Southlands: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of it hinges on a single detail: if your engine has started after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Not started so far? Then keep it that way, wherever the vehicle is — Southlands or Westham. Leave your motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Southlands. When your motor has been run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn it off. Step one stays the same, even though the job is bigger.
Below: the situations our engineers meet, anywhere in Dorset. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Southlands forecourt
Only now, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Perhaps you are at the Esso, possibly at the Shell, maybe somewhere else around Southlands.
Meaning? Finding out here is as good as it can be. Nothing has drawn it in, so the AdBlue stays only inside your tank.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — so do not get back in. Get the attendants to help pushing it into a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us right there. Can't move the vehicle by the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a busy forecourt sensible, so it can be drained in place.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Southlands
Several days had gone by with the warning light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Drives close to Cleves Close get it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it in Southlands or Wyke Regis. Even at night, the pumps stay quiet enough for a residential street.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Southlands?
Filled up, drove away, and before long your motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up your dash. Somewhere along Hillcrest Road or else heading to Wells — under 50 miles away.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue in. Distance sets how far it gets: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. More miles, more restarts: further it travels.
Do this: stop somewhere safe, then switch your motor off. Southlands lies under 50 miles from the M5; on it, pull off at the next junction rather than pressing on to the services. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Ring us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had this vehicle barely a week. The AdBlue filler sits right next to the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever around Dorset, could do it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Any work on your car frequently requires the owner's approval under hire or company terms.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. If you are stranded in the car park outside Weymouth, or by Sandsfoot Castle, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Southlands?
Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think it did. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia near the filler; no clear memory of which cap. Look familiar? A rushed top-up by the gates of Holy Trinity Church of England VC Primary School & Community Nursery, or a call to a friend in Lanehouse: both fits.
The point: your motor is not harmed by some AdBlue spilled around the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank would be drawn in by firing up the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it went in, and keep the engine off. Describe what you noticed on your phone. A clear tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
Southlands: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job begins the same way, whatever your situation. Three things are asked once we reach the car — on a filling station, a drive, a road beside Wyke Regis Methodist Church or the car park outside The Wyke Smugglers: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has run. Those answers decide this work, and you hear our price by phone, before anyone heads out.
Then the tank is emptied and the system cleaned 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. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers get there.
Our engineers start it at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running correctly, and then we go. Our technicians do the entire job where the car is, and lasting damage is very rare if it has been caught quickly. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth remembering: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy while you wait is worthwhile.
About Southlands itself
Southlands is a coastal suburban area in Dorset, situated near the towns of Wyke Regis and Weymouth. Southlands has a population of around 3931 people and is characterized by its semi-detached housing stock. Southlands is located at a low elevation of 12 metres above sea level, close to the sea. Southlands is also within commuting distance of larger towns, with Wells being the nearest city at 43.1 miles away.
Southlands and Dorset: AdBlue drains across the area
Over DT postcodes, the teams covering Southlands — a residential suburb — reach nearby places as well, Rodwell and Weymouth included. The whereabouts is clearest from a postcode beginning DT4 9.
Central Southlands or a lay-by towards Sandsfoot Gardens: either way it is, the vehicle never needs to shift at all for this drain. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Tricky to pin down? Close to All Saints Church or a county line? Asking is better than guessing, so phone.
Your situation, summed up
If it has not started, ring then leave it off. Run by now? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever it is, in Southlands and Dorset, on 0333 366 0103.