Shiplake Bottom: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether your motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Over in Kidmore End or here in Shiplake Bottom, an unstarted engine must remain unrun. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where the vehicle stands in Shiplake Bottom. Where the motor has run, stop safely straight away, then turn it off. Stage one stays the same, even though the work grows.
Wherever around Oxfordshire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Shiplake Bottom forecourt
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. It could be the the nearest petrol station, or perhaps the Stoke Row Garage, or a different station in Shiplake Bottom.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to discover it. Still inside your tank, with no fuel pulled through: that is where the AdBlue sits.
Your move: stay out of the car, however much the queue wants freeing. Have the staff to help rolling it to a bay, save the bottle, then ring us right there. Draining it there at the pump is possible when it can't be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Shiplake Bottom with AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Homes just off Smith Close get hit as often as anywhere else.
The point: no miles since leaves this nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. On the bottom of the tank is where AdBlue waits, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
Put the keys in the house tonight — or someone might drive it off at breakfast — then call us. Our engineers drain the car on your drive, whether that is in Shiplake Bottom or out in Sonning Common. The pumping kit works quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Shiplake Bottom?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been driving to Oxford, under 25 miles away, or just down Orchard Avenue.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. It's been through your filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. It travels deeper with each mile driven and each restart.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, then switch your engine off. On the M4, under 10 miles from Shiplake Bottom, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Call, saying how far the car was driven.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have had this vehicle hardly a week. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, so no one warned you the AdBlue inlet was right beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Oxfordshire.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the cases above, which depend on whether it's run. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our engineers arrive than after. If you are stuck in the car park outside Henley-On-Thames, or by The Church of Christ the King, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Shiplake Bottom: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. A faint ammonia whiff hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Sonning Common Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Gallowstree Common.
In short: a spill near the filler does your motor unharmed. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. Any AdBlue in that tank will be drawn in by turning on the vehicle, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Assume it got in, and never turn your engine. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Shiplake Bottom has in common
The work begins identically, whatever your situation. Filling station, drive, The Hare and Hounds's car park or a street beside Sonning Common Village Hall — our van comes to the car, and three questions come next: which liquid, which amount, and whether it ran. Your price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies set the work.
Then that tank is drained and the system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Clean diesel goes in once the fuel filter has been cleaned or changed, and the car is then tested. Never started? Then roughly half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
The final step is starting it. Our test that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers go. Our technicians do the whole job where the car is, and lasting damage is very rare when it has been caught quickly. Payment comes on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Shiplake Bottom, for a moment
Shiplake Bottom is a locality in Oxfordshire, situated in a rural area near the Chiltern Hills. Shiplake Bottom has a relatively low elevation of 97 metres and is surrounded by nearby places such as Sonning Common and Rotherfield Peppard. Shiplake Bottom is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its suburban and rural influences. Shiplake Bottom is located approximately 19.9 miles from Oxford and 36.9 miles from London.
Shiplake Bottom and Oxfordshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Rotherfield Peppard and Peppard Hill have the same vans as Shiplake Bottom, a small village, plus other towns over RG postcodes. Quickest of all: a RG4 9 postcode for where you stand.
No towing is required, be it parked in the centre of Shiplake Bottom or in a lay-by heading to Memorial Park, and so leave it where it is. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it stands. Awkward to pin down? Close to Catholic Church of Saint Michael or a border? Checking is better than guessing, so phone.
Your scenario, summed up
If it has not run, ring and keep it that way. Run already: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Shiplake Bottom or wherever across Oxfordshire.