Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Miskin: Why It Happens
Leave your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Miskin. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of modern diesels around Mountain Ash, as well as Miskin, run on two liquids; the engine gets only the diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes.
Different tanks, different fillers. Many of motors share a single flap for the two, whereas some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each forecourt call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Miskin
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car 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 Jones Street before work, or in the car park at Mount Pleasant Hotel on the way home.
New-to-you motors come next, too. Hire cars, new motors and company motors put their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it 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. It's a few seconds, be it out in Newtown or bang in the heart of Miskin.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Penrhiwceiber or a forecourt in Miskin, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Many cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- A label inside the fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of vehicles. Look for it.
- The handbook shows where it is when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Penrhiwceiber? Ask whoever drove the car last before you set off, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere in Rhondda Cynon Taf the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Bush Road.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- The diesel cap stays on. Where both share a flap, confirm it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Miskin?
Short list, then. Top of that: the motor stays unstarted. Keep your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels it by itself starts your fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Texaco, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump. At home around Miskin? Then the car remains put.
Where the motor has been run already, stop safely then turn the vehicle off. The next junction is the place to leave if you are on the M4, under 15 miles from Miskin. Distance matters — a short hop across Miskin makes a smaller job than driving under 25 miles towards Cardiff — so say about how far it went.
Our arrival in Miskin, and what occurs next
Outside the local primary school, near Canolfan Pennar Community Hub or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. We ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, because those replies determine the work and our quote. During the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter cleaned or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; and then a check of the vehicle. Before we go, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it is running properly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which your engine has not run take roughly half an hour after our technicians are there. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and both are yours once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Miskin and where it is
Miskin is a suburban area situated on the banks of a river in Rhondda Cynon Taf, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Miskin sits at an elevation of 119 metres, near the communities of Perthcelyn and Darranlas. Miskin is located close to the major city of Cardiff, which is approximately 16 miles away. Miskin has a population of around 4789 people, living in a variety of housing types, predominantly terraced.
Miskin and Rhondda Cynon Taf: AdBlue drains across the area
Miskin is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the places around it, Perthcelyn and Darranlas among them, across the CF postcode area. Quote a postcode beginning CF45 3, and our van arrives fastest.
No need to shift the vehicle. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Gwynifor Park, a side street near Mountain Ash Library: our technicians drain the car where it is. Guessing won't help behind St Winifred's Church, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; phone and ask.
The short version for Miskin people
First, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it stands, anywhere around Rhondda Cynon Taf: switch it off then call 0333 366 0103.