Ystrad: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine turned over since the AdBlue got in? This one question settles nearly everything about what comes next. Anywhere your car is — Pontygwaith, Ystrad — don't start an engine that has not been started yet. Leave your motor and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103; it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Ystrad. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A bigger job, then, but the identical first move.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Rhondda Cynon Taf it happened.
On a Ystrad forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Imagine it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the filler you took off was not the correct one. Be it Shell, Asda or anywhere else in Ystrad, the situation is the same.
What it means: this is the ideal place to find out. Still inside your tank, and nothing pulled through: that's where the AdBlue sits.
Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Get the staff to lend a hand rolling it to a bay, hold on to the receipt, then ring us from there. If it cannot 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 Ystrad drive?
On your dash, a warning had shown for days. 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. Driveways close to Danycoed see it as much as anywhere.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of the tank sits where AdBlue stays, since it won't blend with diesel — and a night going by changes nothing of the difference.
What to do: leave the keys inside the house so nobody moves the car in the morning. Then call. Out in Llwynypia or here in Ystrad, the drain happens on your drive. Our pumping kit runs quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
On the road around Ystrad with AdBlue in a diesel
You filled up, set off, and a mile or two later the motor began to run unevenly, smoke, lose power or light up the dashboard. It might have been driving to Cardiff, under 25 miles away, or just along Danygraig.
What it means: the system has sucked the AdBlue in. Through your filter, along the pipework, and — the more the distance — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. Every restart, like every mile, pushes it deeper.
What to do: pull over where it's safe and switch off. On the M4, under 10 miles from Ystrad, that means the next exit, not the services further on. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear itself. Phone us and say how far you drove.
AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car
You've just driven this car a week. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel filler, which you didn't know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you happen to be in Rhondda Cynon Taf, every driver could slip up.
What it means: the same as the scenarios above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Work on your vehicle often requires the owner's go-ahead under hire or company agreements.
Your move: hire firm or your fleet manager first, us next, since sorting it early cuts time. If you're stuck in the car park outside Ystrad Rhondda, or by Ystrad Old Age Pensioners Association, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off.
Unsure about AdBlue in the diesel tank around Ystrad?
Sometimes the honest answer is "I think so". Which cap was taken off, you cannot recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. Maybe it happened in a hurry at the school gates at the local primary school, or on a friend's drive in Stanleytown.
What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no harm to the engine. AdBlue inside your diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in that tank, turning on your car would draw it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either.
Do this: act as if it got in, and never start the engine. Inspecting a tank that turns out clean is better than emptying one once it's been run — so ring and describe to us what you saw.
What each AdBlue drain in Ystrad has in common
Each situation gets the same start to the work. Forecourt, driveway, Ystrad Rhondda Rugby Club's car park or a street beside St Stephen's Church — the van reaches your vehicle, and three questions come next: which liquid, what amount, and if it has run. Those answers determine the work, and you get the price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Then your tank is emptied and the 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 renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of the car. The majority of unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers get there.
Our technicians fire it up at the end. Before we go, it is tested to confirm it runs smoothly on new diesel. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and when it is caught soon, long-term damage is very uncommon. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Ystrad, briefly
Ystrad is a suburban area in Rhondda Cynon Taf, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 174 metres. Ystrad lies near the communities of Llwynypia, Penrhys, and Gelli, and is approximately 16 miles from Cardiff. Ystrad has a population of around 1977 people, predominantly living in terraced housing. Ystrad is located in a region of south Wales, within commuting distance of major cities.
AdBlue drains across Rhondda Cynon Taf, Ystrad included
Penrhys and Gelli have the identical vans as Ystrad, a residential suburb, along with further towns throughout CF postcodes. A postcode starting CF41 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Whether the vehicle is on a lay-by on the way to Gelligaled Park or in a car park in the middle of Ystrad, it does not need to shift. Where it sits, that's where it is cleared. Phone and check instead of guessing if you're by St Stephen's Church Hall, near a border, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
In one line: your scenario
Where it has not run, phone then keep it off. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Ystrad and anywhere around Rhondda Cynon Taf on 0333 366 0103.