Colcot: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has run since. Not started so far? Then keep the car that way, whether the vehicle sits — Colcot or Barry Dock. Leave the engine and your ignition off and call 0333 366 0103; it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Colcot. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, then, but the identical first move.
Wherever in The Vale of Glamorgan it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the petrol pump in Colcot: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Be it Shell, Texaco or somewhere else around Colcot, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Three jobs: a shove into a bay with the staff helping, the receipt saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. Can't move it by the pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt safe, and so we can drain it where it is.
Colcot, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used on the drive. Just off Highlight Lane is no less likely from any other place.
The point: zero miles since leaves this almost as good to finding it at the pump. On the floor of the tank sits where AdBlue stays, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop any early-morning drive by putting your keys indoors, then ring us. Our technicians drain it on your driveway, whether that's in Colcot or out in Merthyr Dyfan. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
On the road around Colcot with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way beyond the top-up. Maybe heading for Cardiff, under 10 miles away, or simply down Hellas Drive.
What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Through the filter, along the pipework, and — the further the distance — on into the injection pump and each injector. More miles, more restarts: further it goes.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the next step — then turn it off. Services farther along are too far: on the M4, under 10 miles out of Colcot, use the first junction. Do not restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About what distance had it gone? Say so as you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
It's a vehicle you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so no one warned you the AdBlue cap sits just next to the diesel. Wherever you happen to be around The Vale of Glamorgan, any driver could slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Many rental and company contracts need the owner's sign-off for work.
Next: phone the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. If you are stuck in the car park outside Barry, or by Highlight Park Community Centre, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Colcot: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think so. What cap came off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle feels lighter than expected, and ammonia lingers by the filler. It might have been on a friend's drive in Cadoxton, or rushing by the local primary school on the school run.
The point: your motor is not hurt by a little AdBlue spilled on the filler. Once it is inside the diesel tank, though, that changes. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in that tank.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Do not crank it. Inspecting a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats draining one after it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw.
The common ground in each Colcot AdBlue drain
Every situation gets the same opening to the work. Three things come when our engineers arrive — at a forecourt, a drive, a road beside Saint David's Methodist Church or the car park outside Colcot Arms: the fluid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Over the phone, ahead of anything else, you are told our price, and those replies decide the work too.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is standard; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals build up and certain metals are attacked, and neither washes out unaided. Clean diesel is put in once the filter has been flushed or changed, and the car is finally tested. The majority of unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers turn up.
Starting it comes at the end. Before our technicians go, it's tested to be sure it runs correctly on fresh diesel. When it is caught soon, the car very rarely has permanent damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money in advance. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours as we head over.
About Colcot and where it is
Colcot is a suburban area in the Vale of Glamorgan, situated near the coast and approximately 6.5 miles from Cardiff. Colcot sits at an elevation of around 86 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Colcot is close to nearby places such as Merthyr Dyfan, Gibbonsdown, and Barry, and is home to a population of around 3301 people. Colcot is also within commuting distance to major cities, with London being around 136 miles away.
AdBlue drains around Colcot, and across The Vale of Glamorgan too
Over CF postcodes, the vans covering Colcot — a residential suburb — reach surrounding places as well, Gibbonsdown and Barry included. Giving us your CF62 8 postcode finds you quickest of all.
Centre of Colcot or a lay-by near Colcot Playing Fields: wherever it sits, your car never needs to shift at all for us. The drain happens on the spot. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to Barry Arts Centre or close to a border, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep it off then call. Whatever line fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout The Vale of Glamorgan and within Colcot — once you stop, turn off then ring, if it has run.