AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pendre: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
Pause here a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the motor has not run, it's emptied and thoroughly flushed where your car is around Pendre. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the reasons it occurs and the ways to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads round Pendre and Llanfaes carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream to clean it.
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 your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Pendre: how it happens
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things lining up at once.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the 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 drive off Beech Grove before work, or in the car park at The George Hotel on the way home.
Next, your hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a hire car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one didn't.
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 after it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Pendre or out in Pontwilym.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Pendre forecourt or a drive over in Llanddew, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not.
- On many motors, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many cars carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside the nearest station? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, wherever across Powys, use this routine.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Parc Pendre.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it works.
- The two behind one flap? Then confirm the lid on your diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then look again — confirm your diesel cap remained shut the whole time. After that, start the vehicle.
Discover at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Skip step five entirely.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Pendre already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Keep your ignition off too, since on plenty of diesels it by itself starts the pump. Filling up with diesel won't thin it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where the fuel is drawn from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Gulf or the Morrisons, ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump. On your own drive in Pendre? So the vehicle remains where it is.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the motor has already run. The next exit means where to leave when you are on the M4, under 50 miles from Pendre. A short hop across Pendre is a smaller job than a run towards Hereford, under 50 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
Pendre: what occurs when we turn up
Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by the local primary school, near Brecon Cathedral or on your own drive, the van comes to it. What liquid got in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask since those replies decide the work and price. During the phone call itself, you are told the price — ahead of dispatch.
Then your tank is emptied and the system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. The filter cleaned or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the car. The engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs correctly, all before we head off.
Unrun vehicles mostly need a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Pendre
Pendre is a suburban area situated on the riverside in Powys, Wales, with a mix of terraced housing and other residential properties. Pendre sits at an elevation of 143 metres, near the towns of Brecon and Pontwilym, and is located approximately 29 miles from Hereford. Pendre is part of a larger urban area, with nearby neighbourhoods including Uplands. Pendre has a population of around 4017 people, according to recent estimates.
Pendre and Powys: AdBlue drains across the area
Uplands and Brecon are among the towns near Pendre, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, throughout LD postcodes. Give a postcode that starts LD3 9, and our van gets there quickest.
The car stays put. Wherever it sits — near Site of Brecon County Grammar School for Boys, in a lay-by en route to The Groves, at home — that's where it is cleared. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Brecon Castle, ring and ask rather than guessing.
In short, for Pendre people
First, the cap; then, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere across Powys.