Titchfield Common: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of that turns on one detail: if your motor has started since the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Titchfield Common itself or out in Locks Heath. Leave your motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103; it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Titchfield Common. Already started? Pull over once you safely can, then switch it off. It is a larger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Hampshire it happened.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Titchfield Common forecourt
Imagine it: stood by the pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the filler you took off was not the right one. Anywhere in Titchfield Common, then — Shell, BP, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it gets. Still inside your tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Next: avoid the urge to start it only to free up the pump. Phone us from the forecourt after your vehicle sits in a bay — the staff will help push it — then keep the bottle. Our equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that can't be pushed away gets drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Titchfield Common drive?
Days had gone by with the warning light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the drive. It happens on drives just off Warsash Road as often as anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle hasn't moved since, it's almost equal to finding out at the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Put the keys indoors tonight — or a person may drive it away at breakfast — and phone us. Abshot or Titchfield Common: wherever your driveway is, that's where it is cleared. Our pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Titchfield Common: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way beyond the top-up. Anywhere on Little Abshot Road or heading to Southampton — under 10 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through the fuel system. The high-pressure pump and each injector see it as well on a bigger run, after the fuel filter and pipework have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Next: pick a sensible spot, pull in, and switch your motor off. Titchfield Common lies under 3 miles from the M27; there, pull off at the first junction instead of pushing on for the services. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. About what distance did it go? Say so when you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It's a car you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Hampshire.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Stuck by Abshot Community Centre or outside Swanwick until someone replies, your car remains turned off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Titchfield Common?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Locks Heath Infant & Nursery School, or on a friend's drive in Titchfield Park.
Meaning? Drips around the inlet never touch your motor at all. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting your car will draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Your move: act as if it got in, and never start the engine. Ring with the details: we'd sooner find a tank free of AdBlue than drain one once your motor has been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Titchfield Common has in common
Every case has the same start to the work. Wherever the vehicle stands — Sir Joseph Paxton's car park, a road beside St John, a driveway, a forecourt — our van arrives and asks about the fluid, the amount, plus if the engine has turned over. The price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
Then your tank is cleared 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, and so it does not rinse out on its own. Last come your filter, cleaned or renewed if necessary; fresh diesel; and a check of your vehicle. If your motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Finally, our engineers start the engine. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it is running correctly, and then we head off. Long-term damage is very unusual if it's noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where the vehicle is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours while the van travels.
About Titchfield Common itself
Titchfield Common is a coastal locality in Hampshire, situated near the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth. Titchfield Common lies at an elevation of around 30 metres, close to the Solent coast and within commuting distance of major urban centres. Titchfield Common is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its suburban and residential nature. Titchfield Common is also near several other small places, including Abshot, Fleetend, and Hook.
AdBlue drains across Hampshire, Titchfield Common included
Over PO postcodes, the vans serving Titchfield Common — a coastal area — work nearby towns as well, Fleetend and Hook among them. The whereabouts comes quickest from a postcode that starts PO14 4.
Central Titchfield Common or a lay-by towards Hunts Pond Road Recreation Ground: wherever it is, your car doesn't need to shift an inch for the drain. The drain is done right there. Phone and ask instead of guessing when you're by Genesis Centre, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your scenario, summed up
Still unrun? Leave it that way and phone. Run by now? Stop, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever it is, in Titchfield Common and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.