What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Redlands
One thing counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Redlands itself or out in Ewshot. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor both off. Across Redlands, that is generally drained and cleaned where it stands. When the engine has run, stop somewhere safe straight away, then turn the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Compare your case to one of the list below, wherever across Hampshire you are.
On a Redlands forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
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. It might be the BP, or the Shell, or a different forecourt around Redlands.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it can be. Still inside the tank, with nothing drawn through: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Next: resist the urge to start it only to free up the pump. A few things: a shove into a bay with the attendants helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from where you stand. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away gets cleared where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Redlands
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened on the drive. Driveways near The Hollow get it as much as anywhere.
The point: zero driving since makes this almost as good to spotting it at the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Next: prevent any early move by putting your keys in the house, then ring us. Warren Corner or Redlands: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets cleared. Our pumping kit works quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Redlands: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way after the fill. Maybe heading to Winchester, under 25 miles away, or just down Heath Lane.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue in. It has been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a sensible spot, stop, and switch the motor off. On the M3, under 5 miles from Redlands, that means the next exit, not the services further on. No trial starts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Roughly what distance had it go? Tell us as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
It is a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet was right beside the diesel. Any driver, wherever around Hampshire, might do it.
In short: one extra stage on top of the situations above, and those turn on if it has run. Any work on the car frequently needs the owner's approval under rental or company terms.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — settling it before our arrival is faster. Keep it switched off while the answer arrives, even if you're parked at Farnham or near Crondall Baptist Church.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank in Redlands?
"I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. Maybe on a friend's drive in Bowling Alley, or rushing by Crondall Primary School at the school run.
Put simply: a spill round your filler does the motor no harm. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Any AdBlue in your tank would be pulled in by firing up your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it went in, and don't turn your key. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Redlands: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation gets the same start to the work. Three questions come when our engineers reach the car — at a filling station, a drive, a street beside St Mary's or the car park outside The Hampshire at Crondall: the liquid, the amount, and whether it has run. Answers set the job; the price follows by phone while no one has set off yet.
Then the tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next is your filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your car. Where the engine has not been started, expect about half an hour once we arrive, for most cases.
Last, we start the engine. With new diesel in, it runs while we check it's running smoothly, and then we leave. When it is noticed soon, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover is built into plenty of policies.
About Redlands
Redlands is a small hamlet in Hampshire, situated inland at an elevation of 111 metres, and is located near the villages of Warren Corner, Crondall, and Doras Green. Redlands is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock and has a population of around 583 residents. Redlands sits within the wider countryside of the South East region, approximately 36.3 miles from London and 23.4 miles from the city of Winchester.
Redlands and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout GU postcodes, the teams serving Redlands — a rural hamlet — work nearby places as well, Crondall and Doras Green among them. The location is quickest from a postcode that starts GU10 5.
Central Redlands or a layby towards Lands Copse: either way it sits, your car doesn't need to move an inch for us. Our van empties it where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to describe, near All Saints Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In one line: your scenario
Where it has not started, phone and keep it off. Whichever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Hampshire and within Redlands — once you stop, turn off then phone, if it has run.