What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Three Crosses
Everything hinges on a single detail: whether your motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Anywhere your car is — Wern-olau, Three Crosses — don't start an engine that has not been started yet. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a proper flush plus a drain, carried out right where the car stands in Three Crosses. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Step one remains the same, even though the work grows.
Below: the cases our technicians meet, anywhere across Swansea. Choose yours.
On a Three Crosses forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, bottle still in hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the petrol pump. Anywhere around Three Crosses, then — Tesco, Esso, or somewhere else close by.
Meaning? Finding out on the forecourt is as good as it can be. Just the tank has AdBlue; no part beyond it has drawn any in.
Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — so do not get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll your car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. If it can't be shifted, it can be drained at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt.
Three Crosses, at home: AdBlue in the diesel tank
For days the dashboard had been nagging you. Bought a container, tipped it in at home, binned the empty — and at that point checked the cap a second time, after the fact. Right off Coed Lan is not different from any other place.
What it means: if you haven't driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that.
Your move: keys in the house, and so nobody takes the vehicle anywhere at breakfast. Then, ring. Poundffald or Three Crosses: wherever your drive sits, that is where it is cleared. Even at night, our pumps are quiet enough for a driveway.
Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Three Crosses?
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later your motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. Tirmynydd Road, perhaps, or the route to Swansea — a run of under 10 miles.
The point: the system has pulled AdBlue in already. It has been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure fuel pump and your injectors. More driving, more starts: deeper it travels.
Pull in somewhere safe — that's the first job — then turn everything off. Three Crosses sits under 5 miles from the M4; there, come off at the next junction rather than pushing on for the services. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. About how far did it gone? Say so as you phone.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
Seven days back, the car was new to you. Unbeknown to you, the AdBlue and diesel fillers sit next to each other here — unlike your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or keeps it in another spot. Throughout Swansea, no one is safe from it.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. The owner frequently has to sign off the work, under many hire and fleet agreements.
Do this: hire firm or fleet manager first, us second, because settling it beforehand cuts time. Stranded near Capel y Crwys or at Gowerton until someone replies, your vehicle stays turned off the whole time.
Unsure about AdBlue in your diesel tank around Three Crosses?
Honestly, the best answer might be that you think it did. Too light, the bottle; a trace of ammonia round the filler; no clear recollection of which cap. Look familiar? A hurried stop by the gates of the local primary school, or a call to a friend in Blue Anchor: either fit.
In short: a spill round your filler does your engine no harm. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in your tank, turning on your car would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not crank it. 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.
The common ground in each Three Crosses AdBlue drain
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Three questions come once our engineers arrive — on a forecourt, a driveway, a road by Gower Fresh Christmas Trees or the car park at The Joiners Arms: the liquid, the amount, and if it has been started. Those replies decide the work, and you get the price on the phone, before anyone sets off.
Then that tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally come the fuel filter, cleaned or replaced if necessary; clean diesel; and a check of the vehicle. The majority of unrun vehicles are a half-hour visit from the moment our technicians turn up.
We fire it up last. Our check that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before we head off. Our technicians do the whole job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very uncommon if it has been noticed early. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment that day, nothing in advance. Many policies cover misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over.
About Three Crosses itself
Three Crosses is a small village in Swansea, situated near the coast and approximately 5.6 miles from the city of Swansea. Three Crosses has a population of around 845 people and is characterised by detached housing. Three Crosses sits at an elevation of 109 metres, overlooking the surrounding countryside. Three Crosses is close to nearby places such as Poundffald, Fairwood, and Wernbwll.
AdBlue drains round Three Crosses and across Swansea
Fairwood and Wernbwll get the same vans as Three Crosses, a coastal village, along with further towns throughout SA postcodes. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts SA4 3.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Crwys Nature Reserve or in a car park in the middle of Three Crosses, it doesn't need to move. The drain is done right there. Awkward to explain? By Old School House or a county line? Checking is better than assuming, so phone.
Your situation, in one line
Unstarted? Keep the vehicle off then ring. Whatever case fits, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Swansea and in Three Crosses — once you pull over, turn off then phone, if it has run.