Pwll-trap: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on one detail: if your motor has started since the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. Not run so far? Then leave it that way, whether your vehicle sits — Pwll-trap or Pont-y-Fenni. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your ignition and motor both off. In Pwll-trap, that is typically drained and flushed on the spot. Where the motor has been run, pull in somewhere safe first, then switch it off. Stage one stays unchanged, even if the job grows.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across Carmarthenshire it happened.
On a Pwll-trap forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, nozzle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, there at the pump. Be it Texaco, Shell or somewhere else around Pwll-trap, the situation is identical.
Meaning? Finding out here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — so don't get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after your vehicle is in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — and save the receipt. Draining it right at the petrol pump is possible when it cannot be moved, because the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Pwll-trap
For days the dash had been nagging you. Picked up a bottle, tipped it in outside the house, binned the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, too late. Right off Bethlehem Road is no less likely from any other place.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Being reluctant to mix, AdBlue settles low in the tank and waits. A night parked changes nothing.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. St Clears or Pwll-trap: wherever your driveway sits, that's where it gets drained. Night-time drains beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
Pwll-trap: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Gors Fach, say, or the way towards Swansea — a trip of under 50 miles.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue up. The injection pump and each injector get it too on a longer trip, after the fuel filter and pipework have it. More miles, more starts: deeper it travels.
Do this: stop somewhere safe, then turn your engine off. On the M4, under 25 miles from Pwll-trap, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Do not restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Phone, and say how far your vehicle went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've only driven the car for days. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue cap sits just beside the diesel. Anywhere you are in Carmarthenshire, every motorist could slip up.
Meaning? Whatever case above applies too — run or not — and one further step. Many hire and company agreements require the owner's sign-off before work.
Sorting it before the van turn up is quicker, and so phone the hire company or your fleet manager, and then us. Stuck near Bethlehem Chapel or outside Whitland until someone answers, the vehicle stays turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Pwll-trap?
At times the fair answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Pentowin.
Meaning? Spills outside the filler don't touch your motor at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in that tank would be pulled in by starting the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it went in. Don't crank it. Describe what you saw on your phone. A clean tank checked counts as a happier result than a run one drained.
What every AdBlue drain in Pwll-trap has in common
Whichever situation you are in, this job starts the same way. Three things come once we arrive — at a forecourt, a drive, a road by St Clears Public Library or the car park outside The White Lion Inn: the fluid, the amount, and whether it has been started. Replies shape the work; the quote comes on the call whilst nobody has set off yet.
Then the tank is drained and the system flushed 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 does not rinse out on its own. Finally come the filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your car. Where the motor has not run, allow roughly half an hour once we arrive, in most jobs.
Firing it up comes at the end. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we check it's running smoothly, and then we go. When it is spotted quickly, the car very rarely has lasting damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. Nothing is paid upfront, payment happens on the day, and you receive what the insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Dig out your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Pwll-trap and where it is
Pwll-trap is a small village in Carmarthenshire, situated inland at an elevation of 52 metres. Pwll-trap lies near the communities of St Clears, Backe, and Llanddowror, and is approximately 28 miles from Swansea. Pwll-trap has a population of around 790 people, predominantly living in detached houses.
AdBlue drains across Carmarthenshire, Pwll-trap included
Backe and Llanddowror get the identical teams as Pwll-trap, a rural village, plus further towns throughout SA postcodes. A postcode starting SA33 4 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
No moving is required, whether parked centrally in Pwll-trap or in a layby en route to Llanddowror Pound, so keep it put. The drain is done on the spot. Assuming doesn't help beside St Cynin's Church, on a border or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the car off then ring. Run already: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Pwll-trap or wherever in Carmarthenshire.