AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Darrenfelen: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Around Darrenfelen, catching it before the engine turns normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it happens and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
No single liquid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels near Darrenfelen and Llanelly Hill run, with diesel feeding your engine. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the mistake lives.
Darrenfelen: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Darenfelen, or on the way home in the car park at Jolly Colliers.
Unfamiliar motors are second, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Darrenfelen or out in Waunllapria.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Clydach or a forecourt in Darrenfelen.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Check for it.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Ebbw Vale Town, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever around Monmouthshire, follow this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of Waenllapria, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- Both behind one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side is still shut before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop just there. Never carry on to step five.
Darrenfelen: already put AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help roll your car away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Texaco, the Gulf or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Darrenfelen.
When the engine has been run already, stop safely then turn it off. The next exit means the place to leave when you're on the M4, under 15 miles from Darrenfelen. A short hop across Darrenfelen is a smaller job than a run towards Newport, under 25 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
When we get there in Darrenfelen, what takes place?
Outside the local primary school, near Llanelly Hill Community Centre or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, since the answers decide the work and the quote. No one sets off before you've heard the price over the phone.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Once the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. We don't go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor has not run take about half an hour after we are there. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Darrenfelen and where it is
Darrenfelen is a village in Monmouthshire, situated on the banks of a river in a picturesque area of south Wales. Darrenfelen sits at an elevation of 344 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Darrenfelen is located near other small villages such as Waunllapria and Gellifelen, and is approximately 16 miles from the city of Newport.
AdBlue drains in Darrenfelen and across Monmouthshire
Throughout NP postcodes, our vans covering Darrenfelen — a village — work the surrounding places too, Llam-march and Gellifelen among them. Quickest of all: give a NP7 0 postcode to our van.
No need to shift the vehicle. Draining takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a street by Old Ironworks, or a lay-by on the way to Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Bugail Unig/Lonely Shepard, ring and ask instead of guessing.
The short version for Darrenfelen people
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, anywhere in Monmouthshire: switch it off then phone 0333 366 0103.