 2.
No moving is required, be it parked in the centre of Primrose Hill or on a lay-by heading to Weston Park, and so keep it put. Where it stands, that's where it gets emptied. Guessing won't help beside Temple of Minerva, on a county line or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
Your situation, in one line
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Run already: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Primrose Hill or wherever across Somerset.