AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Forge Hammer: What Now?
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your engine has been started since. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Forge Hammer itself or out in Southville. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, done right where the car sits around Forge Hammer. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Stage one remains unchanged, even though the job is bigger.
Wherever across Torfaen it took place, one of the cases below matches yours.
On a Forge Hammer forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, bottle yet in hand, it dawns on you that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Be it Sainsbury's, Colley Motor Group or anywhere else around Forge Hammer, the situation is identical.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. Still in the tank, and no fuel drawn onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Phone us from the forecourt after the vehicle sits in a bay — the attendants will help roll it — and keep the bottle. Draining it there at the pump is possible if it can't be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Forge Hammer
On your dash, a reminder had been lit for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Right off Greenforge Way is no less likely from any other place.
Put simply: if your car hasn't moved since, it's nearly equal to spotting it at the forecourt. At the floor of that tank sits where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
Next: stop an early-morning drive by keeping your keys indoors, then phone us. Our technicians drain it on your driveway, whether that is in Forge Hammer or out in Northville. Late-night drains outside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Forge Hammer?
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a short way after the fill. Anywhere along Springvale or heading to Newport — under 5 miles away.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. The injection pump and every injector get it too on a longer trip, after the fuel filter and lines have it. More driving, more restarts: further it travels.
What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. Forge Hammer sits under 5 miles from the M4; on it, pull off at the first junction instead of pressing on to the services. No trial restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue will do. About what distance had it go? Tell us as you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You've had the car hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you didn't know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever in Torfaen, could make it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the situations above, and those depend on if it has run. Many hire and fleet agreements need the owner's sign-off before work.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is faster settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you are stranded in the car park outside Cwmbran, or by TK Maxx, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Forge Hammer?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think it did. What cap came off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle feels less than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Pontnewydd, or in a rush by the local primary school on the school run.
Meaning? Drips around the filler don't touch your engine at all. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, firing up your car will pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, then keep your motor off. Inspecting a tank that proves clean is better than emptying one once it's been run — so ring and tell us what you saw.
Forge Hammer: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Filling station, driveway, Workingmen's Club's car park or a road by Congress Theatre — the van reaches the vehicle, and three questions follow: which liquid, what amount, and whether it ran. On the phone, before dispatch, you hear the price, and those answers decide the work too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out on its own; that is why the flush, after the drain, counts far more here than with petrol. Clean diesel is put in once your filter has been cleaned or changed, and the car is then checked. Not started? Then roughly half an hour on site is most jobs.
We start the engine at the end. Before we head off, it is checked to make sure it runs smoothly on clean diesel. Long-term damage is very unusual if it's spotted early, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Forge Hammer, briefly
Forge Hammer is a suburban area in Torfaen, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 82 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Forge Hammer lies close to the city of Newport, approximately 4.8 miles away, and is near other local places such as Northville and Cwmbran. Forge Hammer has a population of around 2186 residents, living in a relatively small and compact community. Forge Hammer is located in a region with easy access to major cities, being around 125 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Forge Hammer and across Torfaen
Over NP postcodes, the teams serving Forge Hammer — a residential suburb — work surrounding towns too, Cwmbran and West Pontnewydd included. The whereabouts comes clearest from a postcode beginning NP44 5.
No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Forge Hammer or in a lay-by en route to Church Wood, so leave it put. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it is. Phone and ask instead of guessing when you are close to St Gabriel's Church, on a border, or somewhere tricky to pin down.
Your scenario, summed up
If it hasn't run, ring and leave it off. Started by now? Stop, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever case, in Forge Hammer and Torfaen, on 0333 366 0103.