Magor: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has the motor turned over since the AdBlue went in? That one question decides almost everything else from here. Not run so far? Then leave the vehicle like that, wherever your vehicle is — Magor or Knollbury. Leave your engine and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Magor. Stop the moment you safely can then turn off, if it has already run. It's a bigger job, yet step one doesn't change.
Wherever in Monmouthshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
At the petrol pump around Magor: AdBlue in a diesel
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. Anywhere around Magor, then — BP, Gulf, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is as good as it can be. The AdBlue is in that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ring us from the forecourt once the car is in a bay — the attendants will lend a hand to push it — then save the bottle. The equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt, so a vehicle that can't be pushed clear is drained where it is at the petrol pump.
AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Magor
On your dash, a warning had shown for days. Picked up a bottle, poured it in at home, recycled the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. It happens on drives just off The Square as often as anywhere.
The point: zero miles since leaves it nearly as good to finding it at the petrol pump. At the floor of the tank sits exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing makes nothing of the difference.
Next: keys indoors, so no one drives the car anywhere at breakfast. After that, ring. Your drive is where it is emptied, whether in Magor or Whitewall Common. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Magor?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. It might have been heading to Newport, under 10 miles away, or just along Brassknocker Street.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled into the fuel system. Past your filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and every injector. More driving, more restarts: further it goes.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, then switch your engine off. Services further along can wait: on the M4, under a mile out of Magor, use the first junction. Starting it again to test gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. About what distance had it go? Tell us when you phone.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It is a motor you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Anyone, wherever across Monmouthshire, might make it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under hire or company agreements.
What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians turn up than after. Stuck by Magor War Memorial or at Severn Tunnel Junction till someone answers, the car remains turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Magor?
Now and then, "I think so" is all you can truthfully say. Too light, the bottle; a trace of ammonia near your filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Llandevenny.
Meaning? Drips outside the filler don't touch the motor at all. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. If there is AdBlue in your tank, firing up your car would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Do this: behave as though it did, and don't start your motor. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in each Magor AdBlue drain
Every situation has the same opening to the work. Filling station, drive, Wheatsheaf's car park or a street beside The Procurator's House — the van comes to the car, and three questions follow: which liquid, which quantity, and whether it has run. Those answers settle this work, and you get our price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Emptying your tank comes first, followed by a full flush — more vital after urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion won't go by themselves, however long you wait. Last come the fuel filter, flushed or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of the vehicle. Not started? Then roughly half an hour once we are there covers most jobs.
We start it at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it's running correctly, and then we leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it is caught soon, and the entire job is done where the car 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, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Magor, for a moment
Magor is a coastal village in Monmouthshire, situated near the mouth of the Severn Estuary at an elevation of around 10 metres. Magor lies close to the cities of Newport and Cardiff, and is surrounded by nearby places such as Whitewall Common and Undy. Magor has a population of approximately 1673 people, predominantly living in detached housing. Magor is located about 7 miles from Newport and 116 miles from London.
Magor and Monmouthshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Magor is a coastal village, and the same vans that cover it work the towns near it too, Undy and Vinegar Hill among them, across the NP postcode area. Giving us a NP26 3 postcode pins you fastest of all.
Stopped heading to Magor Marsh SSSI, or right in the centre of Magor, the car remains where it is — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. Awkward to explain? Close to Ebenezer or a border? Checking beats assuming, and so ring.
In one line: your situation
Unstarted? Leave it that way then phone. Run by now? Stop, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, in Magor and Monmouthshire, on 0333 366 0103.