AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bro Rhythallt: How It Happens and How to Stop It
Keep your motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, if your engine has not run, it is drained and thoroughly flushed where the vehicle is around Bro Rhythallt. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many modern diesels driven around Bro Rhythallt and Penisar Waun carry a second fluid too. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of motors have a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each filling station call-out, again and again. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bro Rhythallt: how it occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
Haste follows from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Bro Rhythallt, or on the way home in the car park outside Penbont.
The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: a strange car.
A spouted bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, keeps on. It takes seconds, whether out in Pont-Rhythallt or right in the centre of Bro Rhythallt.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Waun or a forecourt around Bro Rhythallt, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- On many cars, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show what belongs in which inlet just there.
- The handbook says where it is if the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Llanfairpwll? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere across Gwynedd the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Rhes Rhythallt.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located the filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop once your tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly using the own spout.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Bro Rhythallt already?
Do not start the motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Keep the ignition off as well, since on many diesels it by itself runs your fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
At a forecourt — Essar, Texaco or another — the attendants will normally help roll your car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Bro Rhythallt.
Already started? Pull over once it is safe, then switch off. Bro Rhythallt sits under 50 miles from the Moreton Spur; on it, take the first exit. About how far did it go? Crossing Bro Rhythallt is smaller a job than a run of under 10 miles to Bangor, so tell us.
Bro Rhythallt: what takes place when our engineers get there
The van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, beside Capel Tan-Y-Coed, or by the local primary school. What fluid went in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those replies set both work and quote. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
The system is then purged thoroughly, after the tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after we arrive, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once the job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Bro Rhythallt and where it is
Bro Rhythallt is a small suburban area in Gwynedd, situated on the coast of north Wales, with nearby settlements including Pont-Rhythallt and Llanrug. Bro Rhythallt sits at an elevation of around 110 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Bro Rhythallt is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the local architectural style. Bro Rhythallt is located near the city of Bangor, which is approximately 5.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Gwynedd, Bro Rhythallt included
Llanrug and Cwm-y-glo are among the towns near Bro Rhythallt, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over LL postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting LL55 4.
The car does not need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Parc Pwll Moelyn, a side street near Glascoed Ancient Village: our engineers drain it where it sits. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Glyn Arthur Round Cairn and Stone Circle.
Bro Rhythallt drivers: the short version
Pour nothing until you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Gwynedd.