Cogan: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it was put in. Out in Eastbrook or right around Cogan, an unstarted engine must remain that way. Keep nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, done just where your vehicle sits around Cogan. When your motor has run, pull in safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. It is a bigger job, though step one doesn't change.
Below: the situations our technicians meet, anywhere across The Vale of Glamorgan. Choose the one that fits.
At the petrol pump in Cogan: AdBlue in a diesel
Only now, nozzle yet in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the petrol pump. Somewhere around Cogan, then — Tesco, Morrisons, or anywhere else nearby.
The point: of every spot to find out, this is the best. Still in that tank, with no fuel drawn through: that is where the AdBlue is.
Next: avoid the urge to start it only to free up the petrol pump. A few things: a shove into a space with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a call to us from the forecourt. If it cannot be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Cogan
Days had gone by with the dash light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the driveway. It happens on driveways just off Foxglove Rise as often as anywhere.
Put simply: if your car has not moved since, it's almost as good as spotting it at the pump. At the bottom of that tank sits where AdBlue waits, since it will not blend with diesel — and a night going by makes no difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then ring. Out in Llandough or here around Cogan, the drain is done on your driveway. The pumping kit runs quiet enough not to disturb the street at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Cogan?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the top-up. Redlands Road, say, or the route towards Cardiff — a run of under 3 miles.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. It's been through the filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so and switch off. Services farther along are too far: from the M4, under 10 miles out of Cogan, take the first junction. It will not have cleared, so there is no sense starting it again to check. Roughly what distance did it gone? Tell us when you phone.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've just driven this car a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit side by side here — unlike your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anywhere you happen to be in The Vale of Glamorgan, every driver can slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more stage. Any work on the car frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet agreements.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is quicker. Stranded near Penarth Leisure Centre or outside the nearest station until someone answers, the car stays turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Cogan?
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think it did. What cap was taken off, you can't say; but the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by the filler. A rushed stop by the gates of the local primary school, or a call to a friend in Penarth Moors: either fits.
Meaning? Spills around the filler don't touch the motor at all. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Any AdBlue in that tank would be pulled in by turning on the car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't crank it. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Every AdBlue drain around Cogan shares these stages
The work begins the same way, whichever the situation. Three things are asked when we arrive — on a filling station, a driveway, a street beside Elfed Avenue United Church or the car park at Merrie Harrier: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has been started. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our quote, and those answers decide the work too.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Never started? In that case about half an hour on site is most jobs.
The last step is starting it. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our technicians check it's running properly, and then we head off. The whole job is done where the car is, and if it's noticed soon, long-term damage is very uncommon. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies cover misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels.
About Cogan itself
Cogan is a suburban area in the Vale of Glamorgan, situated near the coast and approximately 2.8 miles from Cardiff. Cogan has a relatively low elevation of 38 metres and is characterised by semi-detached housing. Cogan is part of the wider Cardiff urban area, with nearby places including Llandough, Morristown, and Murch.
AdBlue drains around Cogan and across The Vale of Glamorgan
Throughout CF postcodes, the vans serving Cogan — a residential suburb — work surrounding places as well, Morristown and Murch included. Your whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning CF64 2.
Parked heading to Cogan Recreation Ground, or bang in the heart of Cogan, your car remains where it is — there is no need to move it at all. Draining happens right there. Awkward to explain? By Eastbrook Methodist Church or a border? Asking beats assuming, so ring.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: phone, and leave it alone. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over from there on 0333 366 0103, across The Vale of Glamorgan and in Cogan — after you stop, turn off and phone, if it has run.