What happens if I don't top-up my adblue?

Supersonos

My Land Rover has been giving me a message for several weeks to top up my Diesel Exhaust Fluid saying it's "required" within 200 miles.

Out of interest, what will happen if I don't? Will I simply pump some nitrous oxide into the air, or will the car refuse to start?

And where is a good place to get it? I can't say I trust Amazon - I could be buying a bottle of anything.

Goudy

This is from Land Rover's site:

The message centre displays a series of messages when the DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid or Adblue) level becomes low.

1. The first message states that the DEF level is at a level where a Top-Up is advised.

2. The second message is accompanied by an AMBER warning icon and states to refill the DEF tank.

3. The third message starts a countdown of the distance remaining until the DEF tank is empty, after which the vehicle will fail to start.

4. The final message is accompanied by a RED warning icon and is displayed when the distance remaining is zero and states that no further restarts will be possible until DEF is added to the tank

DigForVictory

I find the stuff gruesome as its a chemical 'solution' to air pollution.

Artificial pig urine, which traps particulates [hurrah less exhaust emissions] & than vents the fluid onto the road & thence into the water table.

You end up with the unwanted chemicals in the water streams with bonus urea.

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Most motor factors sell adblue in 10 litre containers. Eurocarparts claim they are the cheapest.


A discovery takes 17 litres!

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DigForVictory wrote: »

I find the stuff gruesome as its a chemical 'solution' to air pollution.

Artificial pig urine, which traps particulates [hurrah less exhaust emissions] & than vents the fluid onto the road & thence into the water table.

You end up with the unwanted chemicals in the water streams with bonus urea.

I thought the idea is the adblue decomposes in the hot exhaust to ammonia (and carbon dioxide), which reacts with the nitrogen oxides to make delicious water* and inert nitrogen. If urea is coming out the tailpipe something is wrong.


* handy as apparently we are running out of it- where is it going?

Aylesbury_Duck

DigForVictory wrote: »

I find the stuff gruesome as its a chemical 'solution' to air pollution.

Artificial pig urine, which traps particulates [hurrah less exhaust emissions] & than vents the fluid onto the road & thence into the water table.

You end up with the unwanted chemicals in the water streams with bonus urea.

Are you sure? I think the products of the reaction are carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water. Nothing goes into the water table other than more....water. A little bit of extra nitrogen gas isn't a problem either, given the air is already 78% nitrogen by composition.

caprikid1

"Yeah your car literally won’t start. "

Its a discovery so you really should not give it any more reasons to not start / breakdown.

Scrapit

Op sounds like they dont want to top it up. Fill it and forget until next time.

neilmcl

DigForVictory wrote: »

I find the stuff gruesome as its a chemical 'solution' to air pollution.

Artificial pig urine, which traps particulates [hurrah less exhaust emissions] & than vents the fluid onto the road & thence into the water table.

You end up with the unwanted chemicals in the water streams with bonus urea.

You clearly have no understanding of how it works.

molerat

£8.99 for 10l in Aldi this Thursday Aug 1st.
https://www.aldi.co.uk/adblue-summer-10l/p/021188299963600

loskie

what a laugh it will be if it pumps nitrous oxide into the air.