Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burry Port: Why It Occurs
Leave the engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where the vehicle stands around Burry Port, is usually all it needs when caught before the motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your engine — but many newer diesels driven round Burry Port and Llettyrychen carry a second fluid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is filled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Burry Port: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a driveway off Old Tramway before work, or in the car park outside Coasting Pilot Inn on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second factor: a new vehicle.
A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, once begun, keeps on. It's seconds, be it out in Dyfatty or right in the heart of Burry Port.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt around Burry Port or a driveway over in Furnace. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- Cannot see it next to the diesel inlet? Then look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the handbook 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 outside Pembrey & Burry Port.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning appears — anywhere you are in Carmarthenshire — a simple routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Bridge Street.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've found your 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 that tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through its own spout.
- Only then, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
Burry Port: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
The staff at Chivers Corner, Asda or another forecourt will usually help to push the car away if you ask. On your own drive around Burry Port? So your car stays where it is.
Where your engine has run already, stop safely and switch the car off. On the M4, under 10 miles from Burry Port, that means the next junction. Mileage matters — a short hop across Burry Port makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Swansea — so tell us roughly how far it went.
Burry Port: what happens when our technicians turn up
By the local primary school, near Amelia Earhart or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Those replies decide the work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run. On the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of anything else.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it matters here: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of it clears away on its own, however long it sits. Once the filter has been flushed — or replaced, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. We don't leave until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine hasn't run need roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive. No money in advance; you settle up that day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Burry Port, briefly
Burry Port is a coastal town in Carmarthenshire, situated on the south coast of Wales, with a population of around 5881 people. Burry Port has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are the most common, and the town is close to nearby places like Dyfatty and Achddu. Burry Port is located near the larger city of Swansea, about 13.8 miles away, and is at a low elevation of around 8 metres above sea level. Burry Port benefits from its coastal setting, with the sea playing a significant role in the town's character.
Burry Port and Carmarthenshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Over SA postcodes, the vans that cover Burry Port — a coastal town — work the surrounding spots too, Graig and Achddu among them. The van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting SA16 0.
Shifting the car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Memorial Park, a side street near Our Lady, Star of the Sea: we drain the car where it is. Awkward to explain, like the back of Burry Port Branch Library? By a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
In short, for Burry Port drivers
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it stands, wherever around Carmarthenshire: keep it off and call 0333 366 0103.