AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Waltham Chase? Keep It Switched Off
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Then keep your engine off — and the ignition as well. AdBlue is urea dissolved in water. The trouble starts once it's pulled through the pump — it won't burn, and it won't blend with diesel. Caught before the motor has run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Waltham Chase. Before you do anything else, call 0333 366 0103.
Waltham Chase, AdBlue in the diesel tank: what to do right away
Things to do:
- So no one can switch the ignition on, take your keys away.
- Put the hazard lights on if you are anywhere close to moving traffic.
- So you can give us which liquid it was and about how much, keep your receipt or the empty bottle.
- Our van locates you quickest with a postcode starting SO32 2, or just the name of a street close by, and so call from the spot.
Never:
- Do not start your motor, even for a moment to shift the car.
- Plenty of diesels run their fuel pump the instant the ignition goes on, so keep the car off.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding extra fuel won't weaken it.
- Keep the vehicle where it is rather than driving it anywhere, even a short way along Bull Lane.
- No draining it yourself, either, at the roadside.
Get the people behind the counter to help you move your vehicle off the pumps if you're on a forecourt around Waltham Chase, whether it's the Sainsbury's or somewhere else. If you are on your own drive, leave the car precisely where it stands.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
AdBlue is made for the exhaust, not your engine. From a separate reservoir it goes straight to your exhaust, treating what the motor lets out. Nothing in it is supposed to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is made to handle it.
Fuel blends; AdBlue, after tipped in, won't. The behaviour is not at all like diesel's. It is heavier than diesel, and so it sinks and gathers at the bottom of your tank, which is where the pickup sucks fuel from. A vehicle topped up on a driveway in Shedfield yesterday evening and left unstarted is the simple one. Nothing has pulled the AdBlue up so far — though once the motor turns, that is what goes first, straight from the bottom of that tank.
It causes two kinds of damage from there. As its water goes, the urea left behind crystallises, and the crystals block filters and settle in fine passages. And it's corrosive to some of the metals a fuel system is made from, so it keeps working on the components it reaches for as long as it stays there. A vehicle left sitting around Waltham Chase with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue only in its tank isn't. Then there is the water: it offers no protection to the components that need it the most — the injection pump and each injector.
AdBlue in a diesel: why it is frequently worse than petrol
A problem of thin fuel is what you get after fuelling a diesel with petrol at the Shell. It mixes with your diesel, and while it's inside that tank it does no harm; the damage comes from running the motor on it.
AdBlue in a diesel is a different matter: not thin fuel, yet no fuel at all. It doesn't burn, so it cannot just be run through. Crystals and corrosion stay after the next tankful, and AdBlue splits again out of your diesel, and so thinning it won't help. That is why the flush counts so much, and turning your key "to see" costs more with AdBlue than nearly any other mistake — in Hillpound or the heart of Waltham Chase equally.
As with petrol, there's good news. Not started? Then the AdBlue waits only in your tank, the simplest bit of the entire system to clear, wherever your vehicle has stopped around Hampshire.
Waltham Chase: how AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank
No one means to do it. The AdBlue filler on plenty of motors sits right next to the diesel filler, occasionally under the same flap, and the two caps can look alike in poor light. A container bought while heading home and tipped in at home, rather than at the filling station, is the usual story.
A few familiar ways account for most cases. Midway through the drop-off, the dashboard warns, and outside St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School the refill is hurried. Someone pours the bottle in outside their house, just off Chase Farm Close, as the day ends. Else, in dim light outside The Black Dog, your car is refilled by a driver using that flap for the first time.
The least known vehicles get it most — hire cars, brand-new cars, company ones, and the spare vehicle of a home with both fuels. Anywhere around Hampshire, Waltham Chase as well, the slip does not change, and nor does the first step: keep it off.
Started the motor with AdBlue in your diesel tank in Waltham Chase?
Then that tank is no longer where the AdBlue is. The filter and pipework have had it sucked along, and any running time takes it on to the injection pump and every injector.
Perhaps returning from Waltham Chase Recreation Ground, or part way across Waltham Chase, your engine may run lumpy, smoke, drop power, light up the dash or stall. When safe, pull over then turn it off — with no restarting to see. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
If you were on the M27, under 5 miles from Waltham Chase, come off at the next junction and stop somewhere safe rather than pressing on.
How far it went matters. A few hundred yards across Waltham Chase to the car park by Waltham Chase Village Hall is a very different job from a run towards Southampton, under 10 miles away, with the AdBlue reaching further into the system with each mile. Tell us about how far it had come.
Wherever the vehicle came to a halt is where all of it gets done, even with more to flush after the motor has been run. Caught quickly, it very rarely leaves lasting damage.
What does an AdBlue drain on a diesel involve around Waltham Chase?
Anywhere it has stopped in Waltham Chase — a forecourt, a layby, a driveway, a road beside Waltham Chase Methodist Church — our van travels to the vehicle. Three answers shape the work, and so before anything else we ask which fluid went in, about the amount, and whether the engine has run.
Next, emptying that tank on the spot removes the contaminated diesel and the AdBlue together. A careful flush matters far more with AdBlue than with petrol, since residue will not wash away by itself. A test of your car follows at the end, after clean diesel goes in and the filter gets flushed or, where needed, replaced. About half an hour on site is typical for most jobs where the engine has not run. The pumping gear is explosion-proof, so a live filling station is no fault, and it's hushed enough for a residential street after dark.
Finally, the system is primed with clean diesel. Then we fire it up and you head off, whether from a parking space outside Botley or a drive around Waltham Chase. Our technicians confirm it runs properly on fresh diesel before we leave. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, so it never needs to be taken to a garage. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report later, which is what insurers ask for.
About Waltham Chase itself
Waltham Chase is a village in Hampshire, situated on the banks of the River Meon at an elevation of 41 metres. Waltham Chase lies near the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Glebe, Shirrell Heath, and Turkey Island. Waltham Chase has a population of approximately 1674 residents, who mostly reside in detached housing.
Waltham Chase and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Glebe, Shirrell Heath and Turkey Island are among the towns near Waltham Chase that the same vans reach, together with most of Hampshire beyond, over the SO postcode area. Guessing won't help close to a border or somewhere tricky to describe; ring and ask.
Waltham Chase is a 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 technicians drain it where it stands, and so it never needs to be shifted to us.
AdBlue in a diesel tank around Waltham Chase: the cost of fixing it
No flat figure would be honest, since every job differs. The cost changes first with how long, if at all, the engine has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that was put in. After that it depends on where the vehicle is and whether a technician can reach it safely, which is easier on an open drive than in a tight spot behind Swanmore Village Hall.
With that in mind, each enquiry from Waltham Chase opens with the identical trio — which fluid went in, what quantity, whether it ran — before a figure. Once those are answered, a range turns into a single fixed number.
Priced by phone before the engineer heads out, it is paid for that day — card or phone, nothing in advance. Look at your insurance while we're on the way: plenty carry misfuelling cover.
Waltham Chase: still beside the vehicle?
Leaving the vehicle alone is, then, the most useful move open to you. Keys out, engine off, ignition off. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, across Waltham Chase or anywhere within Hampshire, once you ring 0333 366 0103 saying it's AdBlue, roughly how big an amount, and whether the engine ran.