AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Blaenavon Junction: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, keep the ignition and engine off, and call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Blaenavon Junction. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many newer diesels on the roads round Blaenavon Junction and Upper Coedcae carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler on each tank. Some cars keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place both together behind one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Blaenavon Junction: how it happens
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up at once.
On a drive off Sycamore Road before work, or in the car park at Queen Victoria Inn on the way home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you vehicles come second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it goes in as readily, and once the tip starts, no part halts it. Whether it happens in Forge Side or the middle of Blaenavon Junction, it's the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Rifle Green or a forecourt in Blaenavon Junction.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to your diesel inlet? Then look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Abergavenny.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever it is across Torfaen — a simple routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Rowan Way.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It seems daft. It works.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, shut the cap and check again that the diesel cap never came off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Stage five stays out.
Blaenavon Junction: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Don't start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Gulf, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Blaenavon Junction.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next junction is the place to leave when you are on the M4, under 15 miles from Blaenavon Junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newport, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Blaenavon Junction.
When we turn up around Blaenavon Junction, what occurs?
Wherever your car came to rest, whether outside the local primary school, beside Mine cart or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Both the work and our price depend on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so we ask. That price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. After the filter is flushed — or renewed, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and check that it is running correctly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the motor has not run take about half an hour after we are there. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Blaenavon Junction, briefly
Blaenavon Junction is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Torfaen, with a mix of terraced housing and a population of around 3462 residents. Blaenavon Junction sits at an elevation of 324 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Blaenavon Junction is located near several nearby places, including Forge Side, Middle Coedcae, and Blaenavon, and is approximately 13 miles from Newport. Blaenavon Junction forms part of the wider urban area in south Wales, with London around 128 miles to the east.
AdBlue drains in Blaenavon Junction and across Torfaen
As a residential suburb, Blaenavon Junction shares its vans surrounding areas — Middle Coedcae, Blaenavon — right across NP postcodes and the wider area beyond. A postcode starting NP4 9 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move your car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Blaenafon Town Centre Conservation Area, a side street near Mine Winch: our technicians drain it where it stands. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Hope Is Not Broken, close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Blaenavon Junction drivers
Tip nothing till you've read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, wherever in Torfaen: switch the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103.