Pentre: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
Leave your motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before your engine runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Pentre. Here in advance? Then the rest covers why it comes about and what to stop it ever happening.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of modern diesels on the roads about Pentre and Cwmparc carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two side by side behind one flap. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Pentre?
Carelessness rarely 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 altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Pleasant Street before work, or in the car park outside The Windsor on the way home.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
A spout-topped bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, keeps on. It's a few seconds, whether out in Rhondda or bang in the centre of Pentre.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Treorchy or a forecourt in Pentre, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- On many cars, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck.
- Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of vehicles show which goes in which filler just there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Ton Pentre? Ask whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Anywhere in Rhondda Cynon Taf the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Rees Place.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found the filler and read it.
- The two behind one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays closed ahead of raising the bottle.
- Finish when that tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, pour gently through its built-in spout.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop right there. Don't carry on to stage five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Pentre?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the vehicle on. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Texaco, the Murco or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive in Pentre, leave it where it stands.
Where the motor has been run by now, stop safely then turn it off. The next exit is the place to come off if you are on the M4, under 10 miles from Pentre. A short hop across Pentre is a smaller job than a run towards Cardiff, under 25 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival in Pentre, and what takes place next
Our van reaches the car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near Oasis Church, or outside the local primary school. Both the work and our quote depend on three replies — what liquid, what quantity, and if it has run — so we ask. During the phone call itself, you hear the quote — ahead of dispatch.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel 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 does not wash out on its own. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if needed — fresh diesel is added, and then the vehicle is tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running correctly.
Unstarted vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is fine on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street after dark. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with many policies.
About Pentre
Pentre is a suburban area in Rhondda Cynon Taf, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 161 metres. Pentre is located near the communities of Rhondda, Ton Pentre, and Gelli, and is approximately 18 miles from Cardiff. Pentre has a population of around 3708 people and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing. Pentre is also within commuting distance of major cities, with London being around 145 miles away.
Pentre and Rhondda Cynon Taf: AdBlue drains across the area
Ton Pentre and Gelli are among the towns near Pentre, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over CF postcodes. A postcode starting CF41 7 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting your car is not necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Pentre Park, a side street near St Peter's: our engineers drain it where it stands. Assuming won't help at the back of St John the Baptist, close to a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for Pentre motorists
Before you pour, read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere around Rhondda Cynon Taf.