Saundersfoot: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Everything turns on a single detail: whether your engine has been run since the AdBlue went in — far more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is in Saundersfoot itself or out in Sardis. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out just where the car stands around Saundersfoot. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening step.
Match what happened to a situation from the ones below, wherever in Pembrokeshire you are.
Saundersfoot forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only spot it while you're stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in hand. Whether the nearest petrol station, Lifestyle Express or somewhere else in Saundersfoot, the case is identical.
In short: no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: resist the urge to start it just to move away from the petrol pump. Have the attendants to lend a hand rolling it into a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us right there. Draining it there at the pump is fine if it cannot be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Saundersfoot drive?
For days the dash had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Right off High Street is no less likely from anywhere.
In short: if your car hasn't been driven since, it is nearly as good as spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the floor of that tank and stays put, however long the night.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then ring. Your drive is where it gets emptied, be it around Saundersfoot or Churchton. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Saundersfoot?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run roughly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Maybe heading to St Davids, under 50 miles away, or simply along Wogan Terrace.
Meaning? Your pump has taken the AdBlue up. It's been through the fuel filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into your high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Your move: stop somewhere safe, then turn the motor off. Saundersfoot lies under 50 miles from the M4; on it, pull off at the first junction instead of pressing on to the services. Starting it again to check achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Phone us and say how far you went.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
It is a motor you have had for a week. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers are next to each other here — not like your own vehicle, which has none or stores it in another spot. Throughout Pembrokeshire, nobody is immune.
Meaning? Whichever applies above applies here — run or unrun — and one extra stage. Work on the vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or fleet agreements.
Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. Keep the vehicle switched off while the reply arrives, even if you're waiting at the nearest station or near History of Coal Mining.
Saundersfoot: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
"I think so" is often the most honest as it gets. What cap came off, you cannot recall; but the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in The Valley.
The upshot: your engine isn't hurt by some AdBlue spilled on the outside. The diesel tank with AdBlue in it is another matter. 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.
Take it that it was put in, and don't start the engine. Ring us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Saundersfoot: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens identically, whichever your case. Filling station, driveway, Royal Oak Inn's car park or a street beside Saundersfoot Library — the van comes to the car, and three questions follow: which liquid, which amount, and whether it ran. Your price is given on the call, before a van leaves, and those answers set the work.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it's standard; with AdBlue it's essential, because crystals build up and certain metals corrode, and neither washes out unaided. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unrun vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment we get there.
Lastly, our technicians start the engine. Our check that it runs correctly on fresh diesel comes before our technicians head off. Our technicians do the whole job where your car is, and lasting damage is very unusual when it has been noticed early. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Saundersfoot, briefly
Saundersfoot is a small coastal village in Pembrokeshire, situated on the south coast of Wales at an elevation of around 14 metres. Saundersfoot has a population of approximately 855 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Saundersfoot is located near other small settlements such as Churchton and Rusheylake, and is within driving distance of St Davids, the smallest city in the UK. Saundersfoot sits on the Welsh coast, around 196 miles west of London.
AdBlue drains in Saundersfoot, and across Pembrokeshire too
Being a coastal village, Saundersfoot shares its vans with the nearby towns — Broadfield, Rusheylake — all the way through SA postcodes. Telling us a SA69 9 postcode pins you quickest of all.
No towing is required, whether stopped centrally in Saundersfoot or in a layby en route to The Plantation, and so keep it where it is. The van empties it where it stands. Tricky to explain? Close to Regency Hall or a county line? Asking is better than guessing, and so phone.
The one-line version
Engine never started: ring, and leave it alone. Run by now: stop, power down, phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Saundersfoot or anywhere across Pembrokeshire.