Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Boughrood: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, if your motor has not turned, it's drained and fully flushed where your car is around Boughrood. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel feeds the motor — but plenty of current diesels driven about Boughrood and Ponde hold another liquid as well. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean them, from a separate tank.
Every tank has a filler of its own. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more place the two side by side under one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen in Boughrood?
It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the vehicle, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Station Road, or at Bridge End Inn on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second factor: an unfamiliar vehicle.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the tip, once begun, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Boughrood or out in Llyswen.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Llanstephan or a forecourt around Boughrood, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many cars mark what goes in each inlet right there.
- The handbook says which it lives if the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Cilmeri? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Powys that is.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor off, and never rushed by River View Close at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Finish once that tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly through its built-in spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five stays off limits.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Boughrood?
Brief list, then. Top of it: your motor remains off. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
The staff at Asda, Oil4Wales or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the vehicle clear if asked. Your own drive around Boughrood is where it should stay.
Already started? Pull over when it's sensible, then turn off. On the M50, under 50 miles from Boughrood, that means the next exit. A short hop across Boughrood is a smaller job than a run towards Hereford, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Boughrood, and what happens next
Wherever your car has stopped, whether by the local primary school, beside Saint Cynog's Church or on your own drive, our van travels to it. The answers determine this work and our price, and so we ask what went in, about how much, and whether it's run. You hear that price by phone, before anybody heads out.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, once that tank is emptied. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. Then our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before we leave.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our technicians arrive, as long as your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Wrong-fuel cover is part of many insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Boughrood, for a moment
Boughrood is a village situated on the banks of the River Wye in Powys, Wales, with a mix of detached housing and rural scenery. Boughrood sits at an elevation of 96 metres, surrounded by rolling hills and countryside. Boughrood is located near the English border, approximately 23 miles from Hereford and 139 miles from London. Boughrood has a population of around 651 residents, living in a predominantly rural setting.
AdBlue drains around Boughrood, and Powys beyond
Boughrood is a village, and our vans that cover it also work the towns near it, Cwm-bach and Boughrood Brest among them, across the LD postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LD3 0.
Shifting the car isn't needed. Wherever it stands — beside Llyswen and Boughrood Community Hall, on a layby heading to Pen-lan Wood, on a drive — that is where it is emptied. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Llanstephan Church.
The short version for Boughrood motorists
Read the cap before you tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere in Powys, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave it off then call 0333 366 0103.