Tyn-y-caeau: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
One thing matters most when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is if the motor has run afterwards. Over in Rhydding or here around Tyn-y-caeau, an unstarted motor should stay that way. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and engine both off. Across Tyn-y-caeau, such a case is typically drained and flushed where it stands. Where the engine has been run, pull in somewhere safe first, then switch it off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same.
Match your case to a situation from the list below, wherever in Neath Port Talbot you are.
On a Tyn-y-caeau forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only at this point, nozzle still in hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Anywhere in Tyn-y-caeau, then — Morrisons, Tesco, or anywhere else nearby.
In short: there is no better spot exists to discover it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in.
What to do: do not get back in and fire it up to clear the petrol pump. Have the staff to lend a hand pushing it into a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us right there. If it can't be moved, it can be drained at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt.
AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Tyn-y-caeau drive?
On the dash, a warning had been lit for days. Bought a bottle, poured it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap again, after the fact. Houses just off Hibbert Road are hit as much as anywhere else.
Put simply: if your car has not been driven since, it is nearly as good as finding out at the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep separate: the AdBlue drops to the base of the tank and remains put, however long the night.
Put your keys indoors overnight — otherwise someone may drive it off first thing — then call us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, be it in Tyn-y-caeau or Neath. Late-night empties outside a house are fine: the pumps are quiet.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Tyn-y-caeau?
Filled up, pulled away, and before long your motor was running roughly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up your dash. Anywhere along Gnoll Park Road or on the road towards Swansea — under 10 miles away.
The upshot: the system has drawn AdBlue in by now. Past the filter, along the lines, and — the further the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each restart, like every mile, carries it deeper.
Next: find a safe spot, pull in, then turn your motor off. Leave at the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M4, under 3 miles from Tyn-y-caeau. Don't restart the car to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Roughly what distance had it gone? Tell us as you phone.
A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank?
It is a car you have had for a week. On your own car, AdBlue is missing or elsewhere. On this one, the cap is right next to your diesel cap — news to you. Anywhere you happen to be in Neath Port Talbot, any driver can be caught.
The upshot: exactly as above, divided by if it ran, but with an added stage. Work on the vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or company terms.
Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. Stuck by The Gnoll or outside Neath until someone answers, the vehicle remains turned off throughout.
Not sure it was AdBlue in the diesel tank, Tyn-y-caeau?
Now and then, "I think so" is all anyone can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. It might have been at a friend's drive in Mount Pleasant, or rushing outside the local primary school on the school run.
Put simply: a spill round the filler does your engine no harm. The diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. You cannot tell which by turning the key, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Do this: act as if it got in, and never start the motor. Call us and describe what you saw; we would rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run.
Tyn-y-caeau: what every AdBlue drain has in common
Whatever the case, one start applies. Wherever your car is — The Greyhound's car park, a road by Neath Leisure Centre, a drive, a filling station — the van arrives and asks for the liquid, the quantity, plus if your motor has been run. Those replies settle this work, and you hear the price by phone, before anyone sets off.
AdBlue forms crystals and is corrosive to some metals in fuel systems, so it does not wash out unaided; that's why a full flush, after this drain, matters much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Fresh diesel goes in once the filter is flushed or changed, and the car is then checked. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there.
Starting the car comes at the end. Our engineers make sure it runs correctly on new diesel before leaving. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and when it is spotted soon, lasting damage is very uncommon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth knowing: many insurers include misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy while you wait pays.
About Tyn-y-caeau, for a moment
Tyn-y-caeau is a suburban area situated on the shores of a lake in Neath Port Talbot, with Tyn-y-caeau being close to the nearby towns of Neath and Llantwit. Tyn-y-caeau has a relatively low elevation of 13 metres above sea level, and Tyn-y-caeau is located near the city of Swansea, which is approximately 6.9 miles away. Tyn-y-caeau is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, with Tyn-y-caeau being home to a population of around 3413 people.
AdBlue drains around Tyn-y-caeau and across Neath Port Talbot
Llantwit and Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath get the same vans as Tyn-y-caeau, a residential suburb, along with other places over SA postcodes. The location is quickest from a postcode beginning SA11 3.
Centre of Tyn-y-caeau or a layby towards Victoria Gardens: either way it is, the vehicle never needs to shift at all for us. Wherever it sits, that's where it is emptied. If you're somewhere hard to explain, near Neath YMCA or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming.
In one line: your situation
Still unrun? Keep the vehicle that way then phone. Run by now: stop, power down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest, in Tyn-y-caeau or anywhere in Neath Port Talbot.