AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Timsbury? Don't Start It
With AdBlue in your diesel tank, the ignition remains off and so does the motor. AdBlue is urea mixed in water. Not like fuel, it neither ignites nor mixes, and nothing happens till your motor sucks it through. If your motor has not run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually emptied and carefully rinsed where your car sits in Timsbury. Nothing comes before ringing 0333 366 0103.
Those opening minutes: AdBlue in your diesel tank around Timsbury
Do these:
- Remove the keys, and that stops anyone turning the power on.
- Near moving traffic? Then put your hazards on.
- Hold on to your receipt or the empty bottle, so you can tell us what went in and about how much.
- Our van locates you quickest with a postcode starting BA2 0, or simply the name of a street nearby, so phone from the spot.
Don't:
- Shifting the car just a short way is no reason to start the engine.
- Many diesels run their fuel pump the moment the ignition comes on, so leave the vehicle off.
- No extra fuel on top. The AdBlue won't mix, so it is pointless.
- Any driving at all is to be avoided, even a short stretch along Newmans Lane.
- By the road, do not try emptying it on your own.
The staff on duty at any Timsbury forecourt — the Murco included — will normally help pushing it aside if you ask. If you are on your own drive, leave the car just where it stands.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
Meant for your exhaust, AdBlue has no place in the motor. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into your exhaust gas to fresh it. Nothing in a fuel pump is made for this fluid — and none of that was meant to go through one.
Fuel blends; AdBlue, once poured in, won't. The behaviour is not at all like fuel's. It is heavier than diesel, so it sinks and gathers at the bottom of that tank, which is where the pickup draws fuel from. The first thing the fuel system pulls through, after it runs, is the AdBlue. So a car that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Wall Mead last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of your tank, and nothing has drawn it in.
After it's sucked in, the damage comes in two forms. As its water goes, the urea left behind crystallises, and the crystals block filters and settle in fine passages. And it is corrosive to some of the metals a fuel system is made from, and so it keeps running on the parts it hits for as long as it stays there. If the AdBlue is in the pipework, leaving it till morning around Timsbury leaves it worse. Inside that tank alone, time costs nothing. Diesel lubricates the injection pump and each injector as it passes; water gives no lubrication, and that is a separate kind of harm.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is often worse
Top up a diesel with petrol by mistake at the Murco Fual, and this problem is diluted fuel. No harm comes as long as it stays unused, blended into the diesel — only when the engine works on it.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the fluid as such is simply the wrong one. Not burning, it cannot just be run through. Deposits and corrosion remain after the following tankful, and AdBlue separates back out of the diesel, so watering it won't help. Hence the flush counts so much, and trying your engine "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than nearly any other slip — in Meadgate West or the heart of Timsbury equally.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Wherever in Somerset your vehicle has stopped, an unstarted engine leaves the AdBlue yet inside the reservoir: the easiest bit of any fuel system to empty.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Timsbury: how it ends up there
Nobody means to do it. The AdBlue filler on plenty of vehicles waits right next to your diesel filler, sometimes under the same flap, and the two caps can look alike in poor light. A bottle picked up when driving home and tipped in outside the house, rather than at the forecourt, is the usual story.
The ways it happens are few and familiar. Hurrying, outside St Mary's CofE Primary School, after a warning light flashed on during the school run, someone tops up the vehicle. Close to High Street, a driver tips a bottle in on that drive after work. Or your car is topped up in the car park outside The Seven Stars, in poor light, by somebody who has never opened that flap before.
It happens most in the cars people know least: a hire car, a new car, a company car, or the second vehicle of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Leave it off: that is the first response to an identical slip, wherever in Timsbury or the rest of Somerset you are.
Timsbury: started the motor with AdBlue in your diesel tank?
The AdBlue has left your tank, then. The filter and lines have had it pulled through, and any running time takes it on to the injection pump and each injector.
Maybe coming back from Timsbury Cricket Club, or part way across Timsbury, the motor might go rough, smoke, lose pace, light up the dash or stall. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and do not restart the car to check. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
On the M32, under 15 miles from Timsbury, the next junction is where to exit, and anywhere sensible is where to stop — not carrying on.
Hopping across Timsbury to the car park by The Methodist Church is one thing; heading for Bath, under 10 miles away, is something else, since every mile pushes the AdBlue further in. So mileage matters. Roughly how far had it come? Tell us.
Wherever your car came to a halt is where all of it gets done, even with more to flush once the motor has been started. Very seldom does it leave lasting damage when it is noticed soon.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve in Timsbury?
A road by Timsbury Royal British Legion, a drive, a layby or a filling station: anywhere your vehicle has come to rest in Timsbury, we come to it. The job rests on three replies, which we ask for before all else — which fluid was put in, the amount, and if your engine has run.
The contaminated diesel and the urea come out as one after your tank is emptied, right there. With AdBlue, far more than with petrol, flushing counts: the fuel system is cleaned all the way through since residue won't wash out by itself. Clean diesel goes in once the filter is cleaned — or swapped, when it needs to be — and then the vehicle is tested. Roughly half an hour once we arrive is usual for most jobs when your engine hasn't run. Quiet enough to use outside a house at night, and fine on a working forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
New diesel goes in to prime your system, and that's the last step. You drive off as soon as our technicians have started the engine, and it makes no difference whether your car is on a drive around Timsbury or in a space outside Oldfield Park. The check before our technicians go is that it runs properly on clean diesel. The entire job is done where the car is, so it never has to be taken to a garage. The insurer will want an engineer's report and your VAT invoice — each handed over afterwards.
About Timsbury, for a moment
Timsbury is a village in Somerset, situated inland at an elevation of 154 metres, approximately 6 miles from the city of Bath. Timsbury has a population of around 1909 people, with a predominance of semi-detached housing. Timsbury is located near other small places such as Greenvale, Bloomfield, and Hook, and is about 102 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains in Timsbury and across Somerset
Our teams that answer AdBlue jobs in Timsbury also cover the locations about it, Greenvale, Bloomfield and Hook among them, and most of Somerset beyond, across the BA postcode area. Near a boundary, or somewhere tricky to explain? Asking beats guessing, and so ring.
Timsbury is a rural village, and a mobile drain suits it: whether the vehicle is on a home drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt, our engineers drain it where it is, and so it never needs to be shifted to us.
Timsbury: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
Not one single price would be fair, because every job is different. Whether the motor has been running, and for how long, comes first in what moves the price. How much AdBlue went in comes next, and then the position of the car, since an open drive is easier for a technician to reach safely than a tight spot behind Tabor Free Methodist Church.
For that in mind, each call from Timsbury begins by asking the identical trio — what went in, what quantity, whether the engine ran — before a figure. When they are known, a range turns into a single fixed figure.
Quoted on the call before the van sets out, the job is settled on the day — card or phone, nothing in advance. Check your insurance while we're on the way: many carry misfuelling cover.
Next to the vehicle in Timsbury, right now?
Then the most handy thing you can do is nothing to your car. Keys out; engine and ignition off. Ring 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, the amount, plus if the engine ran are everything our engineers need. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest across Somerset, Timsbury included.