AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Glyncoed: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Keep the motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where your car stands in Glyncoed, is normally all it takes when found before the motor runs. Here in advance? Then what follows covers how it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one liquid but two: that is what plenty of newer diesels near Glyncoed and Beaufort run, with diesel for the motor. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of cars share a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. Mistakes happen in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs around Glyncoed
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off Cherry Close, or heading home in the car park outside The Welfare.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — since a rental car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
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. Whether it takes place in Newchurch or the middle of Glyncoed, it's the same few seconds.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Pont-y-Gof or a forecourt in Glyncoed, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- Can't see it beside the diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside your boot — the owner's manual will say where.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Ebbw Vale Town.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — anywhere it is across Blaenau Gwent — a routine to follow.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Fitzroy Avenue.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Leave out stage five altogether.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Glyncoed already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
At a forecourt — Tesco, Morrisons or another — the staff will normally help roll the car clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Glyncoed.
Already run? Pull over when it's sensible, then switch off. The next junction means the place to come off when you're on the M4, under 25 miles from Glyncoed. About how far did it go? Crossing Glyncoed is smaller a job than a trip of under 25 miles towards Newport, so say.
Our arrival around Glyncoed, and what occurs next
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, near Badminton Association Senior Citizen's Hall or on your own driveway. Both the work and the price rest on three answers — what fluid, which quantity, and if it's run — so we ask. During the call itself, you hear our quote — ahead of anything else.
Then that tank is cleared and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. After the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running smoothly.
If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling.
About Glyncoed itself
Glyncoed is a suburban area situated in the county of Blaenau Gwent, Wales, with a riverside setting and an elevation of 309 metres. Glyncoed lies near the communities of Newchurch, Ebbw Vale, and Carmeltown, and is approximately 16.7 miles from Newport. Glyncoed has a population of around 2841 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing.
AdBlue drains round Glyncoed, and Blaenau Gwent beyond
Ebbw Vale and Carmeltown are among the towns around Glyncoed, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout NP postcodes. A postcode starting NP23 5 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Cricket & Bowls Club, a lay-by on the way to Eugene Cross Park, a driveway. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Bethel Methodist Church.
Glyncoed motorists: the short version
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Blaenau Gwent.