Bryncethin: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your motor and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Bryncethin. Here in advance? Then what follows covers how it comes about and what to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Not one liquid but two: that's how plenty of newer diesels near Bryncethin and Cymdda run, with diesel for the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Every tank has one filler of its own. 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. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bryncethin: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the vehicle, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off A4061, or outside Masons Arms on the way home that evening.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
Nothing halts the tip after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Bryncethin or out in Bryncoch.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in Sarn or a forecourt in Bryncethin.
- Position can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- On many cars, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors show which belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Ask as you pick up a rental or fleet car — at Sarn's car park, perhaps — not once the warning appears.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
When the light comes on, wherever across Bridgend, follow this routine.
- Switch off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and not rushed beside Rowan's Lane at the roadside.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look again that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Step five is off limits.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Bryncethin?
Short order, then. Top of that: the engine stays off. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
Ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Welcome Break, the Sainsbury's or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Bryncethin.
Already run? Stop when it is safe, then turn off. On the M4, under a mile from Bryncethin, that means the next junction. About how far did it go? Hopping across Bryncethin is smaller a job than a trip of under 25 miles towards Swansea, so say.
Bryncethin: what happens when our engineers turn up
Wherever your car has stopped, whether outside the local primary school, near Ynysawdre Swimming Pool and Fitness Centre or at home, the van travels to it. Which fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the answers set both work and quote. On the call itself, you hear the quote — before anything else.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system purged thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out unaided. Hence it matters more. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before leaving, our technicians start the car and check that it's running smoothly.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Bryncethin itself
Bryncethin is a village situated on the riverside in Bridgend, Wales, with an elevation of 67 metres above sea level. Bryncethin lies near several smaller communities, including Bryncoch, Abergarw, and Brynmenyn, and is located approximately 16.8 miles from Swansea. Bryncethin has a population of around 1844 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Bryncethin is also within commuting distance of major cities, being around 147.9 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Bryncethin and across Bridgend
Bryncethin is a village, and the vans that cover it also work the places near it, Abergarw and Brynmenyn among them, across the CF postcode area. Give a postcode that starts CF32 9, and the van arrives quickest.
The car stays where it is. Anywhere it stands — beside Ynysawdre Community Centre, in a layby heading to Coed Caehelyg, on a drive — that's where it is drained. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Bryn Road Chapel? By a county line? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
Bryncethin motorists: the short version
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it stands, anywhere around Bridgend: keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.