Adblue panic time

[anonymous-user]

E30M3SE said:

OP, your car hasn't got a tank it runs the later bag system, you need to replace the whole bag that is located in a plastic tray underneath the car next to the fuel tank.

The plot thickens !

[thebraketester]

Pistom said:

xjay1337 said:

If you can't find a hole that big in a car in the daytime, I do wonder why you need a people carrier .

Some people should really pursue a career in comedy.

Haaah. Jay made a funny. :-)

[GIYess]

Do you think that cars pre adblue will rocket in value a bit like lorries pre digi card were in big demand for a while? All this new emmisions stuff is just getting too much!!

[andy43]

j80jpw said:

Maybe they didn't anticipate the car outliving the adblue volume....

I can just picture the workers on the production line "zees boot liner 'as no 'oles".
<shrugs french shoulders and fits it anyway>

[AJB]

paintman said:

Discussion re the system on the Citroen Berlingo. Talks about a special tool being needed AND a computer reset:
https://www.berlingoforum.com/thread-11829.html

paintman said:

The cynic in me says it's a cunning plan to make you take the car to a dealer.....

That thread is talking about DPF fluid (Eolys?) which is completely different to adblue. It helps the DPF regenerate (and I think was maybe more common when adding DPFs to cars not originally designed to have them, so the DPF was further from the engine and didn't get as hot - although I may have completely made that up!). Adblue is to help a different part of the exhaust deal with NOx emissions, and has nothing to do with the DPF.

I haven't had a chance to look at the videos paintman posted, so not sure what they're referring to.

[Silverbullet767]

In for the conclusion. Gotta love french cars!

[triathlonstu]

[Stickyfinger]

Do NOT get mixed up between the ELOYS tank and the AdBlue tank !

You could always look yourself via Citroen Service.... http://service.citroen.com/docpr/

Can I also make a recommendation to join the French Car Forum..... https://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/index.php

Edited by Stickyfinger on Monday 18th September 09:54

[tvrolet]

Got to say I'd never head of adblue before, and so rather than ask 'what's adblue' here, I had a quick google - every day's a school day! So as well as engines getting more complex year-on-year we also now have other systems metering this liquid into the exhaust. Wow. Anyway, it seems it's just urea. Can't just piss into the fuel tank then for the same effect?

[Smitters]

I'm so in. This had better not be more Nazi bunkers OP. Please!

[foxbody-87]

I wonder if a nearly-empty adblue tank will become part of the used car buying experience, along with the obligatory running-on-fumes fuel level?

[R6VED]

In :-) in fact I am so in I just specifically logged in, in order to be in.

[maffski]

Vaud said:

catso said:

Do the C4 Grand Picasso use Adblue?

The Wife had one (a diesel), albeit the old model from 2013 until last year and it didn't have an Adblue tank...

Given it is in the manual for the car, yes, probably ;-)

2014 onwards ?

It's in my 208 manual as well, but my car (2014) doesn't have it (1.4 diesel). For Peugeot 2014 was the switch over period so older engine installs (Euro5 / HDI FAP?) don't have it and newer ones (Euro6 / BlueHDI?) do.

[essayer]

Our Tiguan has just popped up a warning message: "Top up Adblue. Engine will not start in 1500 miles"
Luckily it has a filling point next to the fuel cap

[Johnnytheboy]

Grahamdub said:

E30M3SE said:

OP, your car hasn't got a tank it runs the later bag system, you need to replace the whole bag that is located in a plastic tray underneath the car next to the fuel tank.

The plot thickens !

This seems like the most plausible reply.

[BuzzBravado]

Apparently this image is of a Grand Picasso adblue bag:



it hangs from the underside inside a plastic container.

[andy43]

BuzzBravado said:

Apparently this image is of a Grand Picasso adblue bag:



it hangs from the underside inside a plastic container.

My father-in-law has one of those.
Dead easy to find - he straps his to his leg.

[Rawwr]

Welshbeef said:

Reminds me of a situation I spent HOURS trying to find the oil filter location of my old Fiat Coupe 20 VT.

In your case the filter probably didn't exist. Nor the car.

[Zippee]

If it's a bag system then guessing that will be a lot more expensive to replace? You can get 10l containers of ad-blu from Halfords for about £11 but I've never seen bags. Dealer only??

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

BuzzBravado said:

Apparently this image is of a Grand Picasso adblue bag:



it hangs from the underside inside a plastic container.

That's an outrageous system; why on earth wouldn't they have a tank like everyone else?!