Warndon: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of that hinges on a single detail: whether your engine has started after the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Not run yet? Then leave the car that way, whether your vehicle sits — Warndon or Tolladine. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and expect a thorough flush after a drain, carried out right where your car sits around Warndon. When the motor has run, stop safely straight away, then switch it off. It's a bigger job, though stage one doesn't change.
Further down: the situations our engineers meet, wherever around Worcestershire. Choose yours.
Warndon forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You're at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Tesco, Texaco or anywhere else around Warndon, the case is the same.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. Still inside your tank, and nothing pulled through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the pump wants clearing. Three things: a push into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from where you stand. Draining it there at the petrol pump is possible when it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Warndon
On your dash, a reminder had shown for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Just off Quisters is not less likely from anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the car has not moved since, it's close to the pump case. As it is reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base inside that tank and waits. One night parked alters none of that.
Next: the keys in the house, so no one takes your car anywhere at breakfast. After that, phone. We drain the car on your drive, whether that is around Warndon or out in Trotshill. The equipment runs quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Warndon?
A short way after topping up, the engine started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. Anywhere along Windles Row or heading towards Worcester — under 3 miles away.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It has been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Every restart, like each mile, carries it on.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so then switch off. Service stations farther along are too far: from the M5, under a mile out of Warndon, take the first junction. No trial restarts: clearing isn't something AdBlue will do. Tell us know the distance covered as you call.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had this car barely a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets are next to each other here — not like your own car, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Wherever you are across Worcestershire, any driver can be caught.
In short: an extra step on top of the cases above, and those turn on whether it's run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. If you're stranded in the car park at Worcester Shrub Hill, or by Lyppard Grange Community Centre, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Warndon
Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. A faint ammonia whiff hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's drive in Blackpole, or rushing outside The Lyppard Grange Primary School at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled round your filler does no damage to your motor. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Firing up your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't start it. Inspecting a tank that proves free of AdBlue beats emptying one after it's been run — so ring and describe to us what you saw.
The common ground in each Warndon AdBlue drain
The work begins the same way, whichever your situation. We come to your car, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at Lyppard Grange or a side street near Woodgreen Evangelical Church, and ask three things: what went in, about how much, and if the motor has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those answers decide the job too.
A thorough flush follows this drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it is essential, since deposits form and certain metals corrode, and none of it washes away unaided. Clean diesel is put in once the fuel filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is then checked. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers get there.
Firing it up comes at the end. Our check that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. Lasting damage is very rare when it's spotted soon, and the entire job is done where your car is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment is made on the day, and you receive what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance while we're en route: cover for misfuelling is included in plenty of policies.
About Warndon itself
Warndon is a suburban area located near Worcester in Worcestershire, sitting at an elevation of around 50 metres in the English West Midlands. Warndon is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Trotshill, Brickfields, and Ronkswood. Warndon has a population of approximately 5862 residents and is about 2 miles from the city of Worcester, making it a convenient residential location. Warndon is also within a reasonable distance from London, being around 99.8 miles away.
Warndon and Worcestershire: AdBlue drains across the area
Brickfields and Ronkswood get the same vans as Warndon, a residential suburb, along with other places throughout WR postcodes. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning WR4 0.
Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Tolladine Wood or in a car park in the middle of Warndon, it does not need to move. Our engineers drain the car where it sits. Ring and check instead of guessing when you're by St Joseph's Catholic Church, on a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Motor not started: ring, leaving it alone. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, within Warndon or wherever in Worcestershire.