Penyffordd: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing counts most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the engine has been started since. Over in Lane End or here around Penyffordd, an unrun engine should remain unrun. Usually that is draining and properly purging it right there around Penyffordd — so leave the key and motor off then ring 0333 366 0103. Where the motor has run, pull in safely straight away, then switch it off. The job is bigger, but the first step is the same.
Compare your case to one of the list below, anywhere around Flintshire you are.
On a Penyffordd forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: stood by the pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the filler you opened wasn't the right one. It could be the Texaco, or perhaps the Applegreen, or a different station in Penyffordd.
What it means: this is the best location to find out. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, even if the pump wants clearing. Ask the staff to help you roll the vehicle into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it cannot be shifted, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
At home around Penyffordd with AdBlue in the diesel tank
On your dash, a reminder had shown for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the drive. It occurs on driveways just off Hawarden Road as regularly as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue settles to the base of your tank and remains put, however long the night.
Your move: the keys indoors, so nobody takes your car anywhere at breakfast. After that, ring. Out in Little Mountain or right here in Penyffordd, the draining happens on your driveway. Our equipment works quietly enough not to disturb the neighbours at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in Penyffordd?
Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two after the top-up. Possibly it was on Vounog Hill, perhaps on the way out towards Chester, under 10 miles away.
Meaning? The pump has sucked the AdBlue in. Past your filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and each injector. It goes deeper with each mile driven and each restart.
Stop somewhere safe — that's the first job — then turn it off. Services further along can wait: from the M56, under 10 miles out of Penyffordd, use the next junction. Starting it again to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Let us know the mileage driven when you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have had the car hardly a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anyone, wherever across Flintshire, might do it.
Meaning? Whatever applies above counts here — run or unrun — and one further step. Work on the vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet terms.
Settling it before the van arrives is faster, so phone the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. If you are stranded in the car park at the nearest station, or by Replica Roman Fort, whilst you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Penyffordd: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think so. Which cap came off, you can't say; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of Dodleston CofE Primary School in a hurry, say, or someone's drive over in Old Warren.
In short: a spill near your filler leaves the engine unharmed. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, firing up the car would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Next: assume it got in, and leave the engine off. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean beats draining one after it's been run — so phone and tell us what you saw.
What every AdBlue drain in Penyffordd has in common
No matter the case, a single opening applies. Wherever your vehicle is — Royal British Legion's car park, a road beside All Saints, a drive, a forecourt — the van gets there and asks for the liquid, the amount, plus whether the engine has turned over. Those replies decide the work, and you get the quote by phone, before anyone heads out.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a careful flush — more important with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go by themselves, no matter how long you wait. The fuel filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
The last step is firing it up. Before we leave, it's checked to be sure it runs correctly on clean diesel. Lasting damage is very rare if it is noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where your car is. Payment comes on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of policies cover misfuelling, so check yours as we head over.
About Penyffordd itself
Penyffordd is a small village in Flintshire, situated inland at an elevation of 103 metres, approximately 7 miles from Chester. Penyffordd has a population of around 1500 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Penyffordd is close to nearby places such as Little Mountain, Dobs Hill, and Spon Green, and is located about 167 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Flintshire, Penyffordd included
Penyffordd is a rural village, and the same vans that cover it work the places near it too, Dobs Hill and Spon Green among them, across the CH postcode area. A postcode starting CH4 0 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Stopped heading to Price's Hill Wood, or right in the heart of Penyffordd, your car stays put — there is no need to shift it at all. Our engineers drain it where it is. Assuming won't help beside Kinnerton Village Hall, close to a county line or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check.
The one-line version
If it hasn't started, ring and keep it off. Whatever line applies, Petrol in Diesel handles the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Flintshire and within Penyffordd — after you pull over, switch off then ring, if it's run.