Faerdre: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Faerdre, catching it before your motor runs usually leaves a drain and a thorough flush on the spot. Nothing happened yet? Below, the rest of the page explains the why it happens and the how to prevent it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds the engine — but plenty of newer diesels seen around Faerdre and Aber-Clydach carry another liquid as well. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on a lot of vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. Far less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
Faerdre: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Gellionnen Close, or heading home in the car park at Hebron Inn.
The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second factor: a strange motor.
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. Clydach or the heart of Faerdre: it is the same few seconds either way.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt in Faerdre or a driveway over in Graigfelen. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually do not.
- On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't find it next to the diesel filler? In that case look beneath the bonnet or in your boot — 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 outside Llansamlet.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Swansea that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Clos Ceri, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off properly.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It seems daft. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Find during the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Leave out step five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Faerdre?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the the nearest petrol station or the Tesco, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own driveway in Faerdre, leave it where it is.
Where the motor has run already, pull over safely and turn it off. The next junction means the place to leave if you're on the M4, under 3 miles from Faerdre. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Swansea, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Faerdre.
Our arrival in Faerdre, and what happens next
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, close to Bethel Evangelical Church or on your own drive. Which fluid got in, the amount, and if it ran: we ask since those replies set both work and quote. Nobody sets off before you've heard the quote over the phone.
Your system is then cleaned thoroughly, after the tank is cleared. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out unaided. That is why it counts more. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. The motor is started next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians go.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Faerdre, for a moment
Faerdre is a suburban area located on the riverside in Swansea, with an elevation of 46 metres above sea level. Faerdre sits approximately 5.8 miles from Swansea city centre and is surrounded by nearby places such as Clydach and Mount Pleasant. Faerdre has a population of around 4732 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Faerdre is situated in a convenient location, with easy access to local amenities and the city of Swansea.
Faerdre and Swansea: AdBlue drains across the area
Mount Pleasant and Upper Forge are among the towns near Faerdre, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over SA postcodes. A postcode starting SA7 9 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to shift the car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Graig-felen Plantation, a side street near Clydach Library: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Guessing won't help behind Canolfan Adnoddau Cymunedol Forge Fach, on a boundary, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for Faerdre drivers
First, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Swansea.