AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Abertysswg? Keep It Switched Off
Motor off, ignition off: that's where you start if AdBlue has got into the diesel tank. Water with urea mixed in it: that's AdBlue. Being water-based, it won't burn and never combines with diesel; damage only comes when the pump begins pulling it. If the motor hasn't run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually drained and thoroughly rinsed where your car stands in Abertysswg. Nothing comes before calling 0333 366 0103.
Abertysswg, AdBlue in your diesel tank: what to do right away
Things to do:
- Keys out — that way no one can power anything on.
- Hazards on, if moving traffic is at all close.
- Which fluid, and about how much quantity? Save the bottle or the receipt, and our technicians will see.
- Give us a postcode starting NP22 5, or whatever street lies closest, and the van finds you straight — so ring wherever you are.
Never:
- Not even for a second, and not to roll your vehicle: the engine stays off.
- Turning your key to ignition by itself starts the pump going on plenty of diesels. Skip it.
- No extra fuel on top. The AdBlue will not blend, and so it's pointless.
- Any driving at all is best avoided, even a short way up Trem Y Mynydd / Walter Street.
- No emptying it yourself, either, at the roadside.
At a forecourt around Abertysswg, whether it is the Gulf or another one, ask the staff to help you roll the car clear of the petrol pump. If you are on your own drive, leave it just where it stands.
AdBlue in a diesel tank, and what it does there
Not the engine but the exhaust is where AdBlue belongs. It goes into its own tank and is sprayed into the exhaust gas to fresh it. No part inside an injection pump is designed for this fluid — and none of it was meant to travel that way.
Tipped in with the diesel, it keeps separate rather than blending — entirely different from fuel. The intake takes fuel from the lowest part of that tank, and that is precisely where AdBlue ends up: being denser than diesel, it sinks. Easiest of all: one that had AdBlue in Bedwellty Pits overnight and hasn't been started since. The AdBlue waits at the foot of that tank, undrawn — though it will be first through if the motor starts, before any diesel at all.
From there it does two kinds of damage. What remains when the water evaporates is urea, which turns into crystals: they settle in tiny passages and block filters. On top of that, it attacks some metals in the fuel system, and keeps going until it is flushed out. If the AdBlue has reached the lines, waiting overnight around Abertysswg makes things worse. Inside the tank alone, time does nothing. The water in it does damage of its own: your high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors depend on diesel to lubricate them, and water gives them nothing.
Why is AdBlue in a diesel frequently the bigger problem?
Petrol put into a diesel on Texaco's forecourt leaves the fuel thin — that's the main issue. It mixes with your diesel, and whilst it is in your tank it does no damage; the damage comes from running your engine on it.
The trouble with AdBlue in a diesel is a totally unsuitable liquid. It can't just be run through, since it does not burn. It doesn't stay mixed, and so it cannot be weakened. And crystals and corrosion don't wash out with the next tank of fuel. That is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol, and why starting your engine "to see" costs more here than nearly anywhere else, whether the car is in Troearhiwgwair or the middle of Abertysswg.
As with petrol, there is good news. If the motor hasn't run, the AdBlue is still in that tank, and that tank is the easiest part of a fuel system to clear, wherever around Caerphilly your car is sitting.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Abertysswg: how it ends up there
It is not on purpose. Plenty of vehicles have the AdBlue cap alongside the diesel one, now and then behind one flap, and mixing them up is simple after dark. It mostly takes place at home, from a bottle bought on the journey home, rather than at the filling station.
A few familiar ways account for the majority of them. Rushing, outside the local primary school, after a warning light came on during the school run, someone tops up the car. In the evening, a bottle goes in on a driveway near Station Road. Or a driver new to that flap tops up your vehicle in dim light, stopped in the car park by Mountain Ash Inn.
It comes up the most in a hire car, a brand-new car, a fleet vehicle, or the other motor in a home with one of each fuels — the cars drivers use the least. An identical slip, an identical first step — keep it off — wherever you are around Abertysswg or the rest of Caerphilly.
Abertysswg: started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank?
In that case, the AdBlue is no longer in that tank. It's been drawn through the fuel filter and your lines, and if your engine ran for any time, it has reached the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors.
Rough running, smoke, lost power, dashboard warnings or cutting out: each might show up, maybe part way across Abertysswg or returning from Coed Cefn-rhychdir. Stop when it is safe. Switch off. Leave it off instead of restarting it to check. More of that is pulled through with each start.
If you were on the M4, under 15 miles from Abertysswg, come off at the next junction and stop somewhere safe instead of pressing on.
Mileage counts: every mile pushes the AdBlue further into your system, so heading towards Newport, under 25 miles away, makes a much larger job than hopping across Abertysswg to the car park by Abertysswg Community Centre. Roughly how far had it come? Tell us.
Once the engine has been run, the flush takes in more, and all of it is done where the vehicle has come to a stop. Very rarely does it leave permanent damage if it is noticed soon.
Abertysswg: how AdBlue is emptied from a diesel
We come to your car, wherever it has stopped in Abertysswg: a side street close to St Paul's Church, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. Before anything else our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and if your engine has been run, since those replies determine the work.
Right there, your tank is then drained, and all of the contaminated diesel and the urea come out as one. A careful flush matters far more with AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains will not wash out by itself. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. The majority of these jobs are a half-hour job once our engineers turn up, provided your engine has not run. Low-noise enough to use outside a house at night, and safe on a busy forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
Finally, your system is bled with fresh diesel. At that point our technicians start the car and you head off, whether from a parking bay by Pontlottyn or a drive in Abertysswg. Before we go, our technicians check it's running correctly with new diesel in. Our technicians do it all wherever your car has ended up, and it never needs to be taken to a garage. Afterwards, you are given paperwork for your insurer: a VAT invoice plus a report from the engineer.
About Abertysswg and where it is
Abertysswg is a village in Caerphilly, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of 257 metres. Abertysswg lies near the communities of Troedrhiwfuwch, Pontlottyn, and Phillips Town, and is approximately 15.5 miles from Newport. Abertysswg has a population of around 1216 people, predominantly living in terraced housing.
AdBlue drains around Abertysswg and across Caerphilly
Throughout the NP postcode area, the teams answering AdBlue jobs in Abertysswg serve much of Caerphilly as well, Troedrhiwfuwch, Pontlottyn and Phillips Town among them. Phone and check instead of guessing if you're close to a county line, or anywhere awkward to explain.
A van that comes to you fits Abertysswg, a village: you have no need to take the vehicle to us, because our technicians empty it on the spot, in a driveway, a side street, a parking area or a forecourt.
AdBlue in a diesel tank in Abertysswg: the cost of fixing it
Not one flat price would be honest, since each job is different. The price changes first with how long, if at all, the motor has been running, and next with the amount of AdBlue that was put in. After that it depends on where your car is and whether a technician can reach it safely, which is easier on an open driveway than in a tight gap behind Elim Community Church.
For that reason, every call from Abertysswg opens by asking the identical trio — which fluid went in, how much, whether the engine ran — ahead of a figure. Those answers shrink a range right down to one figure.
Before anyone sets off, you are told our quote on the phone. And payment is on the day, card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
Abertysswg: still beside your car?
Then the most helpful thing you can do is nothing to the vehicle. Ignition off, motor off, keys out. Phone 0333 366 0103 and tell us it is AdBlue, roughly how much, and if it's run. Petrol in Diesel takes it from there, in Abertysswg or anywhere in Caerphilly.