AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Radnor, and What to Do Next
One thing counts above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether your engine has run afterwards. Not started so far? Then keep the car like that, whether your car is — Radnor or Hulme Walfield. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a thorough flush after a drain, done right where the car sits in Radnor. When the engine has run, stop safely straight away, then switch the vehicle off. A larger job, then, but the identical opening step.
Anywhere around Cheshire it took place, one of the situations below matches yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Radnor forecourt
You're 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 BP, or perhaps the Shell, or a different station in Radnor.
In short: no better place to be to discover it. Still in that tank, and nothing drawn through: that is where the AdBlue is.
Clearing the pump is no excuse to start it — and so do not get back in. Get the attendants to help rolling it to a space, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Can't move the vehicle beside the pump? Our explosion-proof kit keeps a busy forecourt sensible, so we can drain it in place.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Radnor drive?
On the dash, a reminder had shown all week. Picked up a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and only then checked the cap a second time, after the fact. Drives close to Black Firs Lane get it as much as anywhere.
In short: if the vehicle has not moved since, it is nearly equal to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of that tank and remains there, however long the night.
Keep your keys in the house overnight — otherwise a person might take it off first thing — then call us. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that is around Radnor or out in Somerford Booths. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Radnor: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way beyond the fill. Chelford Road, perhaps, or the way towards Stoke-on-Trent — a run of under 15 miles.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, after the fuel filter and lines have had it. Each restart, like each mile, carries it on.
Do this: stop anywhere sensible, then switch your engine off. On the M6, under 5 miles from Radnor, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us know the mileage covered when you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have just had the vehicle for days. Your own car either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits just next to your diesel. Across Cheshire, nobody is safe from it.
Put simply: one extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: phone the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is quicker. Leave the car off as the answer arrives, whether you're waiting at Congleton or close to St Michael.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Radnor?
"I think so" is sometimes the most honest as it gets. Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at Black Firs Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Newsbank.
The upshot: the engine is not hurt by a little AdBlue splashed on the filler. If it is inside the diesel tank, though, it does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the vehicle would pull it in, and it would not tell you which either.
Take it that it got in, and don't turn the key. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Each AdBlue drain around Radnor shares these stages
Every case has the same opening to the work. Filling station, drive, the pub in the village's car park or a street beside All Saints' Chapel of Ease — the van reaches your vehicle, and three questions come next: what fluid, which quantity, and whether it has run. Replies shape the job; the quote follows by phone whilst no one has left yet.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it is crucial, since deposits build up and some metals are attacked, and none of that washes out unaided. Clean diesel goes in once the filter has been cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally checked. The majority of unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment we turn up.
Last, our engineers fire it up. Our test that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our technicians head off. Long-term damage is very rare when it's noticed soon, and the whole job is done where the vehicle is. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money upfront. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Radnor, for a moment
Radnor is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Cheshire, with an elevation of around 91 metres. Radnor lies near the villages of Somerford Booths and Wornish Nook, and is approximately 11 miles from Stoke-on-Trent. Radnor has a population of around 841 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Radnor is located in the North West region of England, about 146 miles from London.
Radnor and Cheshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Radnor is a rural hamlet, and the same teams that cover it work the places around it too, Wornish Nook and West Heath among them, across the CW postcode area. The location is clearest from a postcode that starts CW12 4.
No towing is required, be it stopped in the centre of Radnor or on a lay-by en route to Black Firs Wood, so leave it where it is. Wherever it sits, that is where it gets drained. Awkward to explain? Close to St Mary's Parish Centre or a border? Asking is better than guessing, so ring.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the car off and ring. Run by now: pull over, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, in Radnor or anywhere in Cheshire.