--- title: What Now? AdBlue in a Diesel Tank West Wick canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/west-wick-somerset/ location: West Wick county: Somerset latitude: 51.352240 longitude: -2.901650 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-09 --- # West Wick: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation One fact counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether the motor has run since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is around West Wick itself or out in Locking Parklands. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush after a drain, carried out just where your vehicle stands in West Wick. When the motor has been run, pull in safely first, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same. Wherever across Somerset it took place, one of the cases below fits yours. ## At the petrol pump around West Wick: AdBlue in a diesel Imagine it: standing by the pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the filler you opened wasn't the correct one. Perhaps you're at the Morrisons, perhaps at the Sainsbury's, possibly somewhere else in West Wick. The point: of every spot to notice, the forecourt is the best. Nothing has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue sits only inside the tank. Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the queue needs freeing. Ask the staff to help you roll your car into a parking space, keep the till receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Stuck beside the pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt safe, so it can be drained in place. ## At home around West Wick with AdBlue in the diesel tank On your dash, a reminder had been lit for days. A bottle from the shop, emptied in at the drive — and it was only by the recycling that the cap caught a second look. Driveways close to Wolvershill Road see it as much as anywhere. The point: no miles since leaves this nearly equal to finding it at the petrol pump. As it is unable to mix, AdBlue drops to the base in your tank and waits. One night parked changes none of that. Put your keys in the house overnight — or someone may drive it away at breakfast — then call us. Your drive is where it is drained, whether around West Wick or Locking Castle. The pumping kit runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night. ## Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around West Wick? Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. It might have been heading to Bristol, under 15 miles away, or simply along Kent Avenue. Put simply: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. The injection pump and each injector see it too on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and lines have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further. Next: find a sensible spot, stop, then turn the motor off. On the M5, under a mile from West Wick, that means the next exit, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, and so there's no sense restarting to check. Let us know the mileage covered when you call. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car It's a car you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Across Somerset, nobody is safe from it. Meaning? Whichever applies above applies here — run or unrun — plus one extra step. The owner often needs to sign off the work, under many hire and company agreements. Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager first, us second, since sorting it beforehand saves time. Stuck by Travelling Light or outside Worle till someone replies, your car remains switched off the whole time. ## Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, West Wick? Now and then, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; but the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Herons' Moor Academy, or on a friend's drive in Woolvershill Batch. The upshot: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the outside. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in the tank. Your move: behave as though it did, and don't start the engine. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run. ## The common ground in each West Wick AdBlue drain The work begins the same way, whatever your case. Our engineers come to your car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside The Bucket & Spade or a side street near Living Sculpture, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and if your motor has run. Answers set the job; the quote comes on the call while nobody has set off yet. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it won't wash out unaided; that's why the flush, after the drain, counts much more here than with petrol. 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 on site covers most jobs. The final step is starting the car. Our test that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before our technicians head off. Long-term damage is very rare when it's caught soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. Nothing is taken upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes built into plenty of policies. ## About West Wick West Wick is a small coastal village in Somerset, situated near the Bristol Channel and close to the nearby settlements of Locking Castle and Way Wick. West Wick has a low elevation of around 6 metres above sea level and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock. West Wick is located near the city of Bristol, which is approximately 14.7 miles away, and is also within commuting distance of other nearby places such as St Georges. ## AdBlue drains across Somerset, West Wick included Over BS postcodes, the vans covering West Wick — a coastal village — reach surrounding towns as well, Way Wick and St Georges among them. Giving us your BS24 7 postcode finds you quickest of all. Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Living Sculpture Park or in a car park in the middle of West Wick, it does not need to shift. Our technicians drain the vehicle where it sits. Guessing won't help near Locking Castle Church, close to a county line or anywhere hard to describe; phone and check. ## The one-line version Where it has not started, ring and leave it that way. Whichever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Somerset and within West Wick — once you pull over, switch off and ring, if it's run.