AdBlue prices

[Robmac]

Yep anglebox at Whitehead lower carpark with me and gran who brought me up from a we skitter to a porky one.
G dad was high up in the pru and his cars were changed everu 18 mths or so, we had 4 anglias 1 gt cortina mk 1 before his retirement, must say i loved the dark green with white strip gt cortina.

I preferred the Lotus Cortina which my mate had Trev.

That was the opposite colour scheme - White with a Green stripe.

 

[trevskoda]

Add blue in local shop £7 for 5ltrs, surley ther must be a runaround in the wireing to cut this out untill mot.

 

[Fisherman]

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Still have g dads camera plus a older bellows one which takes bigger film.

I reckon that photo was taken on 35mm ilford monochrome 100 asi film.
The older bellows cameras were mostly made by a German company called Voiglander, their best camera was the Bessa. Kodak did make a few also. Although they used larger 120 film giving a larger 6x6cm negative which would normally give a better quality image, the lenses from the 1930s were inferior to those produced from the 1960s for SLR cameras made by the likes of Nikon and Canon. The camera used may not be an SLR, but a 35mm smaller camera. It was no taken with the micro 110 format popular in the 70s and early 80s, the negatives were to small and the optics poor on these cameras.

 

[Fisherman]

Add blue in local shop £7 for 5ltrs, surley ther must be a runaround in the wireing to cut this out untill mot.

Adblue removes 95% of the dangerous nitrogen oxide released when burning diesel Trev. I know you can have your vehicle chipped to remove the need for Adblue, but I reckon that may be illegal. If it works ok and only costs about £12 for around 4000 miles of driving why bother. I am not referring to global warming here, NO2 is a totally different matter.

 

[RSD7a]

Ettyht. sigAdblue removes 95% of the dangerous nitrogen oxide released when burning diesel Trev. I know you can have your vehicle chipped to remove the need for Adblue, but I reckon that may be illegal. If it works ok and only costs about £12 for around 4000 miles of driving why bother. I am not referring to global warming here, NO2 is a totally different matter.

Agree. But especially with the big word "if". eg the bill for replacing the nox sensor on my last van wasn't a pretty sight. And I wasn't the first person in the world to have that done!

 

[Fisherman]

Agree. But especially with the big word "if". eg the bill for replacing the nox sensor on my last van wasn't a pretty sight. And I wasn't the first person in the world to have that done!

Try using a crystallisation inhibitor. Crystallisation is what causes most blockages in sensors. Sometimes they can even repair sensors which have become faulty.
When putting in another 10L of Adblue I first put in 25ml ceroil . I was recommended on MMM. You can get it on Amazon £10 for 100ml. But there are others available ob both Amazon and eBay.

I have heard this one works well also.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Robmac]

Try using a crystallisation inhibitor. Crystallisation is what causes most blockages in sensors. Sometimes they can even repair sensors which have become faulty.
When putting in another 10L of Adblue I first put in 25ml ceroil . I was recommended on MMM. You can get it on Amazon £10 for 100ml. But there are others available ob both Amazon and eBay.

I have heard this one works well also.

Pardon our interruption...

Thanks Bill.

Just ordered this one at £13.80 for 500ml.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Canalsman]

I think everyone got a lot of miles per gallon out of the old skoda as they got pushed for most of them.
That’s why the only extra they fitted was a heated rear screen, for winter pushing

"Can I have a door mirror for a Skoda?"

"Sounds like a fair swap."

 

[RSD7a]

Thanks Bill.

Just ordered this one at £13.80 for 500ml.

Ditto

 

[marchie]

"Can I have a door mirror for a Skoda?"

"Sounds like a fair swap."

I used to play darts with my first wife; much more successful after I sharpened her head ...

Steve

 

[Fisherman]

Another point regarding Adblue.
Never store it, buy it only when you need it, and check the date on the container.
It has a short shelf life before it starts to crystallise.
The problem with mohos is we don’t do a lot of miles and Adblue can remain in our tank for several months even in some extreme cases years. This is were problems can develop, and were crystallisation inhibitors are useful. They are probably not required for commercial vehicles were Adblue is being replaced much more often due to higher mileage.

