Stockwitch Cross: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started afterwards. Not started so far? Then leave the car that way, wherever your car is — Stockwitch Cross or Urgashay. Leave the engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Stockwitch Cross. Already run? Stop when you safely can, then turn it off. It is a bigger job, yet stage one does not change.
Wherever around Somerset it happened, one of the cases below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Stockwitch Cross forecourt
Only now, bottle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Whether Esso, Texaco or anywhere else in Stockwitch Cross, the case is the same.
The upshot: of all places to find out, the forecourt is the best. Just the tank holds AdBlue; not one component beyond it has drawn it in.
Next: resist the temptation to fire it up only to move away from the pump. Ring us from the forecourt once your vehicle sits in a space — the attendants will help roll it — then save the receipt. Emptying it there at the pump is possible when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Stockwitch Cross drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. A bottle from the shop, tipped in at the drive — and it's just by the bin that the cap got your eye. It occurs on driveways just off Stockbridge Lane as regularly as anywhere.
The upshot: no miles since makes it nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue drops to the base inside your tank and waits. One night standing changes nothing.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether around Stockwitch Cross or Bridgehampton. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road in Stockwitch Cross with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the fill. It might have been driving to Wells, under 15 miles away, or just down Heathcote Road.
Meaning? Your fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. It's been through the fuel filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. It travels further with every mile driven and every restart.
Your move: stop anywhere sensible, then switch the motor off. Leave at the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, under 25 miles from Stockwitch Cross. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Roughly how far had it go? Say so when you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had this vehicle barely a week. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap was right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Somerset.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Any work on your car frequently requires the owner's approval under hire or company agreements.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, then us — settling it before we arrive is quicker. If you are stranded in the car park outside Yeovil Pen Mill, or by Cobham Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Stockwitch Cross?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe on a friend's driveway in Downhead, or rushing by Ilchester Community School on the school run.
Put simply: a spill near your filler does your engine unharmed. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't fire it up. Ring and give the details: we would sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one once your motor has been run.
What each AdBlue drain in Stockwitch Cross has in common
Whatever the case, one start is used. Forecourt, drive, The Podymore Inn's car park or a street beside Westland Gazelle HT2 — our van comes to the vehicle, and three questions follow: which liquid, which quantity, and if it ran. Replies shape the job; the price comes by phone while nobody has set off yet.
Then that tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If your motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Firing it up comes last. Our test that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before our technicians head off. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's spotted soon, and the whole job is done where your car is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment is made on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Stockwitch Cross itself
Stockwitch Cross is a small locality in inland Somerset, situated near the villages of Bridgehampton and Speckington. Stockwitch Cross has a relatively low elevation of around 20 metres, and is located approximately 13 miles from the city of Wells. Stockwitch Cross is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Stockwitch Cross is also within commuting distance of larger cities, with London being around 114 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Stockwitch Cross included
Speckington and Podimore have the identical vans as Stockwitch Cross, a small village, plus other towns throughout BA postcodes. Giving us a BA22 8 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No moving is required, whether stopped in the centre of Stockwitch Cross or on a layby en route to Farm Lane Plantation, so keep it put. The drain happens right there. Ring and check rather than guess if you're close to Fleet Air Arm Museum, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to explain.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Leave it that way and phone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Stockwitch Cross or anywhere in Somerset.