Gellideg: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
Leave the engine and ignition off then call 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Gellideg. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers how it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of newer diesels in Cefn-coed-y-cymmer, as well as Gellideg, carry on two liquids; your engine takes just your diesel. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Plenty of motors have a single flap for both, while others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each filling station visit, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Gellideg?
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
On a drive off Swansea Road before work, or in the car park at The Lord Raglan on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you motors are second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap 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 once it has started. It's seconds, be it in Heolgerrig or bang in the heart of Gellideg.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Check these first, on a forecourt in Gellideg or a drive out in Winchfawr. A few seconds, no more.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many cars, the AdBlue one.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of cars. Check for it.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Merthyr Tydfil? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Wherever across Merthyr Tydfil the light comes on, this is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Heol Tai Mawr, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located your filler and read it.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. After that, start your car.
Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Step five is off limits.
Gellideg: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Brief order, then. Top of that: the motor remains unstarted. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Applegreen or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump. If you're on your own driveway in Gellideg, leave the car where it stands.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Gellideg sits under 25 miles from the M4; on it, take the next exit. A short hop across Gellideg is a smaller job than a run towards Newport, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when we get there in Gellideg
Anywhere your car has stopped, be it outside the local primary school, beside Trago or at home, the van travels to it. Both the work and the quote depend on three replies — which liquid, which amount, and whether it has run — so our technicians ask. That price is given on the call, ahead of any van leaving.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. That is why it counts more. The fuel filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Gellideg
Gellideg is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Merthyr Tydfil, with a mix of semi-detached housing and a population of around 2394 residents. Gellideg sits at an elevation of 234 metres, overlooking the surrounding landscape. Gellideg is located near other local communities, including Heolgerrig, Clwydyfagwyr, and Williamstown, and is approximately 20.7 miles from Newport.
AdBlue drains across Merthyr Tydfil, Gellideg included
Clwydyfagwyr and Williamstown are among the places around Gellideg, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout CF postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a CF48 1 postcode to the van.
The car doesn't need to shift. Anywhere it sits — beside Brithplace of Jennette Evelyn Evans, in a layby heading to Godre'r Coed Field, on a drive — that's where it gets drained. Awkward to explain, like the back of Cephas Free Presbyterial Church? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone.
Gellideg people: the short version
Always, the cap; then, the tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Merthyr Tydfil.