AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Tircanol: What Now?
One thing matters most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is whether the engine has run afterwards. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether your car is around Tircanol itself or out in Llanlleian-wen. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where your car sits in Tircanol. Pull over the moment it is safe then turn off, if it has been run. It's a bigger job, though stage one does not change.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever in Swansea it happened.
At the pump around Tircanol: AdBlue in a diesel
The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just spot it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. Whether Asda, BP or anywhere else in Tircanol, the situation is identical.
In short: there is no better spot to be to discover it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
Your move: keep out of the driver's seat, even if the queue needs clearing. Phone us from the forecourt once the vehicle is in a space — the staff will lend a hand to push it — then save the receipt. If it cannot be moved, it can be cleared at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Tircanol drive?
On the dash, a reminder had shown for days. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Driveways near Cwrt Cilmeri see it as much as anywhere.
In short: if the vehicle hasn't moved since, it is almost as good as finding out at the pump. As it is reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles low in the tank and stays. A night parked changes nothing.
Next: stop an early-morning move by keeping the keys indoors, then ring us. Your drive is where it is drained, be it in Tircanol or Cwm-felin-fach. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house after dark.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel around Tircanol?
Topped up, pulled away, and before long the motor was turning roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Anywhere on Cwm Arian or on the road towards Swansea — under 5 miles away.
Meaning? The fuel pump has sucked the AdBlue in. It has been through your filter and the fuel lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the fuel injectors. More driving, more restarts: deeper it travels.
Next: pick a safe spot, pull in, and switch the engine off. Services farther on are too far: from the M4, under a mile out of Tircanol, take the first junction. Starting it again to check gets nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Tell us know the mileage covered as you ring.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You have had the car hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, since your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are in Swansea, any motorist can be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on your car.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us next, because sorting it early saves time. Stuck near Seion Newydd Chapel or at Llansamlet till the firm replies, your vehicle remains switched off the whole time.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, around Tircanol
Occasionally the honest answer is "I think so". The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Ynysforgan.
In short: spillage round your filler leaves your motor unharmed. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. Any AdBlue in your tank will be sucked in by firing up the vehicle, and the start wouldn't settle which it is in any case.
Take it that it was put in, and never turn your engine. Inspecting a tank that proves clean beats emptying one once it has been run — so ring and describe to us what you saw.
Tircanol: what each AdBlue drain has in common
Every case gets the same opening to the work. We come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at The Red Lion Inn or a side street close to Morriston Library, and ask three things: what got in, about how much, and if your engine has run. Over the phone, before anything else, you are told the quote, and those answers shape the work too.
A thorough flush comes after this drain. With petrol it is routine; with AdBlue it is crucial, because crystals form and some metals corrode, and neither washes out unaided. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unrun cars are a half-hour job from the moment our engineers arrive.
Starting it comes at the end. We check it runs correctly on new diesel before we leave. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and if it's spotted quickly, permanent damage is very uncommon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Dig out your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling comes included in many policies.
About Tircanol, for a moment
Tircanol is a small locality situated on the riverside in Swansea, with an elevation of around 12 metres above sea level. Tircanol is located near several nearby places, including Cwm-felin-fach, Morriston, and Pen-rhiw-forgan, and is approximately 3.6 miles from the city of Swansea. Tircanol has a population of around 895 people and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing.
AdBlue drains around Tircanol, and across Swansea too
Morriston and Pen-rhiw-forgan get the same teams as Tircanol, a small village, along with other places over SA postcodes. Quickest of all: a SA6 6 postcode to show your location.
Parked heading to Swansea Vale Local Nature Reserve, or right in the centre of Tircanol, the car stays put — there is no need to shift it anywhere. Wherever it stands, that is where it is cleared. Tricky to pin down? By Bethania Chapel or a county line? Checking is better than guessing, and so ring.
Your situation, in one line
If it has not run, ring and leave it that way. Whatever case applies, Petrol in Diesel takes over the rest on 0333 366 0103, throughout Swansea and in Tircanol — once you pull over, switch off and phone, if it's run.