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

Money_Grabber13579

facade wrote: »

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?

Manchester, I think....:eek:

sevenhills

loskie wrote: »

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

When my warning on the dash comes on, I have 1,000 miles to top it up.
Surely if the pollution goes into the air, it will end up in rivers and streams.

loskie

well top the blooming thing up then. If it has a LR service plan it will be done by the dealer for free. It's urea it's cheap, you are running an expensive car get on with it.

As I said pumping out NO2 could be a laughing matter.

Maybe have a look at what AdBlu does to your emissions.

Madmel

That Aldi one looks good value. I used to buy it from Halfords for £11, but Tesco now stocks it for £10 for 10 litres. You can refill those plastic containers at some petrol stations but to be honest, the refilling stations are more expensive than buying a new container.

facade

loskie wrote: »

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

sevenhills wrote: »

When my warning on the dash comes on, I have 1,000 miles to top it up.
Surely if the pollution goes into the air, it will end up in rivers and streams.

It was a joke. Nitrous oxide is commonly called laughing gas, and is sold in small silver cylinders that "yoofs" use to get an anaesthetic high in the street. (Either that or they have been making whipped cream in the street...):D



It is a greenhouse gas, and is now being blamed for ozone depletion, rather than pollution of water courses.
Nitrous oxide is not one of the NOx gases produced by normal combustion

Alexd52

facade wrote: »

It is a greenhouse gas, and is now being blamed for ozone depletion, rather than pollution of water courses.
Nitrous oxide is not one of the NOx gases produced by normal combustion

Nitrous oxide is produced by normal combustion, hence why it's becoming a problem

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/hybrid-technology/exhaust-heat-recovery-recirculation1.htm

neilmcl

Alexd52 wrote: »

Nitrous oxide is produced by normal combustion, hence why it's becoming a problem

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/hybrid-technology/exhaust-heat-recovery-recirculation1.htm

A common misconception that NOx is Nitrous Oxide, it's not!

NOx refers to a collection of harmful Nitrogen oxides such as Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide, this is not the same as Nitrous Oxide which is an anaesthetic.

Supersonos

caprikid1 wrote: »

"Yeah your car literally won’t start. "

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

Who said it's a Discovery?

Exemplar

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Manchester, I think....:eek:

I think you made a spelling error? 'Think' should be 'Hope'.

jk0

Err, maybe I'm behind the times with my schoolboy humour, but, would urine not work just as well as Adblue?