AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Woolton Hill: What Now?
One fact matters above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has run since. Not started so far? Then keep it that way, wherever the car sits — Woolton Hill or East End. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, done right where the car sits in Woolton Hill. When the engine has run, pull in safely first, then turn the car off. A bigger job, yes, but the same first move.
Compare your case to a situation from the ones below, wherever across Hampshire you happen to be.
On a Woolton Hill forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just at this point, bottle still in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Maybe you're at the Shell, possibly at the Sainsbury's, possibly somewhere else around Woolton Hill.
Put simply: no better spot exists to discover it. Still inside your tank, and no fuel drawn through: that's where the AdBlue is.
Your move: keep out of the car, however much the queue wants clearing. Have the attendants to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then phone us right there. Draining it there at the pump is fine if it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
At home around Woolton Hill with AdBlue in your diesel tank
On the dash, a reminder had been lit for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Right off Church Road is no different from anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle has not moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of your tank and stays there, however long it waits.
Next: prevent any early-morning move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, be it around Woolton Hill or Broad Layings. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Woolton Hill?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two beyond the top-up. Maybe it was on Church Lane, possibly on the way out towards Winchester, under 25 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a longer run, once the filter and pipework have had it. More driving, more restarts: deeper it travels.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. Woolton Hill sits under 10 miles from the M4; there, pull off at the next junction rather than pushing on to the services. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
It's a motor you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or somewhere else. On this one, the cap is right by the diesel inlet — a surprise to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Hampshire.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Any work on your car often requires the owner's approval under hire or company terms.
Do this: hire firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us next, because settling it beforehand saves time. Waiting for an answer in the car park at Newbury, or beside Woolton Hill Church Hall? Keep the car off meanwhile.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Woolton Hill?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think it did. A slight ammonia whiff hangs around your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is a blur. A hurried top-up by the gates of St Thomas' Church of England Infant School, Woolton Hill, or a call to a friend in Ball Hill: either fits.
Meaning? Spills around the filler don't touch your motor at all. If it's inside the diesel tank, though, it does. Turning on your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will draw it in.
Assume it was put in, and don't turn your engine. 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.
The common ground in each Woolton Hill AdBlue drain
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things are asked once we arrive — on a filling station, a driveway, a street by St. Thomas' or the car park outside The Rampant Cat: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has run. Your price is given over the phone, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not rinse out unaided; that's why the flush, after this drain, counts far more with AdBlue than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in after the filter is flushed or changed, and the car is then tested. Where your engine has not been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
The last step is starting it. Before our technicians go, it's checked to make sure it runs properly on clean diesel. Lasting damage is very rare if it's caught quickly, and the entire job is done where your car is. Paying comes that day, never upfront. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Woolton Hill, briefly
Woolton Hill is a small village in Hampshire, situated inland at an elevation of 131 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Woolton Hill lies near the villages of Broad Layings, Highclere, and Penwood, and is approximately 20 miles from the city of Winchester. Woolton Hill is also within commuting distance of London, being around 55 miles from the capital. Woolton Hill has a population of around 976 residents.
Woolton Hill and Hampshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a rural village, Woolton Hill has the same vans as the surrounding places — Penwood, Highclere — all the way through RG postcodes. Telling us your RG20 9 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Stopped en route to Stafford Copse, or bang in the centre of Woolton Hill, the vehicle stays put — there is no need to move it anywhere. Where it sits, that's where it is drained. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're by Hollington House, near a border, or somewhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Motor not started: phone, and leave it switched off. Started already? Stop, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whatever case, in Woolton Hill and Hampshire, on 0333 366 0103.