Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bargod: Why It Happens
Pause reading a minute when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Bargod. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it does not.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel feeds your motor — but plenty of current diesels seen about Bargod and Markham carry another fluid too. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Separate tanks, different fillers. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. It is in that gap that the slip happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs around Bargod
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a driveway off Upper High Street before work, or in the car park at The Square Royale on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, keeps on. It takes seconds, be it in Aberbargoed or right in the centre of Bargod.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Cwmsyfiog or a forecourt in Bargod.
- Position can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the flap and check for a label — many vehicles show what belongs in which inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Bargoed, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Caerphilly that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of High Street.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Step five is out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bargod?
Brief list, then. First: the motor stays unstarted. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, because AdBlue sinks to the base rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Morrisons, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. Your own drive around Bargod is where it should stay.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M4, under 15 miles from Bargod, that means the next exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newport, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Bargod.
Bargod: what takes place when we arrive
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it by the local primary school, near Bargoed Cenetaph War Memorial or at home, our van travels to it. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since the replies set both work and quote. During the call itself, you hear our price — before dispatch.
Then your tank is drained and your system rinsed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. That is why it counts more. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Next our engineers fire it up and confirm it runs properly before we leave.
Unstarted cars usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Bargod itself
Bargod is a town in Caerphilly, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of 199 metres. Bargod has a mix of housing types, but terraced houses are predominant, reflecting the town's historical development. Bargod is located near other communities such as Aberbargoed, Gilfach, and Bedwellty, and is close to the city of Newport, which is 12.3 miles away. Bargod has a population of approximately 11273 people, making it a sizable urban centre in the region.
AdBlue drains about Bargod, and Caerphilly beyond
Throughout CF postcodes, the vans that cover Bargod — a riverside town — work the nearby spots too, Bedwellty and Gilfach among them. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting CF81 8.
There's no need to move your car. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St Gwladys Church, a lay-by on the way to Bargoed Park, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Bargoed Library.
The short version for Bargod drivers
Always, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere around Caerphilly.