Shipham: 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 engine has run since it was put in. Over in Sidcot or here in Shipham, an unstarted motor should remain that way. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, done right where the vehicle stands in Shipham. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one remains the same, even if the work is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Somerset it happened.
At the petrol pump in Shipham: AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, bottle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Somewhere in Shipham, then — the nearest petrol station, Texaco, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is the best it gets. Only your tank holds AdBlue; not one component past it has drawn any in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Phone us from the forecourt after the vehicle is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — and save the bottle. If it cannot be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Shipham
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. Bought a container, poured it in at home, binned the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, too late. It occurs on drives just off Court Lane as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and remains there, no matter how long it waits.
Next: keys indoors, and so no one drives your car off first thing. Then, ring. Rowberrow or Shipham: wherever your drive is, that's where it gets cleared. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Shipham: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and soon the engine was turning unevenly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. Anywhere along Allens Lane or on the road towards Wells — under 10 miles away.
The point: your system has pulled AdBlue in already. The injection pump and every injector get it too on a longer trip, once the filter and lines have it. It travels further with every mile covered and each restart.
Do this: pull up anywhere safe, then turn the engine off. Services further along can wait: from the M5, under 5 miles out of Shipham, use the next junction. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, saying what distance your vehicle was driven.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Somerset.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Work on your vehicle frequently requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet agreements.
Settling it before the van turn up is faster, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you're stuck in the car park outside Yatton, or by Shipham Village Sign, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Shipham?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. What cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels less than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Shipham Church of England First School, or on a friend's drive in Dinghurst.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no harm to your motor. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in the tank would be pulled in by starting your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not crank it. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one drained.
What every AdBlue drain around Shipham has in common
No matter the situation, one start applies. Anywhere your car stands — The Swan Inn, Rowberrow's car park, a street by St Leonards, a driveway, a forecourt — our van gets there and asks for the liquid, the amount, plus whether your engine has been run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those replies shape the work too.
A thorough flush follows the drain. With petrol it's routine; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals form and certain metals are attacked, and neither washes away unaided. Finally are the filter, cleaned or replaced as needed; clean diesel; and a check of the car. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Starting it comes at the end. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it is running correctly, and then we go. The entire job is done where the car is, and when it is caught quickly, permanent damage is very uncommon. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Many policies include misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Shipham and where it is
Shipham is a rural village in Somerset, situated inland at an elevation of 149 metres, approximately 9.7 miles from the city of Wells. Shipham has a population of around 1104 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Shipham is close to nearby places such as Rowberrow, Star, and Winterhead, and is about 115.8 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains around Shipham, and across Somerset too
Star and Winterhead get the same vans as Shipham, a rural village, plus further towns over BS postcodes. Quickest of all: a BS25 1 postcode for your location.
Stopped en route to Rowberrow Warren, or bang in the heart of Shipham, your vehicle remains put — there is no need to move it at all. We drain it where it sits. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Shipham Village Hall or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Your scenario, in one line
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and call. Started by now? Pull over, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, in Shipham and Somerset, on 0333 366 0103.