Turlin Moor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
If AdBlue has gone into the diesel tank, keep your engine off then leave your ignition off. AdBlue is urea dissolved in water. Not like fuel, it neither burns nor mixes, and no harm starts until the engine pulls it round. In Turlin Moor, AdBlue in a diesel tank caught before your motor runs normally comes down to a drain and a thorough flush, right where your car is. Nothing comes before calling 0333 366 0103.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Turlin Moor: the first few minutes
Things to do:
- Keys out — that way nobody can switch anything on.
- Close to moving traffic? Then put the hazards on.
- So you can give us which liquid it was and roughly how much, keep your receipt or the empty bottle.
- Tell us a postcode starting BH16 5, or whichever street is closest, and our van reaches you directly — so ring wherever you are.
Not to do:
- Shifting your car just a few yards is no reason to start your motor.
- Many diesels power their fuel pump the instant your ignition comes on, so keep the car off.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding more fuel will not thin it.
- Leave the vehicle where it is instead of driving it anywhere, even a short stretch down Turlin Road.
- Beside the road, do not try emptying it yourself.
The attendants working at any Turlin Moor forecourt — the Esso included — will normally lend a hand rolling it aside if you ask. If you are on your own drive, leave the car just where it is.
What AdBlue does in a diesel tank
AdBlue is made for the exhaust, not the motor. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it. Not one side suits the other: urea does not belong in an injection pump, and a pump cannot deal with urea.
Inside a diesel tank it behaves very differently from fuel. It doesn't mix in. It drops, because it's denser than diesel, and pools down where the intake takes its supply from. The first thing your fuel system pulls through, after it runs, is the AdBlue. So a vehicle that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Upton last night, and has not been started since, is still the simple case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of the tank, and nothing has pulled it in.
After it's pulled in, the harm takes 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, so it keeps running on the components it gets to for as long as it remains there. Overnight, a vehicle sitting in Turlin Moor with AdBlue through its pipework grows worse; if it is just inside the tank, nothing changes. Diesel protects the high-pressure pump and every injector as it passes; water gives none of that, and that is a separate kind of harm.
Why AdBlue in a diesel is frequently more serious than petrol
Put petrol in a diesel at the Shell and you have an issue of thin fuel. It mixes with your diesel, and while it is inside the tank it causes no damage; the damage comes from running your motor on it.
With AdBlue in a diesel, the fluid as such is simply the wrong one. Because it does not burn, running it through is not an option. Crystals and corrosion stay through the following fill, and AdBlue separates back out of your diesel, so thinning it won't help. Hence the flush matters more, and turning your key "to see" does more harm with AdBlue than almost any other mistake — in Lake or the centre of Turlin Moor alike.
The good news is the same as with petrol. Clearing a tank is the simplest job on any fuel system, and without running, the AdBlue remains in there — wherever in Dorset the vehicle has stopped.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Turlin Moor?
Many vehicles place the AdBlue cap beside the diesel cap, occasionally under one flap, and after dark the two can appear the same. Nobody means it. It usually happens outside the house, from a bottle grabbed en route home, not at the filling station.
Mostly, it occurs in one of a couple of familiar ways. Hurrying, outside Bayside Academy, after a warning light flashed on during the school run, a parent tops up the car. In the evening, a bottle is tipped in on a driveway near Russell Gardens. Another version: dim light, the car park by The Red Lion, and a driver using that flap for the first time.
It crops up the most in a rental, a brand-new car, a company vehicle, or the other motor of a family with one of each fuels — the cars people use the least. Same slip, an identical first step — keep it switched off — anywhere you are in Turlin Moor or the remainder of Dorset.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Turlin Moor, and the engine started?
The AdBlue has left that tank, then. Via the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — with any running time — on to the injection pump and each injector: that is where it has gone.
Rough running, smoke, lost power, dashboard lights or stalling: any might show up, perhaps midway across Turlin Moor or returning from Turlin Moor Recreation Ground. No starting it again to check: pull over when it is safe, then turn everything off. More of that is pulled through with each start.
Leave the M27, under 25 miles from Turlin Moor, at the first junction and park safely, not carrying on.
How far it went counts. A few hundred yards across Turlin Moor to the car park by The Hub is a very different job from a run towards Salisbury, under 50 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into your system with every mile. Let us know about how far it had come.
Our engineers do all of the flushing where your car has come to a stop, and once your engine has been run there is more of it. Lasting damage is very rare if it's caught soon.
What clearing AdBlue from a diesel involves around Turlin Moor
We come to the car, wherever it has stopped around Turlin Moor: a side street near Turlin Moor Youth Centre, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. The job depends on three replies, which our technicians ask for first — what went in, the amount, and if the motor has turned over.
Then the tank is cleared where your car sits, so the contaminated fuel and the AdBlue come out together. The system is cleaned thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol, since what it leaves behind does not rinse out on its own. Testing the vehicle comes at the end, after fresh diesel is added and the fuel filter gets cleaned or, where needed, replaced. Roughly half an hour once we arrive is usual for most jobs when your engine has not run. Explosion-proof pumps mean a live forecourt sensible to work on, and they're quiet enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
The final step is to bleed the system on clean diesel. Whether it's a parking bay outside Hamworthy or a drive in Turlin Moor, that is where our engineers fire it up and you head off. The test before our engineers leave is that it runs smoothly on new diesel. The entire job is done where the car is, so it never has to be taken to a garage. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report after that, which is what insurers ask for.
About Turlin Moor and where it is
Turlin Moor is a coastal suburban area in Dorset, situated near the shores of Poole Harbour. Turlin Moor has a low elevation of around 4 metres, and its proximity to the sea has influenced its development. Turlin Moor is close to nearby places such as Rockley Sands and Hamworthy, and is characterized by semi-detached housing.
Turlin Moor and Dorset: AdBlue drains across the area
Rockley Sands, Ham Hill and Hamworthy are among the towns around Turlin Moor that the same teams reach, together with most of Dorset further out, throughout the BH postcode area. Near a boundary, or somewhere awkward to explain? Asking is better than assuming, so ring.
A van that comes to you fits Turlin Moor, a residential suburb: there's no need to bring your car to us, since our technicians drain it there, in a driveway, a side street, a car park or a forecourt.
AdBlue in a diesel tank around Turlin Moor: the cost of fixing it
Not one flat price would be honest, because every job is different. What shifts the cost is, first of all, whether the motor has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue went in; and then where your car is and whether our van can reach it safely, which is simpler on an open drive than in a tight spot behind St Gabriel.
With that reason, every call from Turlin Moor begins with the identical trio — which fluid got in, how much, if the engine ran — before a quote. Their replies shrink a range right down to one figure.
Our quote is given during the call, before anyone leaves; settling up comes on the day, by card or by phone, and nothing upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
Turlin Moor: still alongside your car?
Not touching your car is, then, the most useful thing open to you. Keys out; engine and ignition off. Ring 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, the amount, and whether the engine ran is all we need. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder across Dorset, Turlin Moor included.