Wotton: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the engine has been started afterwards. Wherever the vehicle stands — Longlevens, Wotton — don't run a motor that hasn't run yet. Call 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. In Wotton, that is typically emptied and flushed where it stands. Already run? Pull over once safe, then switch everything off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Gloucestershire it happened.
On a Wotton forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only spot it as you're standing at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. It could be the Gulf, or perhaps the Asda, or a different forecourt in Wotton.
The point: of all places to notice, this is the best. No pump has drawn it in, so the AdBlue sits only inside that tank.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up only to free up the petrol pump. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking space, keep your receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away is cleared where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Wotton drive?
Several days had passed with the dash light on. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the drive. Driveways near London Road see it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Put your keys in the house tonight — otherwise a person might take it away at breakfast — and phone us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether in Wotton or Kingsholm. Late-night drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Wotton?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. Anywhere on Cheltenham Road or heading to Gloucester — under a mile away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue up. Past the fuel filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. It goes further with every mile covered and every restart.
Pull in safely — that is the first job — then turn everything off. On the M5, under 3 miles from Wotton, that means the next exit, not the services further on. It won't have cleared, and so there is no sense restarting to check. Roughly what distance did it gone? Tell us as you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've just driven this vehicle for days. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are around Gloucestershire, any motorist can slip up.
Put simply: an extra stage on top of the cases above, which turn on whether it has run. Many hire and company agreements need the owner's approval before repairs.
Settling it before we arrives is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stranded by Saint Catharine or outside Gloucester until someone answers, your vehicle remains switched off the whole time.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Wotton?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. The gates of St Peter's Catholic Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive over in Gloucester.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no damage to the engine. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is a different matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on the car will suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Take it that it was put in, and don't start the engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier result than a run one emptied.
The common ground in every Wotton AdBlue drain
No matter the case, one opening is used. We come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at The Englands Glory or a side street close to Saint Mary Magdalene, and ask three things: what got in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the work.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why a full flush, after this drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then comes the filter — cleaned, or swapped when needed — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. If your engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Last, we fire it up. Our check that it runs correctly on clean diesel comes before we go. Our technicians do the entire job where your car is, and lasting damage is very uncommon when it has been caught soon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Wotton
Wotton is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, sitting at an elevation of 27 metres near the river. Wotton is characterized by its predominantly flat housing stock and is situated close to nearby places such as Kingsholm and Elmbridge. Wotton is also near to Barton and is part of the wider Gloucester urban area. Wotton has a population of approximately 5458 residents.
AdBlue drains across Gloucestershire, Wotton included
As a residential suburb, Wotton has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Barton, Elmbridge — right through GL postcodes. Quickest of all: a GL1 3 postcode for your location.
No moving is required, whether parked in the centre of Wotton or in a lay-by heading to Kitchen Garden, and so leave it where it is. Draining is done right there. Tricky to explain? Close to Saint Margaret or a county line? Asking beats assuming, so phone.
The one-line version
If it has not run, phone then leave it off. Run already: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Wotton or anywhere across Gloucestershire.