Penyraber: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your motor has not run, it's drained and thoroughly cleaned where the car sits around Penyraber. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Many newer diesels on the roads around Penyraber and Dyffryn carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there a spray cleans the fumes.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have the two side by side behind one flap. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between the two.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs in Penyraber
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
Hurry comes from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a driveway off Vergam Terrace, or on the way home in the car park outside Bennetts Navy Tavern.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
A spout-topped bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, carries on. Fishguard or the heart of Penyraber: it takes the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Penyraber forecourt or a driveway out in Harbour Village, spend a couple of seconds on these before any goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one.
- Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in each filler right there.
- The handbook. If your filler isn't by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Fishguard & Goodwick.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Pembrokeshire that is.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Maes Waldo.
- Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" aloud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on.
- Finish when your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour slowly using its built-in spout.
- Shut the cap, and look once more — making sure your diesel filler remained closed the whole time. Only then, start the vehicle.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Penyraber?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Don't switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't 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 pulled from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the the nearest petrol station or the Esso, ask the attendants to help push the car away from the pump. If you're on your own driveway in Penyraber, leave the vehicle where it stands.
When your motor has been run already, pull over safely and turn the car off. Come off the M4 — under 50 miles out of Penyraber — at the first junction. A short hop across Penyraber is a smaller job than a run towards St Davids, under 15 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
When we turn up around Penyraber, what happens?
Our van reaches the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near Holy Name Church, or outside the local primary school. The replies decide this work and our price, and so our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run. Nobody heads out until you have heard our quote by phone.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out by itself. That is why it matters more. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Then our engineers fire it up and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
With pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run take about half an hour once our technicians are there. The insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Penyraber, briefly
Penyraber is a coastal suburban area in Pembrokeshire, situated near the towns of Fishguard and Goodwick. Penyraber sits at an elevation of around 60 metres, overlooking the coastline of west Wales. Penyraber is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its residential nature. Penyraber is located near the smallest city in the UK, St Davids, which is 14.4 miles away.
AdBlue drains about Penyraber, and Pembrokeshire beyond
Lower Town and Goodwick are among the places near Penyraber, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over SA postcodes. Give a postcode that starts SA65 9, and our van gets there fastest.
Your car does not need to shift. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Lota Park, a side street close to Theatr Gwaun: our technicians drain the vehicle where it is. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Bethel English Baptist Church.
Penyraber drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Keep the car switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Pembrokeshire.