Why It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Llanddinog
Stop reading a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where your car sits in Llanddinog, is normally what it needs when found before the motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your engine — but many newer diesels seen around Llanddinog and Treffynnon carry another liquid too. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: dosed into the fumes to clean it, from its own tank.
There is a filler on each tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the error lives.
Llanddinog: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
On a drive off Cart-Tws Bach before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part stops the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Whether it happens in Cerbid or the middle of Llanddinog, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Llanddinog or a driveway out in Brawdy. Seconds, that's all.
- Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't.
- On plenty of vehicles, the size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park at Fishguard & Goodwick? Check with whoever drove it 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 — anywhere it is in Pembrokeshire — a routine to use.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside A487 on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it does the trick.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Discover at the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Do not go on to stage five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Llanddinog?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the engine. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the the nearest petrol station or the Texaco, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the pump. Your own drive in Llanddinog is the place it stays.
Already run? Stop once it's safe, then turn off. Llanddinog sits under 50 miles from the M4; on it, use the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Llanddinog is less work than a trip of under 5 miles to St Davids, and so say.
Our arrival around Llanddinog, and what takes place next
Our van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, beside Tre-Maen-Hir Standing Stone, or by the local primary school. Both the work and our quote rest on three replies — what liquid, what quantity, and whether it has run — so we ask. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — before anything else.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once your tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals form, certain metals are attacked, and none of it clears away on its own, however long it is left. After your filter has been flushed — or renewed, if needed — clean diesel is added, and finally your car gets tested. Next our technicians fire it up and confirm it runs properly before we go.
Using pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need about half an hour once we are there. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Llanddinog and where it is
Llanddinog is a small coastal locality in Pembrokeshire, situated near the city of St Davids and overlooking the Welsh coastline. Llanddinog sits at an elevation of 78 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation in the area. Llanddinog is close to nearby places such as Cerbid, Llanhowel, and Treglemais, and is approximately 216.8 miles from London.
AdBlue drains round Llanddinog, and Pembrokeshire beyond
Llanhowel and Treglemais are among the places around Llanddinog, a coastal area, that the same vans cover, throughout SA postcodes. Give a postcode beginning SA62 6, and our van arrives fastest.
The vehicle remains where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Llanhowel Church, a lay-by on the way to Spite Moor, a driveway. Guessing doesn't help at the back of St. Teilo's Church, Llandeloy, on a boundary, or somewhere awkward to pin down; ring and check.
Llanddinog people: the short version
Before you tip, read the cap. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it stands, anywhere in Pembrokeshire: keep it off then call 0333 366 0103.