Withycombe Raleigh: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact matters above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has been started afterwards. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether your car is around Withycombe Raleigh itself or out in Exmouth. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where the car sits around Withycombe Raleigh. Stop the moment it is safe and switch off, if it has already run. It's a larger job, though stage one doesn't change.
Below: the situations our technicians see, anywhere around Devon. Choose yours.
Withycombe Raleigh forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
Just at this point, nozzle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. It might be the Tesco, or the Shell, or a different station around Withycombe Raleigh.
Put simply: no better place exists to discover it. Just the tank has AdBlue; no part past it has drawn it in.
Do this: keep out of the car, even if the queue wants clearing. Ask the attendants to help you roll the vehicle into a parking bay, keep the till receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. Can't move the car beside the pump? Our explosion-proof equipment keeps a busy forecourt safe, and so we can drain the vehicle in place.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Withycombe Raleigh drive?
For days the dashboard had been warning you. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in on the driveway — and it was just by the bin that the cap got your eye. Drives near Forton Road see it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Your move: keys in the house, so no one drives the vehicle anywhere first thing. Then, ring. Your driveway is where it is drained, whether in Withycombe Raleigh or Hulham. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Withycombe Raleigh: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way after filling up, your engine started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Anywhere along Broad Park Road or else heading towards Exeter — under 10 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the more the mileage — on into the injection pump and every injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that's the first job — then switch everything off. Leave by the next junction — not the services further along — if you are on the M5, under 10 miles from Withycombe Raleigh. Starting it again to test gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone, and say how far the car went.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
Seven days ago, the car was unknown to you. On your own car, AdBlue is absent or elsewhere. On this one, the inlet is just by the diesel inlet — news to you. Throughout Devon, no one is safe from it.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies here — run or not — and one extra step. The owner frequently has to approve any work, under plenty of rental and company agreements.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our engineers get there than after. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at Exmouth, or beside Palmer House Community Centre? Leave your engine off meanwhile.
Withycombe Raleigh: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
At times, "I think so" is the most anyone can truthfully say. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe on a friend's driveway in The Point, or rushing outside Marpool Primary School at the school run.
The upshot: the motor isn't harmed by a little AdBlue spilled around the filler. Once it is inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Firing up the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would suck it in.
Take it that it got in, and don't start the engine. Describe what you saw on the phone. A clean tank checked is a better outcome than a run one emptied.
Withycombe Raleigh: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Each case has the same start to the work. Forecourt, drive, Country House Inn's car park or a street by Burnside Community Centre — the van reaches the vehicle, and three questions come next: which liquid, which quantity, and whether it ran. The price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies set the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out unaided; that's why the flush, after the drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. If your engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is firing it up. We check it runs correctly on new diesel before we leave. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's noticed quickly, permanent damage is very unusual. Payment comes that day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling is included in many policies.
About Withycombe Raleigh
Withycombe Raleigh is a suburban area in Devon, situated near the coast and approximately 8.7 miles from Exeter. Withycombe Raleigh sits at an elevation of 26 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Withycombe Raleigh is characterised by its semi-detached housing and is located near other nearby places such as Hulham, Brixington, and Littleham.
AdBlue drains round Withycombe Raleigh and across Devon
Withycombe Raleigh is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Brixington and Littleham among them, across the EX postcode area. Your location is clearest from a postcode beginning EX8 4.
Stopped heading to St Johns Playing Field, or right in the heart of Withycombe Raleigh, the car stays where it is — there is no need to shift it at all. Where it stands, that's where it is emptied. Assuming doesn't help beside Withycombe Methodist Church, close to a county line or somewhere hard to pin down; ring and ask.
The one-line version
If it hasn't run, ring and leave it off. Started already? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, across Withycombe Raleigh and Devon, on 0333 366 0103.