Dan-y-graig: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has been started since. Over in Swansea or here around Dan-y-graig, an unrun motor must stay that way. Keep nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, then expect a proper flush plus a drain, done just where your car sits around Dan-y-graig. When your engine has been run, pull in somewhere safe straight away, then turn the vehicle off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Compare what happened to one of the ones below, wherever around Swansea you are.
Dan-y-graig forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Be it Burrows Service Station, Sainsbury's or somewhere else around Dan-y-graig, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the ideal location to find out. Just the tank holds AdBlue; not one part beyond it has drawn it in.
Do this: keep out of the driver's seat, however much the queue wants freeing. Ring us from the forecourt once the vehicle is in a bay — the staff will help roll it — then keep the receipt. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that cannot be pushed clear is drained where it is at the pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home in Dan-y-graig
Several days had passed with the warning light on. Picked up a bottle, poured it in at home, binned the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, after the fact. Homes just off St. Illtyd's Crescent get hit as often as everywhere else.
Put simply: if the vehicle hasn't been driven since, it is nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. Being unable to mix, AdBlue drops low inside the tank and waits. One night parked alters nothing.
Put your keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person might take it away first thing — and phone us. St Thomas or Dan-y-graig: whichever your drive sits, that's where it gets cleared. Night-time clears outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Dan-y-graig?
A mile or two beyond topping up, your motor started misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. Maybe heading for Swansea, under 3 miles away, or just along Reginald Street.
The upshot: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. The high-pressure pump and every injector get it as well on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and pipework have it. Every restart, like each mile, carries it on.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so then switch off. Services further on are too far: from the M4, under 5 miles out of Dan-y-graig, use the first junction. It won't have cleared, and so there's no point restarting to check. About what distance had it go? Tell us when you phone.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
You have had the vehicle barely a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is just next to the diesel cap — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in Swansea.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. The owner frequently has to sign off any work, under many hire and company agreements.
Settling it before we turn up is quicker, and so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park outside Swansea, or by Saint Illtyd's Catholic Church, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
Dan-y-graig: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Honestly, the best answer may be that you think it did. Too light, the bottle; a hint of ammonia round your filler; a hazy memory of the cap. Sound familiar? Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Hanover Square.
Meaning? Spills around the inlet don't touch your motor at all. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another story. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so would pull in any AdBlue that is in the tank.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not crank it. Ring us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
What every AdBlue drain around Dan-y-graig has in common
Each case gets the same opening to the job. Our engineers come to the car, whether it is on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at Village Pub and Grill or a side street near St Thomas Library, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your motor has been run. Answers shape the work; the price comes on the call whilst nobody has set off yet.
Emptying your tank comes first, then a full flush — more important with urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go on their own, no matter how long it sits. Then comes your filter — flushed, or swapped when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment we turn up.
Our engineers fire it up last. Our check that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before our engineers leave. Our technicians do the whole job where your car is, and permanent damage is very unusual if it has been spotted quickly. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement is made on the day, and you receive what the insurer wants: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is built into many policies.
About Dan-y-graig
Dan-y-graig is a suburban area in Swansea, situated near the coast and approximately 1 mile from the city centre. Dan-y-graig has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced homes. Dan-y-graig sits at a relatively low elevation of around 30 metres above sea level, looking out over Swansea Bay. Dan-y-graig is close to nearby suburbs such as St Thomas and Port Tennant.
Dan-y-graig and Swansea: AdBlue drains across the area
Port Tennant and Foxhole have the same teams as Dan-y-graig, a residential suburb, along with other towns over SA postcodes. Fastest of all: a SA1 8 postcode to show your location.
Central Dan-y-graig or a layby near Jersey Park: wherever it is, the car doesn't need to shift at all for the drain. The drain happens right there. Awkward to pin down? By Kilvey Hill Windmill (remains) or a border? Asking is better than guessing, so ring.
Your situation, in one line
Engine never started: phone, leaving it switched off. Run already: pull over, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, in Dan-y-graig or anywhere in Swansea.