Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Rogerstone: Why It Occurs
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. Caught before the motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Rogerstone. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to prevent it altogether.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Plenty of newer diesels on the roads around Rogerstone and Bassaleg carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas.
There's a filler for each tank. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on many vehicles. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens around Rogerstone
It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Cefn Road, or heading home in the car park outside Tredegar Arms.
Unfamiliar cars come next, too. Rentals, new vehicles and company cars place their fillers differently, and the hand reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
Nothing halts the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Rhiwderin or the middle of Rogerstone: it is the same few seconds either way.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Rogerstone forecourt or a driveway over in Ty-Sign, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits.
- The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it is in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you pick up a rental or company car — from the nearest station's car park, say — rather than when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Newport that is.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of St John's Crescent.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've found the filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting your car, shut the cap and check a second time that the diesel cap was never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five is out.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Rogerstone?
Short list, then. Top of that: the engine stays unstarted. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Filling up with diesel will not thin it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Morrisons, the Asda or anywhere else. Your own drive in Rogerstone is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. The next junction is the place to leave when you're on the M4, under 3 miles from Rogerstone. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newport, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Rogerstone.
When our engineers get there around Rogerstone, what takes place?
Wherever your car has stopped, be it by the local primary school, beside Bethesda Baptist Church or at home, the van travels to it. Which fluid was put in, the amount, and whether it ran: our technicians ask since the answers decide the work and quote. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone sets off.
The fuel system is then rinsed thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. 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. Filter flushed or, if it must be, swapped; fresh diesel in; and then a test of your car. Before leaving, we start the engine and make sure that it's running properly.
If the motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Rogerstone, for a moment
Rogerstone is a village situated on the banks of the River Ebbw in south Wales, approximately 2.8 miles north of Newport. Rogerstone has a relatively low elevation of around 60 metres above sea level and is surrounded by nearby places such as Rhiwderin and High Cross. Rogerstone is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting its suburban edge location. Rogerstone remains a residential community with a population of around 2369 people.
Rogerstone and Newport: AdBlue drains across the area
Over NP postcodes, the vans that cover Rogerstone — a village — work the nearby spots too, Lower Ochrwyth and High Cross among them. A postcode starting NP10 9 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting the car isn't needed. Wherever it sits — beside St. John's, in a lay-by en route to Rogerstone Welfare Ground, at home — that's where it gets drained. Assuming won't help behind Tydu Community Hall, on a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and check.
The short version for Rogerstone motorists
Always, the cap; then, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, throughout Newport.