Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Clytha Park: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine has not turned, it's drained and thoroughly rinsed where the car is around Clytha Park. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest 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
Not one liquid but two: that's how plenty of modern diesels near Clytha Park and Baneswell carry, with diesel feeding the engine. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes.
There is a filler for each tank. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less often. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Clytha Park: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Clyffard Crescent before work, or in the car park at The Cellar Door on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand goes — yet a rental car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's a second thing: a strange car.
Nothing stops the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Stow Park or bang in the centre of Clytha Park.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, on a forecourt in Clytha Park or a drive over in Gold Tops. A few seconds, no more.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- On plenty of motors, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside your fuel flap: many cars carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it next to your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- The previous driver will know. Check as you collect a hire car or company car — at Newport (South Wales)'s car park, perhaps — not once the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere in Newport, use this routine.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, motor stopped, and never rushed by Caerau Road on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the car on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Skip stage five altogether.
Clytha Park: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Do not start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
If you are on a forecourt, whether it is the Asda or the Tesco, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Clytha Park.
Where the engine has been run by now, pull over somewhere safe then switch the car off. Clytha Park sits under a mile from the M4; there, take the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newport, under a mile away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Clytha Park.
Our arrival around Clytha Park, and what happens next
By the local primary school, near Church of Christ or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and our price rest on three answers — which liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so our technicians ask. The price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Then the tank is drained and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and finally your car gets tested. The motor is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before we leave.
If the motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Clytha Park, briefly
Clytha Park is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Newport in Wales, situated near the coast at an elevation of 52 metres. Clytha Park sits close to the city centre, approximately 0.4 miles from Newport, and is surrounded by other nearby places such as Stow Park and Caerau Park. Clytha Park is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock, reflecting the area's historical development patterns. Clytha Park is home to a population of around 7759 residents, according to approximate estimates.
AdBlue drains about Clytha Park, and Newport beyond
Being a residential suburb, Clytha Park shares its vans surrounding areas — St Woolos, Caerau Park — all the way across NP postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Fastest of all: quote a NP20 4 postcode to our van.
No need to move the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to St Mary Street Baptist Church, a lay-by on the way to The Shrubbery Conservation Area, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Cwtsh Arts Centre.
For Clytha Park people, the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Newport, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — so leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.