AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Mount Pleasant: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
Stop here for a moment if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Usually, if the engine hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully rinsed where your vehicle sits around Mount Pleasant. Not happened yet? Further down, the page explains the reasons it occurs and the how to prevent it for good.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
No single fluid but two: that's how many modern diesels near Mount Pleasant and Cimla carry, with diesel for the motor. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
There's a filler for each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the pump happens all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think which filler to use. The slip lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank occur in Mount Pleasant?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Wallace Road, or on the way home in the car park outside Pensylvania.
Next, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — because a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
No part halts 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. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Pencaerau or right in the heart of Mount Pleasant.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around Mount Pleasant or a driveway out in Neath. A few seconds, that's all.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue ones are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not.
- Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Neath.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
When the light goes on, anywhere across Neath Port Talbot, use this routine.
- Switch off once parked — level ground, engine stopped, and not in a rush beside Bowden Road on the verge.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you've located the filler and read it.
- The diesel cap remains on. Where the two share a flap, make sure it's closed before the bottle comes up.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Leave out step five altogether.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Mount Pleasant?
Brief list, then. Top of it: the motor remains off. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of that tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Esso, Morrisons or another — the staff will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. At home in Mount Pleasant? So the car remains where it is.
Already run? Stop once it is safe, then turn off. Mount Pleasant lies under 3 miles from the M4; on it, take the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Swansea, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Mount Pleasant.
When we get there around Mount Pleasant, what occurs?
The van reaches the car wherever it stopped — your own drive, near Friends And Neighbours Centre, or by the local primary school. Which fluid went in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the answers decide the work and quote. No one sets off until you've heard our quote over the phone.
The fuel system is then flushed thoroughly, after the tank is emptied. More than with petrol, it matters here: crystals form, some metals are attacked, and none of that clears out unaided, no matter how long it sits. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of your vehicle. Then our technicians start the car and check it runs correctly before we go.
If the motor hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Mount Pleasant and where it is
Mount Pleasant is a suburban area in Neath Port Talbot, situated near the coast and approximately 6 miles from Swansea. Mount Pleasant has a relatively low elevation of 49 metres and is characterized by predominantly terraced housing. Mount Pleasant is close to nearby places such as Pencaerau, Melincryddan, and Penrhiwtyn, and is part of the larger urban area surrounding Swansea.
AdBlue drains around Mount Pleasant and across Neath Port Talbot
Melincryddan and Penrhiwtyn are among the towns around Mount Pleasant, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout SA postcodes. Fastest of all: quote a SA11 1 postcode for the van.
Your car remains put. Wherever it stands — beside St. Catherine's Community Rooms, in a layby heading to Mount Pleasant Park, on a drive — that is where it is cleared. If you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Melin Community Trust, ring and ask rather than guessing.
For Mount Pleasant drivers, the short version
Pour nothing until you've read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave it off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Neath Port Talbot.