AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Clase: What Now?
Has your motor run since the AdBlue went in? This one point decides almost everything else from here. Wherever the vehicle stands — Llangyfelach, Clase — don't start an engine that has not been started yet. Usually this is emptying and properly flushing it on the spot around Clase — and so keep the key and engine off then phone 0333 366 0103. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then turn everything off. It's a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever around Swansea it happened.
Clase forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
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. Whether Texaco, Asda or somewhere else in Clase, the situation is the same.
Put simply: no better spot exists to spot it. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Freeing the pump is no reason to run it — and so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after your vehicle is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then save the bottle. Can't move the car by the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, and so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Clase
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you had opened at the drive. Drives near Hill View Crescent get it as much as any other street.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue drops to the base in the tank and waits. A night standing changes none of that.
Next: the keys in the house, and so no one takes your vehicle off at breakfast. Then, ring. Your driveway is where it is drained, be it in Clase or Mynydd-Garn-Lwyd. The equipment works quietly enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Clase?
A mile or two after filling up, the engine started playing up: rough running, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Maybe driving for Swansea, under 5 miles away, or simply down Glaslyn Place.
In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through the system. Past the filter, along the lines, and — the more the distance — deeper into the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in safely — that is the first step — then turn everything off. Clase lies under a mile from the M4; there, pull off at the next junction instead of pressing on for the services. It won't have cleared, so there's no point restarting to check. Let us hear the distance driven as you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a motor you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel inlets sit side by side here — not like your own car, which has none or keeps it elsewhere. Anyone, wherever across Swansea, could do the same.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and fleet agreements require the owner's sign-off before repairs.
Sorting it before the van turn up is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. Hanging on for an answer in the car park at Llansamlet, or beside St. Davids Church, Morriston? Keep your car off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Clase
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. What cap came off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by the filler. A rushed top-up by the gates of the local primary school, or a call to a friend in Morriston: either fit.
Meaning? Drips around the filler never reach your motor at all. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the vehicle will pull it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: act as though it got in, then leave your engine off. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank checked counts as a better result than an already-run one emptied.
The common ground in every Clase AdBlue drain
The job begins the same way, whichever the situation. Three things are asked once we arrive — at a filling station, a driveway, a street beside The Salvation Army or the car park at Clase Social Club: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Those replies determine the work, and you get our price on the phone, before anybody heads out.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it won't wash out unaided; that is why a full flush, after this drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Fresh diesel is put in after the fuel filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is finally checked. Not started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
The final step is starting the engine. We check it runs correctly on new diesel before we leave. When it is caught quickly, the car very seldom has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you get what your insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over.
About Clase itself
Clase is a suburban area located inland, approximately 3.1 miles from Swansea city centre, and sits at an elevation of 154 metres. Clase is characterised by its semi-detached housing stock and is situated near several nearby places, including Mynydd-Garn-Lwyd, Mynydd-bach, and Tirdeunaw. Clase has a population of around 4744 residents and is part of the wider Swansea urban area.
AdBlue drains round Clase and across Swansea
Clase is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places near it too, Mynydd-bach and Tirdeunaw among them, across the SA postcode area. Giving us a SA6 7 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is required, be it stopped in the centre of Clase or in a layby en route to Morriston Park, so keep it where it is. The drain is done right there. Phone and check rather than guess if you're close to Tabernacle, on a border, or somewhere tricky to explain.
Your scenario, in one line
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle off and phone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Clase or wherever in Swansea.