Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lower Ochrwyth: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page down for now, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor hasn't run, it is emptied and thoroughly cleaned where the car is around Lower Ochrwyth. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to prevent it altogether.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Not one fluid but two: that's what many newer diesels around Lower Ochrwyth and Danygraig run, with diesel for your motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Each tank has its own filler. 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. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt visit, again and again. Rarely topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who has to stop and think which filler it needs. The slip lives in that gap.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Lower Ochrwyth
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Lower Ochrwyth before work, or in the car park outside The Grove on the way home.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second factor: an unfamiliar car.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Lower Ochrwyth or out in Upper Ochrwyth.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Be it a Lower Ochrwyth forecourt or a driveway over in Penrhiw, take a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it.
- The handbook shows which it is if the filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Risca & Pontymister, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
When the light comes on, anywhere around Caerphilly, follow this routine.
- Switch off after you park — level ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside A467 at the roadside.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have found your filler and read the cap.
- The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Find at step two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Leave out step five altogether.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Lower Ochrwyth?
Don't start the motor: that is where the short order of things starts. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Valero, the Tesco or somewhere else. If you're on your own driveway around Lower Ochrwyth, leave it where it stands.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. Come off the M4 — under 3 miles out of Lower Ochrwyth — at the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Newport, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Lower Ochrwyth.
Lower Ochrwyth: what occurs when we get there
By the local primary school, close to Ty Isaf Baptist Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, because those replies determine this work and the price. Nobody heads out until you have heard the quote over the phone.
The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is emptied. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. Hence it counts more. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of your car. Before leaving, we fire it up and check that it's running smoothly.
If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Lower Ochrwyth
Lower Ochrwyth is a locality situated on the banks of a river in Caerphilly, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Lower Ochrwyth lies at an elevation of 68 metres, close to the nearby city of Newport. Lower Ochrwyth is part of a wider area that includes neighbouring Upper Ochrwyth, Pontymister, and Ty-Sign. Lower Ochrwyth has a population of around 693 people, with many residents commuting to nearby Newport for work and amenities.
AdBlue drains across Caerphilly, Lower Ochrwyth included
Over NP postcodes, the vans covering Lower Ochrwyth — a small village — work the nearby places too, Ty-Sign and Pontymister included. Fastest of all: quote a NP11 6 postcode to our van.
Moving the vehicle is not needed. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Ty-Isaf Common, a side street close to Risca Youth Centre: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Risca War Memorial, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Lower Ochrwyth people
First, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere across Caerphilly.