What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Rhydymwyn
What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the motor has been run since it got in. Anywhere your car is — Rhosesmor, Rhydymwyn — never run a motor that has not been started yet. Normally that means draining and thoroughly cleaning it right there around Rhydymwyn — so keep the key and motor off and ring 0333 366 0103. Already run? Pull over once you safely can, then turn it off. The job is bigger, yet the first stage is the same.
Compare your case to a situation from the list below, wherever around Flintshire you happen to be.
At the petrol pump around Rhydymwyn: AdBlue in a diesel
You're 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. It could be the Applegreen, or the Texaco, or a different station in Rhydymwyn.
Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it gets. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to run it — and so don't get back in. A few things: a shove into a bay with the attendants assisting, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. If it can't be moved, it can be emptied at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Rhydymwyn drive?
For days the dashboard had been warning you. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Drives close to Nant Alyn Road get it as much as any other street.
In short: if your vehicle hasn't been driven since, it's nearly equal to finding out at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of the tank and stays put, however long it waits.
Next: the keys in the house, so no one drives the car anywhere at breakfast. After that, ring. We drain the car on your driveway, whether that's in Rhydymwyn or out in Nant Alyn. Our pumping kit runs quietly enough that it won't wake the street at night.
Rhydymwyn: set off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the engine was turning roughly, blowing smoke, down on power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere on St Johns Park or else heading towards St Asaph — under 15 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Mileage sets how far it goes: filter and pipework first, then the injection pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: pull up somewhere safe, then turn the motor off. Leave by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M56, under 15 miles from Rhydymwyn. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Tell us hear the distance covered when you call.
Hire, lease or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank
It's a car you have had for a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere, and so nothing warned you the AdBlue inlet sits just beside your diesel. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Flintshire.
In short: an extra stage on top of the cases above, and those turn on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company contracts need the owner's approval for repairs.
What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's faster settled before our engineers arrive than after. If you are stuck in the car park outside Flint, or by St John's Church, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Rhydymwyn?
Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think it did. What cap was taken off, you can't recall; but the bottle feels lighter than it ought to, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by the filler. Possibly it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Mwynbwll.
What it means: a little spilled around the filler does no damage to your motor. Inside your diesel tank, however, AdBlue harms it. Any AdBlue in the tank will be sucked in by starting your car, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Do not fire it up. Call us and describe 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 each Rhydymwyn AdBlue drain
The job begins the same way, whatever your situation. Three things are asked once our engineers arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a road beside St Paul's Church or the car park at The Gwysaney Arms Hotel: the liquid, the amount, and if the motor has run. Your price comes over the phone, before a van leaves, and those replies set the work.
Then your tank is cleared and the system rinsed 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 doesn't rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel goes in after your filter is flushed or changed, and your car is finally checked. Never started? Then roughly half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Last, our technicians fire it up. With fresh diesel in, it runs while we make sure it is running properly, and then we leave. If it's caught soon, the car very seldom has long-term damage, and the entire job takes place where it is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Check your insurance while we're en route: misfuelling cover comes built into many policies.
About Rhydymwyn, briefly
Rhydymwyn is a small village in Flintshire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of 126 metres. Rhydymwyn has a population of around 522 people and is characterised by detached housing. Rhydymwyn is located near the villages of Nant Alyn, Hendre, and Cefn, and is approximately 11 miles from the city of St Asaph. Rhydymwyn sits in a rural area, with the nearest major city being some distance away, at 174 miles from London.
Rhydymwyn and Flintshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Rhydymwyn is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Hendre and Cefn among them, across the CH postcode area. Quickest of all: a CH7 5 postcode to show where you stand.
No towing is required, be it stopped centrally in Rhydymwyn or on a layby en route to Coed Graig, and so keep it put. Draining happens on the spot. Assuming won't help beside Wern Lead Mine, close to a border or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and check.
The one-line version
Engine not started: phone, and leave it alone. Run already? Pull over, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest whichever it is, across Rhydymwyn and Flintshire, on 0333 366 0103.