Wormley: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether the engine has run since it got in. Anywhere the car is — Great Enton, Wormley — don't run a motor that has not been started yet. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and motor still off. Across Wormley, such a case is generally emptied and flushed where it stands. When your motor has run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then switch it off. It's a bigger job, yet stage one does not change.
Further down: the cases we see, wherever in Surrey. Pick yours.
Wormley forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It could be the Esso, or the Shell, or a different forecourt in Wormley.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. Still inside your tank, with no fuel drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the pump wants freeing. Three jobs: a push into a space with the staff assisting, the receipt saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. If it can't be shifted, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Wormley drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened on the drive. Houses just off Bridwell Close are caught out as often as everywhere else.
The upshot: zero miles since makes this nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so nobody moves your car in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it is drained, whether in Wormley or Sandhills. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Wormley?
A short way beyond topping up, your engine began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, lights on your dash. Perhaps it was on Franklin Court, perhaps on the way out towards Chichester, under 25 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has taken the AdBlue up. It has been through the fuel filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Each restart, like every mile, pushes it on.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then turn the engine off. Exit by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M3, under 15 miles from Wormley. It won't have cleared, so there is no point restarting to find out. Phone us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have just driven this car a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever across Surrey, could make the same.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts too — run or not — plus one further step. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under many rental and fleet contracts.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. Waiting for an answer in the car park outside Witley, or near Witley Village Hall (Chichester Hall)? Leave the car off throughout.
Wormley: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think so. Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia near your filler; a hazy memory of which cap. Look familiar? A rushed top-up by the gates of Witley CofE Controlled Infant School, or a call to a friend in Hambledon: either fit.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no harm to the engine. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Starting your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will pull it in.
Take it that it went in, and never turn your key. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats emptying one once it has been run — so phone then describe to us what you noticed.
Each AdBlue drain in Wormley shares these stages
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it is on a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside The White Hart Inn or a side street close to All Saints, Witley, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. Those answers determine the work, and you get the quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to certain metals in fuel systems, and so it does not wash out on its own; that is why the flush, after the drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel is put in once your filter is cleaned or changed, and your car is then checked. Where your engine has not been started, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most cases.
Starting the engine comes at the end. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers check it is running properly, and then we leave. If it is spotted quickly, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job takes place where it is. Paying is that day, never in advance. For your insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is built into plenty of policies.
About Wormley, briefly
Wormley is a small village in Surrey, situated inland at an elevation of around 113 metres. Wormley lies approximately 34 miles from London and is close to nearby places such as Sandhills, Culmer, and Brook. Wormley has a population of around 704 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Wormley remains a quiet residential community with a rural setting.
AdBlue drains about Wormley and across Surrey
Over GU postcodes, the teams serving Wormley — a rural village — work surrounding towns as well, Culmer and Brook among them. Your location is quickest from a postcode that starts GU8 5.
Parked heading to Ten Acre Wood, or bang in the centre of Wormley, the vehicle remains where it is — there is no need to move it anywhere. We drain the vehicle where it sits. Phone and check instead of guessing if you are by Hambledon Village Hall, near a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Keep the car that way and phone. Started already? Pull over, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, across Wormley and Surrey, on 0333 366 0103.