AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Eglwys-Brewis: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Around Eglwys-Brewis, catching it before your engine turns normally leaves a drain and a full flush where it stands. 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 does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
No single fluid but two: that is how plenty of newer diesels around Eglwys-Brewis and St Athan run, with diesel for your motor. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh them, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others place the two together behind one flap. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. That gap is where the mistake lives.
Eglwys-Brewis: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Eglwys Brewis Road, or heading home in the car park outside Moonshine.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as readily, and once the tip begins, no part stops it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Eglwys-Brewis or out in Picketston.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Eglwys-Brewis or a drive out in Castleton Park. Seconds, that's all.
- Check the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors show what goes in each inlet right there.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Llantwit Major.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
The day the light comes on, wherever around The Vale of Glamorgan, use this routine.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Pinewood Square.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish when your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using its own spout.
- Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Leave out stage five entirely.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Eglwys-Brewis?
The short order of things, starting with not starting your engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of that tank, just where the fuel is taken from.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the another forecourt nearby, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Eglwys-Brewis.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. Come off the M4 — under 10 miles out of Eglwys-Brewis — at the next junction. About how far did it go? Crossing Eglwys-Brewis is smaller a job than a run of under 15 miles to Cardiff, so say.
Our arrival around Eglwys-Brewis, and what happens next
Anywhere the vehicle has stopped, whether outside the local primary school, near St Brice's Church or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Those answers determine this work and our price, and so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run. You hear that quote on the phone, before anybody heads out.
Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. Filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a test of your vehicle. We don't go until it has been started and is running properly.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run need about half an hour once we arrive. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Eglwys-Brewis
Eglwys-Brewis is a small village in The Vale of Glamorgan, situated on the coast of Wales at an elevation of 46 metres. Eglwys-Brewis lies near the villages of Picketston, Beggars Pound, and Flemingston, and is approximately 11.8 miles from Cardiff. Eglwys-Brewis has a population of around 954 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Eglwys-Brewis is also within commuting distance to major cities, being 142.2 miles from London.
AdBlue drains in Eglwys-Brewis and across The Vale of Glamorgan
Beggars Pound and Flemingston are among the towns around Eglwys-Brewis, a coastal village, that the same teams cover, over CF postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a CF62 4 postcode for our van.
Moving the vehicle is not necessary. We drain it where it is — a side street near South Wales Aviation Musuem, a lay-by on the way to St Athan Golf Club, a driveway. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Athan Community Centre? By a border? Checking beats guessing, and so phone.
The short version for Eglwys-Brewis drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, wherever across The Vale of Glamorgan: keep the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103.