AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hopkinstown: Why It Happens and How to 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. Normally, when your engine hasn't run, it is drained and fully purged where the vehicle sits in Hopkinstown. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the reasons it happens and the how to avoid it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Not one liquid but two: that is what many newer diesels around Hopkinstown and Tir-y-dail carry, with diesel feeding the engine. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in at every filling station visit, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. It's in the gap that the error lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank happen in Hopkinstown?
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Lon Ger-Y-Coed before work, or in the car park outside the pub in the village on the way home.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip starts, nothing halts it. It takes seconds, be it in Pontamman or right in the heart of Hopkinstown.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Myddyn-fych or a forecourt in Hopkinstown, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you pick up a hire car or company car — at Ammanford's car park, perhaps — not when the warning comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Carmarthenshire that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Wernoleu Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap never opened off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Hopkinstown?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is sucked from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Tout's or the another forecourt nearby, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Hopkinstown.
Where your engine has run already, stop safely and switch the vehicle off. The next junction means the place to come off if you're on the M4, under 10 miles from Hopkinstown. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Swansea, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Hopkinstown.
Our arrival in Hopkinstown, and what happens next
The van comes to your car anywhere it stopped — your own drive, beside Amman Valley Leisure Centre, or outside the local primary school. What fluid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since the replies set both work and price. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Your engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before we go.
Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The equipment is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. Wrong-fuel cover is included in many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Hopkinstown, briefly
Hopkinstown is a suburban area situated on the banks of the River Amman in Carmarthenshire, with a mix of detached housing and local amenities. Hopkinstown sits at an elevation of 91 metres, close to the nearby towns of Pontamman, Ammanford, and Betws. Hopkinstown is located near the city of Swansea, which is approximately 12 miles away. Hopkinstown has a population of around 1274 residents.
AdBlue drains round Hopkinstown, and Carmarthenshire beyond
Throughout SA postcodes, the teams covering Hopkinstown — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, Betws and Ammanford among them. A postcode starting SA18 2 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle does not need to shift. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Betws Park, a side street close to Capel Newydd: our engineers drain it where it stands. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Christian Temple, ring and ask instead of assuming.
In short, for Hopkinstown drivers
Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it stands, wherever around Carmarthenshire: keep the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.