Thread: Young Lady having a bad day

Originally Posted by V8Ian

It's not a fuel Pedro, it's an exhaust gas treatment. The size of the ad blue tank generally does not correlate to the size of the fuel capacity. Rule of thumb says 1 litre of ad blue for each 10 of diesel. Not all servos have ad blue bowsers.

no, for the sake of this arguement, de-rating engines, its a fuel,, and a professional driver should manage it as such,,

so you guys just drive off into the horizen not knowing when the truck will de-rate itself?
seriously?
wow,,

The R730 I was driving would get about 3 tanks of diesel to 1 of adblue. The adblue light would come on when you had enough left for about 100 kms by memory. We used to keep a 10 litre bottle in the trailer toolbox "just in case"

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

no, for the sake of this arguement, de-rating engines, its a fuel,, and a professional driver should manage it as such,,

so you guys just drive off into the horizen not knowing when the truck will de-rate itself?
seriously?
wow,,

Availability is the issue Pedro, technology is ahead of retail.

I "nearly" did this myself. We were travelling to S.A., & got to this servo in Nurioopta (I think). Anyway it was a BP, very busy, they were having renos on the driveway, some pumps not working etc, so big delay to get fuel, and several people taking ages to get out of their car, muck around operating the pump etc. Not good.
Anyway, I eventually get to the pump, start to put fuel in, when wifey yells out "STOP" in a loud voice. Luckily, I'd only put in 1.5L of petrol, so no worries, but I was very lucky.
Talking to a friend who owns an ultra tune center, He said they get a few calls a week to drain tanks etc. He said the problem is with the location of the bowsers, where the diesel pump used to have its own location, but not any more.
So now I'm extra careful, to check I've got the right fuel.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

It's not a fuel Pedro, it's an exhaust gas treatment. The size of the ad blue tank generally does not correlate to the size of the fuel capacity. Rule of thumb says 1 litre of ad blue for each 10 of diesel. Not all servos have ad blue bowsers.

Whoah! That doesn't seem right. I get almost all the way between services before needing to top up on AdBlue which equates to around 1l Adblue to 135l fuel. And it's only around $1/litre at the pump. Regular cars & 4WDs are not however, recommended to fill from the bowser (not sure why) so I buy the 10l bottles.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

. He said the problem is with the location of the bowsers, where the diesel pump used to have its own location, but not any more.

due to the number of diesel passenger cars, "petrol" stations are installing more diesel pumps, generally right next to the petrol pump

AdBlue converts harmful NOx from your diesel vehicle exhaust into harmless nitrogen and steam, therefore considerably reducing the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) that are a major source of atmospheric pollution and that lead to smog in urban centres.




The injection rate depends on the specific after-treatment system, but is typically 2–6% of diesel consumption volume

Originally Posted by solmanic

Whoah! That doesn't seem right. I get almost all the way between services before needing to top up on AdBlue which equates to around 1l Adblue to 135l fuel. And it's only around $1/litre at the pump. Regular cars & 4WDs are not however, recommended to fill from the bowser (not sure why) so I buy the 10l bottles.

I'm going on what I was advised when taking a Volvo road train from Perth to Darwin, a route that, at the time, had no ad blue bowsers and limited bottled supplies. All other ad blue trucks I have driven have been from an un-metered in-house bowser.