Llanidloes: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of that turns on one fact: if the engine has started after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. Not started yet? Then keep the vehicle like that, wherever the car sits — Llanidloes or Cwmbelan. Leave the engine and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103; it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Llanidloes. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same.
Further down: the cases we see, wherever across Powys. Pick the one that fits.
At the petrol pump around Llanidloes: AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: stood by the petrol pump, gripping the bottle, you realise the cap you took off wasn't the right one. Whether Texaco, another forecourt nearby or anywhere else in Llanidloes, the case is identical.
Put simply: there is no better spot to be to spot it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the pump needs clearing. Phone us from the forecourt after the car sits in a space — the attendants will help roll it — and keep the bottle. Can't move it by the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
Llanidloes, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been warning you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the driveway, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look once more at the cap. Houses just off Cambrian Place are hit as much as everywhere else.
In short: if your car hasn't been driven since, it's almost as good as spotting it at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue settles to the floor of your tank and stays put, however long the night.
Your move: keys indoors, so nobody drives your car off at breakfast. Then, phone. Our engineers drain it on your drive, whether that is around Llanidloes or out in Felindre. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a driveway.
Llanidloes: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
A short way after filling up, the engine began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, less power, lights on the dash. Possibly it was on Great Oak Street, perhaps on the way out towards Hereford, under 50 miles away.
The point: your system has drawn AdBlue in by now. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and the fuel injectors. It goes further with each mile covered and every restart.
Pull in safely — that's the next job — then turn it off. Llanidloes lies under 50 miles from the M54; there, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on for the services. Starting it again to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us hear the mileage covered when you ring.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
Seven days back, it was unknown to you. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are side by side here — unlike your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or stores it elsewhere. Anywhere you happen to be around Powys, every driver could be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts require the owner's approval before work.
Settling it before we arrives is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park outside Caersws, or by Llandiloes Library, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the car off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Llanidloes?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest answer there is. A slight ammonia smell hangs near your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. It might have been at a friend's driveway in Y Fan, or in a rush by the local primary school at the school run.
The upshot: the engine isn't hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. In the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue harms it. Turning on your car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it would suck it in.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't start it. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a better result than an already-run one drained.
Llanidloes: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Each situation has the same start to the work. Three questions are asked when our technicians arrive — at a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Town Hall or the car park outside The Mount Inn: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. On the phone, before dispatch, you are told the quote, and those answers decide the work too.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important after urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
Our engineers fire it up last. Before we head off, it is tested to confirm it runs smoothly on fresh diesel. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and when it's spotted early, permanent damage is very unusual. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth knowing: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a check of your policy as we travel pays.
About Llanidloes
Llanidloes is a small town situated on the River Severn in Powys, Wales, with a population of around 3112 people. Llanidloes has a mix of housing types, but is predominantly characterised by terraced homes. Llanidloes sits at an elevation of 172 metres, near the villages of Felindre, Glan-y-nant, and Glynbrochan. Llanidloes is located approximately 44 miles from the city of Hereford and 159 miles from London.
AdBlue drains around Llanidloes and across Powys
Over SY postcodes, the vans covering Llanidloes — a riverside town — reach surrounding places as well, Glan-y-nant and Glynbrochan among them. Quickest of all: a SY18 6 postcode to show where you stand.
Whether the car is on a lay-by on the way to Llwyn Dyrys or in a car park in the middle of Llanidloes, it does not need to shift. Where it stands, that's where it is drained. Awkward to pin down? Close to Llanidloes Museum or a border? Checking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Your scenario, summed up
Not run yet: keep it off then ring. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder, within Llanidloes or wherever across Powys.