 

[trevskoda]

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I reckon that photo was taken on 35mm ilford monochrome 100 asi film.
The older bellows cameras were mostly made by a German company called Voiglander, their best camera was the Bessa. Kodak did make a few also. Although they used larger 120 film giving a larger 6x6cm negative which would normally give a better quality image, the lenses from the 1930s were inferior to those produced from the 1960s for SLR cameras made by the likes of Nikon and Canon. The camera used may not be an SLR, but a 35mm smaller camera. It was no taken with the micro 110 format popular in the 70s and early 80s, the negatives were to small and the optics poor on these cameras.

Its a 35m simple point and shoot, my g dad had not one clue about cameras or anything in life except how to tot up the prues books, outside that everything was a mistory.

 

[RichardHelen262]

Add blue in local shop £7 for 5ltrs, surley ther must be a runaround in the wireing to cut this out untill mot.

A lot of people are having it mapped out, and there isn’t a problem with mot as it doesn’t alter emissions on the mot machine

 

[Robmac]

A lot of people are having it mapped out, and there isn’t a problem with mot as it doesn’t alter emissions on the mot machine

Indeed, I know people who do this Richard. Not sure I see the point really though.

Having AdBlue did mean I paid 0 road tax although that will now go up.

 

[trevskoda]

Indeed, I know people who do this Richard. Not sure I see the point really though.

Having AdBlue did mean I paid 0 road tax although that will now go up.

Point is money better spent on fuel to go further.

 

[Robmac]

Point is money better spent on fuel to go further.

About 10 quid every 6-7000 miles for AdBlue for my car Trev, that's less than 2 pints of beer once a year, I'd rather save on the road tax and not having to pay low emissions charges - do the maths!

And it's reducing Nitrogen Oxides in the air.

 

[trevskoda]

About 10 quid every 6-7000 miles for AdBlue for my car Trev, that's less than 2 pints of beer once a year, I'd rather save on the road tax and not having to pay low emissions charges - do the maths!

And it's reducing Nitrogen Oxides in the air.

How would the tax office know you disabled it, anyway 2 pints not to be missed.

 

[Robmac]

How would the tax office know you disabled it, anyway 2 pints not to be missed.

Probably wouldn't Trev.

But then you might get pulled by the DVLA in one of their purges and that could cost heavily.

For £10 a year is it really worth it, I'd rather not have the hassle of having it mapped out whatever that would cost! (according to AI £275-£600) so taking the lower figure it would take me getting on 30 years of motoring to save enough to cover the cost of the remap!

 

[Fisherman]

How would the tax office know you disabled it, anyway 2 pints not to be missed.

Trev you are completely missing the point here.
Nitrogen Oxide in large cities and larger towns with large volumes of traffic is a killer.
It’s reckoned that prior to the use of Adblue approx 40,000 people died prematurely due to NO2 emissions. It also has adverse effects on children’s development.
Diesel engines produce ten times more NO2 than an equivalent petrol engine.
Adblue reduces NO2 emissions by 90-95%, thus reducing significantly the incidence of premature deaths in built up areas. It’s not as much a problem in the countryside due to much lower levels of traffic, and less densely inhabited areas. Hence why low emission zones are primarily in our cities.
My van has a 19L Adblue tank, when it drops to 9L I get a warning to refill normally every 3500 miles. 10L of Adblue costs about £12, it’s peanuts.

Don’t confuse this with global warming, that’s a different issue.

 

[RichardHelen262]

Probably wouldn't Trev.

But then you might get pulled by the DVLA in one of their purges and that could cost heavily.

For £10 a year is it really worth it, I'd rather not have the hassle of having it mapped out whatever that would cost! (according to AI £275-£600) so taking the lower figure it would take me getting on 30 years of motoring to save enough to cover the cost of the remap!

I don’t think that the people that have it mapped out do it to save money, as you say it would take a long time to break even.
They usually do it because they have had too many expensive problems caused by the system.
It is usually high mileage commercial vehicles users, that have it done to save on expensive down time.
The thing I hate about adblue is all the plastic containers that end up in landfill,
I always find a garage that sells it by pump,
Unfortunately there aren’t enough garages selling via a pump