AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Caeffynnon: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Caeffynnon. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it takes place and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Not one liquid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Caeffynnon and Pwllhobi carry, with diesel feeding your motor. The exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two side by side behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the error happens.
Caeffynnon: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up at once.
Haste comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Fourth Avenue, or on the way home in the car park outside The Starling Cloud.
The old car's filler 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 car.
Lastly, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and after the tip begins, nothing halts it. Penparcau or the heart of Caeffynnon: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Caeffynnon or a driveway out in Trefechan. Seconds, that's all.
- Position misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it lives when the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Aberystwyth? Ask whoever drove it last before you set off, rather than once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
Anywhere in Ceredigion the light comes on, here is a routine for the day.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Third Avenue.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it does the trick.
- Both behind a single flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel filler is still shut before raising the bottle.
- Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap, then look once more — confirm the diesel cap remained closed the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That's where you stop. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Caeffynnon?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch it on. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Morrisons or the Texaco, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the petrol pump. At home in Caeffynnon? So the vehicle remains where it is.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M4, under 50 miles from Caeffynnon, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Caeffynnon is less work than a trip of over 50 miles towards Swansea, so say.
Caeffynnon: what happens when our engineers turn up
Outside the local primary school, close to Yr Hwb - The Hub or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it has run, because the replies decide this work and our price. The quote is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, certain metals are attacked, and nothing washes out unaided, no matter how long it sits. A test is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or changed if necessary. Your engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs properly, all before our engineers head off.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our engineers arrive, provided your engine has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling.
About Caeffynnon itself
Caeffynnon is a suburban area in Ceredigion, situated on the coast of Wales at an elevation of 23 metres. Caeffynnon lies near the communities of Penparcau, Southgate, and Llanbadarn Fawr, and is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Caeffynnon is located approximately 54 miles from Swansea, and its coastal setting influences its local environment.
AdBlue drains across Ceredigion, Caeffynnon included
Throughout SY postcodes, our teams that cover Caeffynnon — a residential suburb — work the surrounding places too, Llanbadarn Fawr and Southgate among them. Quickest of all: quote a SY23 1 postcode to our van.
No need to shift your car. Anywhere it sits — beside Welsh Martyrs Catholic Church, in a lay-by en route to Parc Kronberg, on a drive — that's where it is emptied. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Anne's? By a border? Asking beats guessing, so phone.
In short, for Caeffynnon drivers
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in Ceredigion.