Golden Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, if your motor has not run, it's emptied and fully rinsed where your car sits around Golden Hill. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many newer diesels around Orange Gardens, as well as Golden Hill, run on two fluids; the motor takes only your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together under one flap. Topping up the diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. The AdBlue side is filled 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 the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Golden Hill: how it happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Golden Hill Road, or on the way home in the car park at Watermans Arms.
Then the vehicle is strange. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have 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 tip once it has started. Green or the heart of Golden Hill: it takes the same few seconds in both.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Grove or a forecourt around Golden Hill.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many vehicles mark what belongs in each filler right there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Pembroke? Ask whoever drove the vehicle last before you set off, not when the light goes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
On the day the warning appears — wherever you are across Pembrokeshire — a routine to follow.
- Pull in somewhere level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Olivers View.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where the two sit under a flap, make sure it's shut before the bottle comes up.
- Finish once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; until then, pour slowly through its own spout.
- Shut the cap, and check again — confirm the diesel cap stayed closed the whole time. Only then, start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Leave out stage five entirely.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Golden Hill?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the Asda, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive in Golden Hill.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. On the M4, under 50 miles from Golden Hill, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards St Davids, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Golden Hill.
When we turn up in Golden Hill, what occurs?
By the local primary school, near St Mary's Church or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — which fluid, which quantity, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. On the call itself, you are told the price — ahead of dispatch.
Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system rinsed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if needed — clean diesel goes in, and then the vehicle is tested. Before we go, our engineers start the car and confirm that it's running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Golden Hill itself
Golden Hill is a suburban area in Pembrokeshire, situated on the coast of Wales at an elevation of 31 metres. Golden Hill lies near several nearby places, including Green, Pembroke, and Kingsbridge, and is approximately 20 miles from the city of St Davids. Golden Hill is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Golden Hill is also relatively distant from major urban centres, with London being around 206 miles away.
AdBlue drains round Golden Hill, and Pembrokeshire beyond
Pembroke and Kingsbridge are among the places around Golden Hill, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout SA postcodes. Give a postcode beginning SA71 4, and the van gets there fastest.
Moving the car is not needed. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Pembroke Town Hall, a lay-by on the way to Holyland Wood, a driveway. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Pembroke Museum.
The short version for Golden Hill motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same, leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it stands, anywhere around Pembrokeshire.