AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Williton: What Now?
Everything turns on one fact: whether the motor has started after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Wherever your car stands — St Decumans, Williton — never start a motor that hasn't been started yet. Leave the engine and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103; it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Williton. Already run? Pull over once safe, then turn it off. It is a bigger job, though stage one doesn't change.
Anywhere in Somerset it took place, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the pump in Williton: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: standing by the pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the cap you took off was not the right one. Be it Esso, Q8 or anywhere else around Williton, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Still in the tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Do this: keep out of the car, however much the pump wants clearing. A few things: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the bottle kept, and a call to us from where you stand. If it cannot be shifted, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Williton
Days had passed with the dash light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd used at the driveway. Homes just off Killick Way get hit as much as anywhere else.
The point: zero miles since makes this almost equal to spotting it at the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. Sampford Brett or Williton: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets emptied. Night-time clears beside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road in Williton with AdBlue in a diesel
Topped up, pulled away, and before long your engine was running unevenly, smoking, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Maybe it was on North Street, perhaps on the way out towards Cardiff, under 25 miles away.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through the system. It has been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the injectors. It travels deeper with each extra mile driven and every restart.
Next: pick a safe place, pull in, then switch your motor off. On the M5, under 15 miles from Williton, that means the next junction, not the services further on. No test restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Call us and say how far you went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You have only driven the car a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so no one told you the AdBlue inlet sits right next to the diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere across Somerset.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts too — run or not — and one extra stage. The owner frequently has to approve any work, under plenty of rental and company agreements.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before we get there than after. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at the nearest station, or beside Williton Library? Leave the engine off throughout.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, around Williton
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Peter's Church of England First School, or on a friend's drive in Five Bells.
In short: a spill near your filler does your engine unharmed. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Firing up the vehicle will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will draw it in.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't start it. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Williton has in common
The work begins the same way, whatever the situation. Our engineers come to the car, whether it is at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Williton Club or a side street near St Peter, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and if your motor has been run. Answers shape the work; the quote follows on the call while no one has left yet.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Next is your filter — cleaned, or swapped where necessary — then fresh diesel, and a test of your vehicle. If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
We fire it up last. Before we leave, it's tested to make sure it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it's caught soon, lasting damage is very rare. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you receive what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Williton and where it is
Williton is a coastal village in Somerset, situated near the Bristol Channel at an elevation of 32 metres. Williton lies within a short distance of several nearby villages, including Sampford Brett and Capton. Williton has a population of approximately 1297 residents, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type in the area. Williton is located near the border with Wales, with the city of Cardiff being around 22.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Somerset, Williton included
Over TA postcodes, the vans serving Williton — a coastal village — work nearby towns too, Capton and Stream among them. Fastest of all: a TA4 4 postcode for your location.
Central Williton or a lay-by near Outmoor Wood: either way it sits, the car doesn't need to shift at all for us. We drain it where it sits. Assuming won't help beside St George, close to a border or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and ask.
The one-line version
If it has not started, phone and keep it off. Whichever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across Somerset and within Williton — once you stop, switch off then phone, if it's run.