AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Baglan: What Now?
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your motor has been started afterwards. Over in Warren Hill or here in Baglan, an unrun engine should remain unrun. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, done right where the car stands around Baglan. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. It is a larger job, yet step one does not change.
Wherever across Neath Port Talbot it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
At the petrol pump in Baglan: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it as you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. It might be the Texaco, or the Morrisons, or another station in Baglan.
Put simply: there is no better place to be to discover it. No pump has drawn it through, and so the AdBlue sits just in your tank.
Freeing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Ask the attendants to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Baglan
For days the dash had been warning you. Bought a container, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, after the fact. It occurs on driveways just off Maes Rhedyn as regularly as anywhere.
In short: if the car hasn't moved since, it is nearly equal to spotting it at the 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 no one moves your car in the morning. Then call. Briton Ferry or Baglan: wherever your driveway sits, that is where it is emptied. Late-night empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road in Baglan with AdBlue in a diesel
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way beyond the top-up. Lodge Drive, perhaps, or the way to Swansea — a trip of under 10 miles.
What it means: your fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Every restart, like each mile, pushes it on.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the first step — then turn everything off. Baglan lies under a mile from the M4; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pushing on for the services. No test restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue will do. Ring us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
Seven days ago, the car was unknown to you. The AdBlue filler is right beside the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be across Neath Port Talbot, any motorist can slip up.
Meaning? Whichever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one further step. The owner frequently has to sign off the work, under plenty of rental and fleet agreements.
Next: ring the hire company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Leave it switched off as the reply comes, whether you're parked outside the nearest station or close to Baglan Library.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Baglan?
Now and then, "I think so" is the most you can truthfully say. Which cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia hangs by the filler. The gates of the local primary school in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's drive over in Ynysmaerdy.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never touch the engine at all. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Turning on the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will draw it in.
Assume it got in, and never turn the key. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue is better than emptying one once it has been run — so phone and tell us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain in Baglan has in common
The work begins the same way, whatever your case. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside Baglan Social Club or a side street close to Evans Bevan Playing Field, and ask three things: what was put in, about how much, and whether the motor has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those answers decide the job too.
Then your tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Finally come your filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of the vehicle. Never started? Then roughly half an hour once we are there is most jobs.
Our technicians fire it up last. We make sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we go. Lasting damage is very rare when it's noticed early, and the entire job is done where the car is. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover is included in plenty of policies.
About Baglan itself
Baglan is a coastal village in Neath Port Talbot, situated near the mouth of the Afan River and close to the cities of Swansea and Port Talbot. Baglan has a population of around 2521 people and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Baglan sits at a low elevation of 18 metres above sea level, looking out over the Bristol Channel. Baglan is located near other communities such as Briton Ferry and Sandfields.
AdBlue drains across Neath Port Talbot, Baglan included
As a coastal village, Baglan shares its vans with the nearby places — Shelone, Sandfields — right through SA postcodes. Telling us your SA12 8 postcode pins you fastest of all.
No moving is required, whether stopped in the centre of Baglan or on a lay-by en route to Baglan Park, so keep it put. Wherever it sits, that is where it is cleared. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to St. Catherine's, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to explain.
The one-line version
Where it has not started, phone and leave it off. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Baglan and anywhere across Neath Port Talbot on 0333 366 0103.