Llandough: 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: whether the motor has run since it got in. Over in Leckwith or right around Llandough, an unrun engine should stay that way. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine both off. Across Llandough, such a case is generally drained and cleaned on the spot. Stop the minute you safely can then turn off, if it has been run. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in The Vale of Glamorgan it happened.
On a Llandough forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
You are 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. It could be the Asda, or the Morrisons, or a different station around Llandough.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. Still in that tank, and no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
Do this: stay out of the car, however much the queue wants freeing. Phone us from the forecourt once your car is in a space — the staff will help push it — and keep the receipt. Stuck beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment keeps a busy forecourt sensible, so we can drain the car in place.
At home in Llandough with AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had gone by with the dash light on. A bottle bought at the garage, emptied in at the drive — and it was just at the recycling that the cap got your eye. Driveways close to Llandough Hill get it as much as anywhere.
In short: if your vehicle hasn't moved since, it is almost equal to finding out at the pump. Being unable to mix, AdBlue drops to the base in your tank and waits. A night standing changes nothing.
Next: prevent an early-morning drive by putting the keys indoors, then ring us. In Penarth Moors or here in Llandough, the draining is done at your drive. Late-night empties beside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise.
On the road around Llandough with AdBlue in a diesel
Rough running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard arrived a mile or two after the fill. It might have been driving to Cardiff, under 3 miles away, or just down Tuscan Close.
What it means: the fuel system has drawn the AdBlue in. Past your filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
Stop somewhere safe — that is the first job — then turn everything off. Llandough sits under 10 miles from the M4; on it, pull off at the first junction rather than pressing on to the services. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Call, saying what distance your car went.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
You've had the vehicle barely a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, its inlet is just by your diesel inlet — news to you. It can happen to anyone, anywhere in The Vale of Glamorgan.
Meaning? Whichever case above applies here — run or unrun — plus one extra stage. Any work on your car often requires the owner's approval under hire or company agreements.
Sorting it before we arrives is faster, so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Hanging on for an answer at the car park at Cogan, or near St Dochdwy's Church? Leave the engine off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Llandough
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". A faint ammonia whiff lingers around your filler, the bottle seems too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. The gates of the local primary school in a hurry, say, or someone's driveway out in Grangetown.
The upshot: the motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed around the filler. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. Turning on the car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it will pull it in.
Do this: behave as if it got in, and never start your motor. Ring us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Llandough: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Three questions come once we reach your car — at a filling station, a drive, a road beside Llandough War Memorial Hall or the car park outside Courts: the fluid, the amount, and whether the motor has been started. Replies set the work; the price follows on the call whilst no one has left yet.
Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Last come your filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; fresh diesel; and a test of the car. If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is firing it up. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers confirm it's running smoothly, and then we leave. The whole job is done where your car is, and if it is caught quickly, lasting damage is very rare. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, no money upfront. It is worth remembering: lots of insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your documents as you wait pays.
About Llandough
Llandough is a suburban area in The Vale of Glamorgan, situated near the coast and approximately 2 miles from Cardiff. Llandough has a relatively low elevation of 38 metres and is close to nearby places such as Penarth Moors and Cogan. Llandough is predominantly composed of flat housing, which is typical of many coastal areas in Wales. Llandough is also relatively close to the city of Cardiff, with easy access to its amenities.
AdBlue drains around Llandough, and across The Vale of Glamorgan too
Llandough is a residential suburb, and the same vans that cover it work the towns around it too, Cogan and Penarth Flats among them, across the CF postcode area. A postcode starting CF64 2 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No moving is required, be it stopped centrally in Llandough or in a lay-by en route to King George V Memorial Playing Fields, so leave it where it is. The drain happens on the spot. If you are somewhere hard to explain, close to Silent Links or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In one line: your situation
Unstarted? Leave it that way then ring. Whichever case fits, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, across The Vale of Glamorgan and within Llandough — once you stop, turn off then ring, if it has run.