AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pennar Park: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It
Pause here for a moment when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Pennar Park, is usually all it needs when caught before your engine runs. Not happened yet? Below, the page covers the reasons it happens and the how to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads round Pennar Park and Bentlass carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, different fillers. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. The error lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Pennar Park: how it happens
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a drive off Haven Drive before work, or in the car park at the pub in the village heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle warns you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing stops it. It's seconds, whether out in Llanreath or right in the heart of Pennar Park.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Pennar Park forecourt or a driveway out in Llanstadwell, take a couple of seconds on these before any is poured in.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives when your filler isn't next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Pembroke Dock.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are across Pembrokeshire — a routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Military Road.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located the filler and read it.
- Both under a single flap? So make sure the lid on the diesel filler is still closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel filler remained shut the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Don't go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Pennar Park already?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the Asda, the Tesco or anywhere else. On your own drive in Pennar Park? Then the car remains where it is.
If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M4, under 50 miles from Pennar Park, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Pennar Park is less a job than a trip of under 25 miles to St Davids, so say.
Our arrival in Pennar Park, and what occurs next
The van reaches your car anywhere it stopped — your own drive, beside Defensible Barracks, or by the local primary school. Which liquid got in, the quantity, and whether it ran: we ask since those answers set the work and quote. During the phone call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else.
Then that tank is drained and the system rinsed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. That is why it counts more. A test is last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. Before we leave, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it's running correctly.
If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no deposit. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — so make use of the wait to look at yours.
About Pennar Park, for a moment
Pennar Park is a small suburban area situated on the coast of Pembrokeshire, with Llanreath and Pennar nearby. Pennar Park has a relatively low elevation of around 30 metres, and its coastal location offers views of the surrounding coastline. Pennar Park is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which is typical of many suburban areas in Wales.
AdBlue drains round Pennar Park, and Pembrokeshire beyond
As a residential suburb, Pennar Park has the same vans as surrounding areas — Pennar, Hazelbeach — all the way across SA postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. A postcode starting SA72 6 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting your car isn't needed. Wherever it stands — near Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, on a lay-by en route to South Pembrokeshire Golf Club, on a drive — that is where it gets cleared. Ring and ask instead of assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Pembroke Dock Bethel Baptist Church.
Pennar Park drivers: the short version
First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it sits, anywhere in Pembrokeshire.