--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Uplyme? Next Steps canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/uplyme-devon/ location: Uplyme county: Devon latitude: 50.735320 longitude: -2.957500 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-06 --- # What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Uplyme Everything turns on one detail: whether the motor has started after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Anywhere your vehicle stands — Lyme Regis, Uplyme — don't run a motor that has not run yet. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out just where your car stands in Uplyme. Already run? Stop once safe, then switch it off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same. Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Devon it happened. ## On a Uplyme forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, holding the bottle, you realise the cap you opened wasn't the correct one. Somewhere in Uplyme, then — Murco, Harvest Energy, or somewhere else close by. In short: no better place exists to spot it. Only your tank has AdBlue; no part past it has taken any in. Your move: keep out of the car, even if the queue wants clearing. Have the staff to help rolling it to a space, save the receipt, then ring us right there. Can't move it by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit makes a live forecourt safe, so we can drain it where it is. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Uplyme On your dash, a warning had been lit all week. A bottle bought at the shop, tipped in on the drive — and it's just by the recycling that the cap caught a second look. Driveways close to Church Street get it as much as any other street. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of your tank and remains put, however long the night. Next: keys indoors, and so nobody drives the car off first thing. Then, ring. Out in Holcombe or right here around Uplyme, the drain happens on your drive. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway. ## Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel in Uplyme? You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe driving to Exeter, under 50 miles away, or just along Gore Lane. What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. Past the fuel filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — on into the injection pump and every injector. Each restart, like every mile, carries it deeper. What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so then switch off. Uplyme sits under 25 miles from the M5; there, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on to the services. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Phone, and say how far your car was driven. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles You've only driven this vehicle for days. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, its cap is right by the diesel inlet — news to you. Throughout Devon, nobody is safe from it. What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the car. Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it early saves time. Stranded near Uplyme Village Hall or at Axminster until someone answers, the vehicle remains turned off throughout. ## Uplyme: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank? Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. It might have been on a friend's driveway in Dragons Hill, or in a rush by Mrs Ethelston's CofE Primary Academy at the school run. Meaning? Spills around the inlet don't reach your motor at all. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in that tank would be pulled in by turning on your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case. Do this: act as if it got in, and don't start the motor. Describe what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank checked counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one drained. ## What each AdBlue drain around Uplyme has in common No matter the situation, a single start is used. Forecourt, drive, The Talbot Arms's car park or a road beside St Peter and St Paul — our van comes to the car, and three questions follow: what liquid, what amount, and if it ran. Over the phone, before dispatch, you are told the quote, and those replies decide the job too. Draining your tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't clear on their own, however long you wait. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Never started? Then about half an hour once we are there is most jobs. The final step is starting it. With clean diesel in, it runs while our technicians check it's running smoothly, and then we head off. Permanent damage is very unusual if it's caught soon, and the entire job is done where your car is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is built into many policies. ## About Uplyme Uplyme is a small village in Devon, situated near the coast and approximately 25 miles from Exeter. Uplyme sits at an elevation of around 56 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby settlements like Holcombe and Ware. Uplyme is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its rural setting. Uplyme remains a quiet residential community with a population of around 720 people. ## Uplyme and Devon: AdBlue drains across the area Uplyme is a coastal village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Yawl and Ware among them, across the DT postcode area. Giving us your DT7 3 postcode finds you fastest of all. Stopped en route to King George's Field, or bang in the centre of Uplyme, your car stays where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Our van drains it where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near St Michael and St George or close to a border, ring and ask instead of assuming. ## Your scenario, in one line Still unrun? Leave the car that way and ring. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whichever it is, across Uplyme and Devon, on 0333 366 0103.