Wiveliscombe: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
If AdBlue has got into your diesel tank, keep the engine off and leave your ignition off. Water with urea mixed in it: that's AdBlue. The trouble starts once it is sucked through the pump — it won't burn, and it will not combine with diesel. In Wiveliscombe, AdBlue in a diesel tank found before your motor runs usually comes down to a drain and a thorough flush, just where the vehicle is. Before you do anything else, call 0333 366 0103.
Wiveliscombe, AdBlue in the diesel tank: what to do straight away
Do these:
- Keys out — that way no one can power anything on.
- Put your hazards on if you're at all close to moving traffic.
- The empty bottle or the receipt tells us the product and the amount, so do not throw it away.
- Give us a postcode starting TA4 2, or whatever street is closest, and our van reaches you directly — so ring from wherever you stand.
Not to do:
- Not even briefly, and not to shift the vehicle: the engine remains off.
- The ignition remains off: on lots of diesels, turning it on is enough to run your fuel pump.
- AdBlue does not mix in diesel — it separates out — so adding more fuel will not weaken it.
- Don't drive the vehicle anywhere, not even a short distance down The Square.
- Emptying your tank on your own beside the road isn't worth trying.
Rolling your car away from the pumps is a job for staff to help with, wherever Wiveliscombe forecourt you're on, the the nearest petrol station included. Stopped on your own drive? Then it stays just as it is.
What does AdBlue do in a diesel tank?
AdBlue is made for your exhaust, not the motor. Stored in a dedicated tank, it's squirted into the exhaust stream to clean the gases. A fuel pump isn't made to cope with it, and AdBlue was never intended to go through one.
Tipped in with your diesel, it keeps separate instead of mixing — quite unlike fuel. The pickup sucks fuel from the deepest part of your tank, and that's exactly where AdBlue settles: as it is heavier than diesel, it sinks. The first thing your fuel system pulls through, once it runs, is the AdBlue. So a vehicle that had AdBlue poured in on a drive in Langley Marsh last night, and hasn't been started since, is still the easy case: the AdBlue is lying at the bottom of the tank, and nothing has sucked it in.
Once it is drawn in, the damage takes two forms. As its water goes, the urea left behind crystallises, and the crystals block filters and settle in fine passages. And it's corrosive to some of the metals a fuel system is made from, so it keeps running on the parts it hits for as long as it stays there. Overnight, a vehicle parked around Wiveliscombe with AdBlue through its pipework gets worse; where it's only in that tank, nothing changes. Then there is the water: it brings no lubrication to the components that need it the most — the injection pump and every injector.
Petrol or AdBlue in a diesel: why AdBlue is regularly worse
Put petrol in a diesel at the another forecourt nearby and you have a problem of thin fuel. Mixed into your diesel and left still, it is no threat at that stage; running the motor is the harm.
The trouble with AdBlue in a diesel is a totally wrong substance. It can't simply be run through, because it doesn't burn. Crystals and corrosion remain through the following tankful, and AdBlue splits again out of your diesel, and so watering it can't work. That is why the flush counts so much, and turning your key "to see" does more harm here than almost any other mistake — in Whitefield or the heart of Wiveliscombe equally.
As with petrol, there is good news. Wherever around Somerset your vehicle has come to rest, an unstarted motor leaves the AdBlue yet in the tank: the simplest bit of a fuel system to empty.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank around Wiveliscombe?
Many motors place the AdBlue filler beside the diesel cap, occasionally behind one flap, and in dim light the two may look the same. Nobody intends it. It mostly occurs outside the house, from a container grabbed en route home, rather than at the forecourt.
Mostly, it occurs in one of a couple of familiar ways. Rushing, outside Wiveliscombe Primary School, after a warning lamp flashed on during the school run, a parent refills the vehicle. After work, a bottle is tipped in on a driveway near North Street. Otherwise, after dark outside The Bear Inn, your car gets topped up by a driver using that flap the first time.
