AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Bon-y-maen: What Now?
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if the motor has been started afterwards. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Bon-y-maen itself or out in Cefn-hengoed. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out right where your vehicle stands around Bon-y-maen. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then turn everything off. It is a larger job, though step one doesn't change.
Further down: the cases we meet, anywhere around Swansea. Pick yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Bon-y-maen forecourt
You're 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. Somewhere in Bon-y-maen, then — Morrisons, Texaco, or anywhere else close by.
Meaning? Spotting it here is as good as it gets. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
What to do: do not get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Ask the attendants to help you push your car into a parking spot, keep your receipt or the bottle, and phone us from the forecourt. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed clear is emptied where it is at the petrol pump.
Bon-y-maen, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the dash light on. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look again at the cap. Driveways near Cefn Road see it as much as anywhere.
The point: zero miles since makes this nearly as good to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue settles to the floor of the tank and remains put, however long it waits.
Keep your keys indoors overnight — or a person might drive it away first thing — and call us. Pentrer-Gaseg or Bon-y-maen: whichever your driveway sits, that is where it gets cleared. Late-night clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
On the road around Bon-y-maen with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two after the fill. Somewhere on Mansel Road or heading towards Swansea — under 3 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. Through your filter, along the lines, and — the more the distance — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. It travels further with each mile covered and each restart.
Do this: stop anywhere safe, then turn your engine off. Leave by the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M4, under 3 miles from Bon-y-maen. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Let us know the distance driven when you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You've had the car hardly a week. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so no one told you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside the diesel. Across Swansea, nobody is immune.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts here — run or not — and one extra step. Many hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Hanging on for a reply in the car park at Llansamlet, or near TK Maxx? Keep the car off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Bon-y-maen?
"I think so" is often as honest as it gets. Too light, that bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; a hazy recollection of which cap. Sound familiar? It might have been at a friend's drive in Ty-draw, or rushing outside the local primary school at the school run.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never reach the motor at all. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. If there is AdBlue in that tank, starting the vehicle would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't crank it. Ring and give the details: we'd sooner find a clean tank than empty one once your motor has been run.
Bon-y-maen: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens identically, whichever your case. Three questions are asked when we arrive — on a filling station, a drive, a street by Morfa Shopping or the car park at The Bonymaen: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has run. Over the phone, ahead of dispatch, you hear the price, and those answers decide the work too.
Then your tank is cleared and the system cleaned thoroughly, which matters 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. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. The majority of unrun cars are a half-hour job after the moment our technicians get there.
Our engineers start the engine last. Our test that it runs smoothly on clean diesel comes before we head off. When it's spotted early, the car very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job happens where it is. Payment is that day, never upfront. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice plus a written report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Bon-y-maen itself
Bon-y-maen is a suburban area located on the coast near Swansea, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Bon-y-maen sits at an elevation of 84 metres, overlooking the surrounding coastline and nearby cities. Bon-y-maen is close to several nearby places, including Pentrer-Gaseg, Tir-Nest, and Hanover Square, and is situated approximately 1.9 miles from Swansea city centre.
AdBlue drains round Bon-y-maen and across Swansea
Bon-y-maen is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Tir-Nest and Hanover Square among them, across the SA postcode area. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts SA1 7.
Stopped en route to Kilvey Community Woodland, or bang in the heart of Bon-y-maen, your vehicle remains put — there is no need to move it anywhere. Draining is done on the spot. Ring and check instead of guessing when you are close to Kilvey Hill Windmill (remains), on a boundary, or anywhere tricky to explain.
Your scenario, in one line
Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Bon-y-maen and anywhere across Swansea on 0333 366 0103.