Vernham Dean: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has been started since. Over in Vernham Street or right around Vernham Dean, an unrun motor should remain that way. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush after a drain, done just where the vehicle sits around Vernham Dean. Pull over the moment you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. It's a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Hampshire it happened.
On a Vernham Dean forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, nozzle yet in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Anywhere around Vernham Dean, then — Dean Garage, another forecourt nearby, or anywhere else nearby.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. Just the tank has AdBlue; no part past it has drawn it in.
Next: avoid the temptation to fire it up just to free up the petrol pump. Ring us from the forecourt after the vehicle is in a space — the attendants will help push it — and keep the receipt. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible if it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
Vernham Dean, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. A bottle from the garage, emptied in at the drive — and it's just by the bin that the cap got your eye. Houses just off Bulpits Hill get hit as much as anywhere else.
Meaning? As long as your vehicle has not been driven since, it is close to the forecourt case. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the base of your tank and stays put, however long it waits.
Next: the keys in the house, so nobody takes your vehicle anywhere first thing. After that, phone. Your drive is where it gets drained, be it around Vernham Dean or Vernham Bank. Late-night drains outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
On the road in Vernham Dean with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, down on power, or lighting up the dash. Haydown Leas, say, or the way towards Winchester — a run of under 25 miles.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue through already. It has been through the filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. Every restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the first job — then turn everything off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M4, under 10 miles from Vernham Dean. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone, saying what distance your car was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've just driven the car for days. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Hampshire.
Put simply: one extra stage on top of the cases above, which depend on if it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the vehicle.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us second, because settling it early saves time. Stranded by Vernham Dean Millennium Hall or at Bedwyn until someone replies, your vehicle stays switched off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Vernham Dean?
Sometimes the fair answer is "I think so". Which cap came off, you cannot recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and ammonia hangs by the filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Vernham Dean Gillum's Church of England Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Little Down.
Meaning? Drips around the inlet never touch your engine at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the key, and doing so would draw in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
Your move: behave as though it got in, and don't start the motor. Checking a tank that turns out clean beats emptying one after it has been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
The common ground in each Vernham Dean AdBlue drain
Each situation has the same start to the work. Three questions are asked when we arrive — at a forecourt, a drive, a street by St Mary the Virgin or the car park at The George Inn: the liquid, the quantity, and whether the motor has run. Those replies determine this work, and you get our price on the phone, before anyone heads out.
Then your tank is drained and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which matters 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. Clean diesel is put in after your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is finally checked. If the motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Firing it up comes last. Before our engineers leave, it is tested to be sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel. Our engineers do the whole job where the vehicle is, and permanent damage is very rare when it has been spotted soon. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Vernham Dean itself
Vernham Dean is a small village in north Hampshire, situated in a rural area at an elevation of around 138 metres. Vernham Dean lies near the villages of Vernham Bank and Vernham Row, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. Vernham Dean is located approximately 19 miles from Winchester and 61 miles from London, making it a relatively secluded community. Vernham Dean remains a quiet, residential village with a small population of around 541 people.
AdBlue drains across Hampshire, Vernham Dean included
As a rural village, Vernham Dean shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Woodside, Vernham Row — all the way across SP postcodes. The location comes clearest from a postcode that starts SP11 0.
Stopped en route to Vernham Dean Recreation Ground, or right in the heart of Vernham Dean, the car remains where it is — there's no need to shift it anywhere. Draining happens right there. Tricky to explain? Close to Vernham Manor or a county line? Checking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Your situation, in one line
Motor never started: phone, and leave it switched off. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, across Hampshire and in Vernham Dean — once you pull over, turn off then ring, if it has run.