AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Croesyceiliog: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where the car stands around Croesyceiliog, is normally all it needs when found before your engine runs. Reading before the event? Then what follows explains why it comes about and what to prevent it ever happening.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Many current diesels on the roads round Croesyceiliog and Pontnewydd carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where a spray cleans the gas.
There is a filler on every tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on many cars. On others, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in your boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Croesyceiliog
Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up at once.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off North Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Upper Cock.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Llanyrafon or the middle of Croesyceiliog: it takes the same few seconds either way.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Southville or a forecourt around Croesyceiliog.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it instead of going by position.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Cwmbran, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Torfaen that is.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Brynhyfryd.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have located the filler and read the cap.
- The two behind one flap? Then confirm the lid on the diesel filler is still shut ahead of raising the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start your car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Never go on to stage five.
Croesyceiliog: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Brief list, then. Top of that: the motor remains off. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
The attendants at Morrisons, Texaco or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car away when asked. If you're on your own driveway in Croesyceiliog, leave the vehicle where it stands.
Already run? Stop when it's safe, then switch off. Leave the M4 — under 5 miles out of Croesyceiliog — at the next exit. Distance matters — a short hop across Croesyceiliog is a smaller job than driving under 5 miles towards Newport — so say roughly how far it went.
When our engineers turn up in Croesyceiliog, what occurs?
Our van reaches the car anywhere it has come to rest — your own drive, near Llanyrafon Methodist Church, or outside the local primary school. Which fluid got in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask since the replies set the work and price. The quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of that clears out unaided, however long it is left. Testing is at the end: before that, clean diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Then our technicians start it and confirm it runs correctly before leaving.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Croesyceiliog, briefly
Croesyceiliog is a suburban area in Torfaen, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 83 metres, with terraced housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Croesyceiliog lies close to the city of Newport, approximately 4.8 miles away, and is near other local places such as Llanyrafon and Cwmbran. Croesyceiliog has a population of around 3150 residents and is located near the Northville area. Croesyceiliog is also within commuting distance to major cities, with London being around 123.9 miles away.
AdBlue drains in Croesyceiliog and across Torfaen
Croesyceiliog is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Cwmbran and Northville among them, across the NP postcode area. A postcode starting NP44 2 gets our van to you fastest.
The car remains where it is. Wherever it stands — beside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a layby heading to Cwm-heron Wood, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. Awkward to explain, like the back of Ebenezer Evangelical Church? By a border? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
For Croesyceiliog people, the short version
Always, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Torfaen.