AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Rhydyfelin, and What to Do Next
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether your motor has been run since it got in. Out in Upper Boat or right around Rhydyfelin, an unrun motor should stay that way. Switch nothing on, ring 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, carried out just where the vehicle sits around Rhydyfelin. Already run? Pull over when you safely can, then switch everything off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Further down: the situations we see, anywhere across Rhondda Cynon Taf. Choose yours.
AdBlue in a diesel on a Rhydyfelin forecourt
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. Maybe you are at the Tesco, perhaps at the Esso, perhaps somewhere else around Rhydyfelin.
What it means: this is the best place to find out. Nothing has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays only in that tank.
Your move: stay out of the driver's seat, however much the pump needs clearing. Ask the staff to help you push the car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt safe, and so we can drain the car where it is.
Rhydyfelin, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had gone by with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened on the driveway. Drives near Holly Street get it as much as any other street.
Meaning? Provided your car hasn't moved since, it's second to the pump case. Being unable to blend, AdBlue settles low inside the tank and stays. One night standing changes none of that.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it is emptied, whether around Rhydyfelin or Hawthorn. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
On the road in Rhydyfelin with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your engine began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Anywhere on Elm Street or heading to Cardiff — under 10 miles away.
What it means: your fuel system has sucked the AdBlue in. Distance sets how deep it gets: filter and pipework to begin with, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Do this: pull up somewhere safe, then turn your engine off. On the M4, under 5 miles from Rhydyfelin, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Let us hear the mileage covered as you ring.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
You have had the vehicle barely a week. Unbeknown to you, the two fillers sit next to each other here — not like your own car, which has none or stores it in another spot. Across Rhondda Cynon Taf, nobody is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and fleet contracts require the owner's approval before repairs.
Do this: rental firm or fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it early cuts time. Keep it switched off as the reply arrives, whether you're parked at Trefforest or close to Rhydyfelin Methodist Church.
AdBlue in the diesel tank? Not sure, in Rhydyfelin
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. A slight ammonia whiff hangs around the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is hard to recall. It might have been at a friend's drive in Upper Church Village, or rushing outside the local primary school at the school run.
What it means: a little spilled about the filler does no harm to your engine. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank would be pulled in by starting the car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case.
Next: assume it got in, and keep the motor off. Call us and explain what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out clean than drain one that has already been run.
Rhydyfelin: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens identically, whichever the situation. Forecourt, driveway, Hawthorn Inn's car park or a road beside Arthur's Gym — our van comes to the car, and three questions follow: which fluid, what amount, and if it ran. Over the phone, before anything else, you hear our quote, and those replies decide the work too.
Emptying that tank comes first, followed by a careful flush — more vital with urea than with petrol, because crystals and corrosion will not go on their own, however long you wait. Clean diesel goes in after the filter is flushed or replaced, and the car is then tested. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive.
Last, our technicians start the car. We confirm it runs correctly on new diesel before leaving. If it's caught early, the vehicle very rarely has permanent damage, and the whole job happens where it is. Payment comes on the day, never upfront. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Check your insurance before we're en route: cover for misfuelling is included in many policies.
About Rhydyfelin, for a moment
Rhydyfelin is a suburban area in Rhondda Cynon Taf, situated near the River Taff at an elevation of 64 metres. Rhydyfelin lies close to the nearby communities of Hawthorn, Treforest, and Glyntaff, and is approximately 9 miles from Cardiff. Rhydyfelin has a mix of housing types, with terraced housing being predominant in the area. Rhydyfelin is part of the wider Cardiff urban area, with the city centre easily accessible from the suburb.
AdBlue drains about Rhydyfelin and across Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhydyfelin is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the towns near it too, Treforest and Glyntaff among them, across the CF postcode area. Quickest of all: a CF37 5 postcode to show where you stand.
Centre of Rhydyfelin or a lay-by near Coed Craig-lwyd: either way it sits, your car doesn't need to shift an inch for us. Draining happens right there. Awkward to pin down? By University of South Wales Art Collection Museum or a border? Checking beats assuming, so ring.
Your scenario, summed up
Motor never started: phone, and leave it alone. Run by now: stop, switch down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest, within Rhydyfelin or wherever in Rhondda Cynon Taf.