What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in West Chinnock
One thing matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your engine has been started afterwards. Not run so far? Then leave the car that way, whether your vehicle sits — West Chinnock or Townsend. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and expect a proper flush plus a drain, done just where the vehicle sits around West Chinnock. Where your engine has run, pull in safely straight away, then switch the car off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Match what happened to a situation from the list below, anywhere across Somerset you are.
AdBlue in a diesel on a West Chinnock forecourt
Just now, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the pump. Whether Texaco, Esso or somewhere else around West Chinnock, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Three things: a push into a bay with the attendants helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from where you stand. Stuck beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
At home in West Chinnock with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On your dash, a warning had shown all week. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Just off Lower Street is not less likely from anywhere.
In short: if the car hasn't moved since, it is nearly as good as spotting it at the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
Next: the keys in the house, so nobody takes your vehicle off first thing. After that, ring. Snails Hill or West Chinnock: wherever your drive is, that's where it gets cleared. Our pumping kit works quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in West Chinnock?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a short way after the top-up. Scotts Way, perhaps, or the route to Wells — a trip of under 25 miles.
The point: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the further the distance — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Stop safely — that is the first job — then turn everything off. On the M5, under 15 miles from West Chinnock, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Restarting it to check gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone, saying what distance the car went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just had this car a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the inlet is just next to the diesel cap — news to you. Any driver, anywhere around Somerset, could make the same.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Many hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Your move: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since settling it early saves time. Keep the vehicle switched off while the reply arrives, whether you are parked outside Crewkerne or close to The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around West Chinnock?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. What cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than it ought to, and ammonia lingers by the filler. It might have been on a friend's drive in Furringdons Cross, or rushing outside West Chinnock Church School on the school run.
Put simply: spillage round the filler leaves the engine no harm. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the car will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't crank it. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one after it has been run — so phone and describe to us what you noticed.
What each AdBlue drain around West Chinnock has in common
Each situation gets the same start to the job. Filling station, driveway, The Muddled Man's car park or a road beside St Margaret — our van comes to the car, and three answers come next: which fluid, what amount, and whether it ran. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our quote, and those answers shape the job too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it does not rinse out unaided; that is why the flush, after the drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Clean diesel goes in once the filter has been cleaned or changed, and your car is then tested. If the motor has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Finally, our engineers fire it up. Our check that it runs correctly on new diesel comes before our engineers go. We do the entire job where the car is, and lasting damage is very unusual when it has been spotted soon. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About West Chinnock and where it is
West Chinnock is a village in Somerset, situated near the River Parrett and surrounded by rolling hills. West Chinnock has a low elevation of around 34 metres, and its riverside setting makes it prone to flooding. West Chinnock is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, with many homes scattered throughout the village. West Chinnock is located near several nearby places, including Snails Hill and Middle Chinnock.
AdBlue drains in West Chinnock, and across Somerset too
Middle Chinnock and Chiselborough get the identical vans as West Chinnock, a village, plus other towns throughout TA postcodes. A postcode starting TA18 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Rushy Wood or in a car park in the middle of West Chinnock, it doesn't need to shift. Our van empties it in place. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to Church of St Peter & St Paul or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In one line: your situation
Not run yet: keep the car off and call. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles from there on 0333 366 0103, throughout Somerset and within West Chinnock — once you pull over, switch off then phone, if it has run.