What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Summerlug
One fact matters above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your engine has run afterwards. Wherever the vehicle is — Stratfield Mortimer, Summerlug — never start an engine that has not been started yet. Normally that is emptying and properly cleaning it right there in Summerlug — and so keep your key and engine off and call 0333 366 0103. Where your motor has run, stop safely first, then turn the vehicle off. It is a larger job, though stage one doesn't change.
Further down: the cases we see, wherever around Hampshire. Choose the one that fits.
At the petrol pump around Summerlug: AdBlue in a diesel
Only now, bottle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Somewhere around Summerlug, then — Esso, Shell, or somewhere else close by.
Put simply: there is no better spot exists to spot it. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Do this: stay out of the car, even if the pump needs freeing. A few things: a push into a bay with the staff helping, the receipt kept, and a ring to us from where you stand. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Summerlug
For days the dash had been warning you. A bottle bought at the shop, emptied in at the driveway — and it was just by the recycling that the cap got your eye. Right off Simms Farm Lane is no different from any other place.
Meaning? As long as the vehicle has not moved since, it is second to the pump case. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of that tank and stays there, however long it waits.
Put the keys indoors tonight — otherwise a person may take it off first thing — then call us. In Mortimer or here in Summerlug, the drain is done at your drive. Our pumping kit works quiet enough that it won't wake the street at night.
On the road around Summerlug with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and soon the motor was running unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere on Drury Lane or on the road to Winchester — under 25 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. It has been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. More driving, more starts: deeper it goes.
Pull in safely — that is the first step — then switch it off. Service stations farther along are too far: on the M4, under 5 miles out of Summerlug, take the first junction. Don't restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a car you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet was just beside your diesel. Across Hampshire, nobody is safe from it.
In short: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those turn on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Settling it before we turn up is faster, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Keep it off as the reply comes, even if you are waiting at Mortimer or close to 1st Mortimer Scouts.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Summerlug?
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been at a friend's drive in Burghfield Common, or in a rush by Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant School at the school run.
The upshot: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the filler. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Firing up the vehicle won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will suck it in.
Next: assume it went in, and leave your motor off. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Summerlug has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things are asked when we reach the car — at a forecourt, a drive, a road by St John's Hall or the car park at The Turners Arms: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. Those answers decide the work, and you hear our price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Then that tank is drained and the fuel system purged thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Then is the fuel filter — flushed, or replaced when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of your vehicle. If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Finally, we fire it up. Our technicians confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel before we go. Long-term damage is very rare when it is noticed soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we arrive: misfuelling cover comes included in plenty of policies.
About Summerlug itself
Summerlug is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Hampshire, with an elevation of 97 metres. Summerlug lies within the South East region of England, approximately 41.6 miles from London and 23.9 miles from the city of Winchester. Summerlug is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Summerlug is surrounded by nearby places such as Mortimer, Four Houses Corner, and Mortimer West End, and has a population of around 1757 residents.
Summerlug and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout RG postcodes, the teams serving Summerlug — a residential suburb — reach nearby towns too, Four Houses Corner and Mortimer West End included. A postcode starting RG7 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No moving is needed, whether parked in the centre of Summerlug or in a layby heading to Alfred Palmer Memorial Field, and so keep it put. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Tumulus or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your scenario
Not run yet: keep it off and ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, across Summerlug and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.