AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Temple Cloud, and What to Do Next
Everything hinges on a single fact: whether the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Out in White Cross or right in Temple Cloud, an unstarted motor must remain unrun. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. Across Temple Cloud, that is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. Where your motor has been run, stop somewhere safe straight away, then turn the vehicle off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Below: the situations our engineers meet, wherever around Somerset. Choose yours.
Temple Cloud forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Imagine it: stood by the pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the filler you took off wasn't the right one. Perhaps you are at the Texaco, possibly at the Murco, maybe somewhere else around Temple Cloud.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the pump needs freeing. Get the staff to help rolling it into a bay, save the receipt, then phone us right there. If it can't be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Temple Cloud
The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Houses just off Temple Inn Lane are hit as often as anywhere else.
In short: if your car hasn't been driven since, it's nearly as good as finding out at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of that tank and stays there, no matter how long it waits.
Next: prevent an early-morning drive by keeping the keys indoors, then phone us. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it in Temple Cloud or Cholwell. Late-night clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
Temple Cloud: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way beyond the top-up. Perhaps it was on Paulmont Rise, perhaps on the way out towards Wells, under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through the fuel system. Mileage sets how deep it goes: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. More miles, more starts: deeper it goes.
Next: pick a safe place, stop, then turn your motor off. On the M32, under 10 miles from Temple Cloud, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. About what distance had it gone? Say so as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've only driven the car a week. On your own vehicle, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is right by the diesel inlet — news to you. Any driver, anywhere around Somerset, might make the same.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the situations above, which turn on if it's run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before our engineers turn up than after. Stranded near Saint Barnabas or at Keynsham till the firm answers, the car stays turned off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Temple Cloud
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. A faint ammonia smell hangs around the filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Hallatrow, or rushing by Cameley CEVC Primary School at the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never touch the engine at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, starting your car would pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, and keep your motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Temple Cloud: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Every situation has the same opening to the job. Filling station, drive, The Temple Inn's car park or a street by Temple Cloud Village Hall — the van comes to the vehicle, and three answers follow: what liquid, which amount, and whether it has run. Your price is given over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies set the work.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out unaided; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Next comes the fuel filter — flushed, or swapped where necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the car. Where the motor has not run, expect roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Our engineers fire it up at the end. Our engineers make sure it runs properly on new diesel before we go. Long-term damage is very unusual when it is caught quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Temple Cloud
Temple Cloud is a village in the South West of England, situated near the River Chew in Somerset. Temple Cloud sits at an elevation of 128 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Temple Cloud is located near several other small villages, including Cholwell, Cameley, and Clutton, and is approximately 8.9 miles from the city of Wells. Temple Cloud has a population of around 815 residents.
AdBlue drains about Temple Cloud and across Somerset
Being a village, Temple Cloud shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Clutton, Cameley — right across BS postcodes. Giving us a BS39 5 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Temple Cloud Cricket Club or in a car park in the middle of Temple Cloud, it does not need to shift. Where it sits, that is where it gets cleared. Assuming won't help near St Augustine of Hippo, close to a county line or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
In one line: your scenario
Still unrun? Keep it that way then ring. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, across Temple Cloud and Somerset, on 0333 366 0103.