It happens most in the motors motorists know least: a hire car, a new car, a company car, or the second car of a household with one diesel and one petrol. Same slip, an identical first step — leave it switched off — anywhere you happen to be in Wiveliscombe or the rest of Somerset.
Started the motor with AdBlue in the diesel tank around Wiveliscombe?
Then the AdBlue has left that tank. With any running, it goes on to the injection pump and each injector, after passing via the fuel filter and lines.
You may notice the engine running unevenly, smoking, losing power, showing warning lights or cutting out, possibly on the way back from Longlands Copse or halfway across Wiveliscombe. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and don't restart the vehicle to check. With each start, more of it is pulled through.
On the M5, under 10 miles from Wiveliscombe, the first junction is where to exit, and somewhere sensible is where to park — not carrying on.
Hopping across Wiveliscombe to the car park by Wiveliscombe Area Community Office is one thing; driving towards Exeter, under 25 miles away, is something else, since every mile carries the AdBlue deeper in. So mileage matters. About how far it had come is worth telling us.
There is more to rinse out once your engine has run, and we do all of it where your car has come to a stop. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's noticed quickly.
Draining AdBlue in a diesel around Wiveliscombe: what it takes
Anywhere it has stopped in Wiveliscombe — a forecourt, a lay-by, a driveway, a road by Wiveliscombe Town Hall — our van travels to your vehicle. What got in, about the quantity, and whether the motor has turned over: our technicians ask first, since those shape the work.
On the spot, your tank is then drained, and both the polluted diesel and the urea leave as one. A full flush counts much more with AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains will not clear away by itself. Clean diesel goes in after the filter is cleaned — or replaced, if it needs to be — and after that your car is tested. Most of these jobs are a half-hour visit once we arrive, if your motor hasn't run. Our equipment is explosion-proof, and so a busy forecourt is no fault, and it is quiet enough for a residential street late at night.
Bleeding the system with new diesel comes at the end. At that point we start the car and you head off, whether from a parking space by Tiverton Parkway or a driveway around Wiveliscombe. It's tested on fresh diesel to make sure it runs correctly before we leave. We do it all wherever your car has ended up, and it never has to go to a workshop. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report later, which is what insurers ask for.
About Wiveliscombe, briefly
Wiveliscombe is a small town in inland Somerset, situated at an elevation of 128 metres, with a population of around 2715 people. Wiveliscombe lies near the villages of Hartswell, Langley, and Ford, and is approximately 24 miles from Exeter. Wiveliscombe has a mix of housing types, but detached homes are particularly prevalent. Wiveliscombe is also relatively distant from London, at around 141 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Wiveliscombe and Somerset
Throughout the TA postcode area, the vans answering AdBlue jobs in Wiveliscombe serve most of Somerset as well, Hartswell, Langley and Ford included. Phone and check instead of guessing when you're by a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Wiveliscombe is a town, and a mobile drain suits it: whether the car is on a home drive, a residential street, a car park or a forecourt, our technicians drain it where it stands, and so it never needs to be shifted to us.
Wiveliscombe: what AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to fix
There is no honest single price, because the jobs are not the same. Three things shift the price: whether the motor has run and for how long, how much AdBlue was put in, and where the car is. That last one rests on whether our van can get to it safely, and an open drive is simpler than a tight spot behind Wiveliscombe Library.
Ahead of any quote, not afterwards, each enquiry from Wiveliscombe begins with three checks: the liquid, the quantity, and if the engine ran. The replies turn a range into a straight quote.
Quoted on the call before the van sets out, the job is paid for on the day — card or phone, no deposit. Look at your policy whilst we're on the way: many carry misfuelling cover.
Wiveliscombe: still alongside the vehicle?
Then, the most helpful thing to do with the vehicle is to not touch it. Ignition off, engine off, keys out. Call 0333 366 0103 and tell us it's AdBlue, roughly how much, and if it's run. Petrol in Diesel takes it from there, in Wiveliscombe or anywhere in Somerset.