Rhostryfan: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One fact counts above all once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if your motor has run afterwards. Wherever the vehicle stands — Llanwnda, Rhostryfan — never run an engine that has not run yet. Usually this means emptying and thoroughly purging it right there around Rhostryfan — so keep the key and engine off and phone 0333 366 0103. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Anywhere in Gwynedd it happened, one of the cases below fits yours.
At the pump in Rhostryfan: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you are standing at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. It might be the Independent, or the Shell, or another station around Rhostryfan.
Put simply: no better place to be to discover it. Still inside the tank, with no fuel pulled onwards: that's where the AdBlue is.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the pump. Ring us from the forecourt once your car sits in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to push it — and save the bottle. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a Rhostryfan drive?
Several days had gone by with the dash light on. Bought a container, tipped it in at home, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, too late. Drives close to Cae'r Eglwys get it as much as anywhere.
Meaning? As long as the car hasn't been driven since, it's second to the pump case. On the floor of your tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, since it will not mix with diesel — and a night passing changes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the car in the morning. Then call. We drain the vehicle on your driveway, whether that's around Rhostryfan or out in Rhos Isaf. Our equipment runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving around Rhostryfan?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been driving for Bangor, under 15 miles away, or just along Fron Deg.
What it means: the system has drawn the AdBlue in. Through the filter, along the lines, and — the further the distance — deeper into the high-pressure pump and every injector. Every restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Do this: pull up anywhere sensible, then switch your motor off. Rhostryfan sits over 50 miles from the Moreton Spur; there, pull off at the next junction rather than pushing on for the services. Restarting it to check achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Call us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars
A week back, it was unknown to you. Your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, so no one warned you the AdBlue cap was just beside the diesel. Any driver, wherever in Gwynedd, might make it.
Meaning? Whichever applies above counts too — run or unrun — and one further step. Any work on your car frequently needs the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet agreements.
Do this: rental firm or your fleet manager to begin with, us second, since sorting it beforehand cuts time. Leave the car switched off while the reply arrives, even if you are parked at Llanfairpwll or near Horeb.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Rhostryfan?
Honestly, the only answer might be that you think so. A slight ammonia-like smell hangs near the filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. Maybe at a friend's drive in Dolydd, or in a rush outside the local primary school on the school run.
Meaning? Spills outside the inlet never touch the engine at all. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Turning on your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would pull it in.
Your move: act as though it did, and don't start your motor. Ring us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
The common ground in every Rhostryfan AdBlue drain
Every case has the same opening to the work. We come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a drive, the car park outside the pub in the village or a side street near Settlement, and ask three things: what went in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has been run. Answers shape the work; the price comes on the call whilst no one has left yet.
AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain metals used in fuel systems, so it won't wash out unaided; that's why the flush, after this drain, matters far more here than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in after the filter has been flushed or replaced, and the car is finally checked. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment we turn up.
Our engineers fire it up at the end. Our technicians check it runs correctly on fresh diesel before we go. Long-term damage is very uncommon when it is caught quickly, and the entire job is done where your car is. Paying is on the day, never upfront. For the insurer, there is a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Rhostryfan and where it is
Rhostryfan is a small village in Gwynedd, situated on the north Welsh coast, with a mix of rural and detached housing. Rhostryfan sits at an elevation of 135 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside and nearby villages such as Rhos Isaf and Rhosgadfan. Rhostryfan is located near the city of Bangor, approximately 10 miles away, and is part of a wider network of communities in the region. Rhostryfan has a population of around 699 people, living in predominantly detached homes.
Rhostryfan and Gwynedd: AdBlue drains across the area
Being a coastal village, Rhostryfan has the same vans as the surrounding places — Penyffridd, Rhosgadfan — right through LL postcodes. The location is quickest from a postcode beginning LL54 7.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Rhodgadfan Park and Community Woodland or in a car park in the middle of Rhostryfan, it does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it stands. If you are somewhere hard to describe, close to Gaerwen or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than guessing.
Your situation, in one line
Unstarted? Keep the car off then phone. Started by now? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whatever it is, across Rhostryfan and Gwynedd, on 0333 366 0103.