Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Llantilio Pertholey
Leave the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if the motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully rinsed where the vehicle is around Llantilio Pertholey. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it happens and the how to avoid it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Many modern diesels in Llwyn-du, as well as Llantilio Pertholey, carry on two fluids; the motor takes just your diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, where a spray treats the gas.
Different tanks, different fillers. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both together under one flap. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, week in, week out. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The error lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Llantilio Pertholey
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Hanratté Close before work, or in the car park at Crown & Sceptre on the way home.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Mardy or the heart of Llantilio Pertholey: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Look at these first, at a forecourt in Llantilio Pertholey or a drive out in Cantref. Seconds, that's all.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- On plenty of motors, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- Can't find it next to your diesel filler? Then look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook says where.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Abergavenny, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
On the day the warning comes on — anywhere it is around Monmouthshire — a simple routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Perry Close.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you've located your filler and read it.
- Both under a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip slowly through its own spout.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never came off.
Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Don't carry on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Llantilio Pertholey?
What follows is a short order of things, beginning with not starting the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel won't dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, right where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump if you're at a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the Esso or anywhere else. Your own drive in Llantilio Pertholey is the place it should stay.
Already run? Pull over when it is sensible, then switch off. The next junction means the place to come off when you are on the M4, under 25 miles from Llantilio Pertholey. A short hop across Llantilio Pertholey is a smaller job than a run towards Newport, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Llantilio Pertholey, and what takes place next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside the local primary school, near Trebencyn Park or on your own drive. We ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since those replies decide the work and the quote. That price comes over the phone, before any van leaves.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that clears away unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. Before leaving, our engineers fire it up and make sure that it's running correctly.
Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once we arrive, as long as the engine has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents your insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth checking your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About Llantilio Pertholey and where it is
Llantilio Pertholey is a small hamlet situated on the banks of a river in Monmouthshire, with a mix of rural and residential areas at an elevation of around 105 metres. Llantilio Pertholey lies near the communities of Mardy, Pantygelli, and Pen-y-Pound, and is approximately 17.5 miles from the city of Newport. Llantilio Pertholey has a population of around 962 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Llantilio Pertholey is located in a scenic area, with the Welsh countryside surrounding it.
AdBlue drains across Monmouthshire, Llantilio Pertholey included
Pantygelli and Pen-y-Pound are among the towns near Llantilio Pertholey, a rural hamlet, that the same teams cover, throughout NP postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a NP7 6 postcode for our van.
The vehicle remains where it is. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Tredilion Park, a lay-by on the way to Battery Plantation, a drive. If you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Tredilion Fruit Farm, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Llantilio Pertholey motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Monmouthshire.