Bryngwyn: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Stop reading for a moment if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where the vehicle stands around Bryngwyn, is usually what it needs if caught before your engine runs. Here before the event? In that case what follows explains how it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels around Watford Park, as well as Bryngwyn, run on two liquids; the motor gets only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Some cars put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side under one flap. Diesel goes in at each forecourt visit, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally comes from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. Mistakes happen in the gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Bryngwyn
Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Heol Waun Waelod before work, or in the car park at The Moat House on the way home.
New-to-you motors are next, as well. Rentals, new motors and company cars place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, keeps on. Whether it takes place in St Martins or the middle of Bryngwyn, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, on a forecourt around Bryngwyn or a drive over in Glenfield Estate. A few seconds, no more.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles show what belongs in each inlet just there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Aber.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Wherever around Caerphilly the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Not in a rush on the side of St David's Way, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off first.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Step five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Bryngwyn?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Keep the ignition off as well, since on many diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car clear of the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Texaco, the BP or anywhere else. If you are on your own drive in Bryngwyn, leave it where it is.
Already run? Stop when it's safe, then turn off. Bryngwyn sits under 3 miles from the M4; on it, use the first exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Bryngwyn is smaller a job than a run of under 10 miles to Cardiff, and so say.
What takes place when we arrive around Bryngwyn
Anywhere the car has stopped, be it by the local primary school, near Caerphilly Miners' Centre for the Community or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Which liquid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask since those answers set the work and quote. That price comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before our engineers go.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour once our technicians get there, as long as your motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Bryngwyn, for a moment
Bryngwyn is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Caerphilly, with a mix of semi-detached housing and local amenities. Bryngwyn sits at an elevation of 133 metres, close to the nearby communities of St Martins and Bondfield Park. Bryngwyn is located near the city of Cardiff, which is approximately 6.5 miles away. Bryngwyn has a population of around 3739 residents, living in a predominantly semi-detached housing stock.
AdBlue drains round Bryngwyn, and Caerphilly beyond
Being a residential suburb, Bryngwyn has the same vans as surrounding areas — Bondfield Park, Denscombe — all the way through CF postcodes and the wider area around them. Quickest of all: quote a CF83 1 postcode to our van.
No need to move the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St Martin's Church, a lay-by on the way to Caerphilly Golf Club, a drive. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Wesley Methodist Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Bryngwyn drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Caerphilly: keep the car off and call 0333 366 0103.