Missing cap. (1 Viewer)

[GWAYGWAY]

On my last trip I mentioned that I dropped my ADBLUE cap and couldn't find it at all, well I got home and then really tried to find it but to no avail, not to be found where I thought it must have gone into the Radiator housing, looked with a bendy lead camera but saw nothing. I ordered a new one online and the thing that arrived was nothing like the one that was on there, it has a rotating top for locking the top and needs a weird plastic key to lock it and turn.. Cost me £9.98 from a dealer and it is a sprinter one they say, I locked it with a car-key but not ideal, so will now have to make a proper one.
The actual adblue seems to being drunk like diesel tank 1600 miles and 12 litres to top up there and more when I got back. No so cheap if it goes down like that on a long run especially if you are forced to used retail packs so as to get it in the VERY narrow gap to the engine compartment on an A-class. How the hell are those engines meant to be worked on????? would need all the front section taken out just to see what was in there, let alone fixed. Maybe I will not keep it THAT long, the coach-built ones have a lot going for them on that front. At l;east you can SEE the engine.

 

[EX51SSS]

If you've already got a retail pack, why not refill from a pump at a fuel station?

 

[pappajohn]

12ltrs should keep it fed for MANY thousands of miles...
Sounds like you have a leak.

This from a mercedes website....

On average, 1 litre of AdBlue® should last around 1,000km

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[MillieMoocher]

Doesn’t quite sound right Graham.

On Millie mk1we used to get around 3,000 miles to a tankful. No idea why it’s using so much but something doesn’t quite sound right. Probably worth a chat with your local Merc commercial dealer. May even be some sprinter forums too that you could pose the question on.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

If you've already got a retail pack, why not refill from a pump at a fuel station?

THE MAGNET. there is a magnet in the Lorry system to stop the idiots that might, put it in the fuel tank from doing so. It opens a valve in the spout somehow but I have not found out how yet. It tried a ring of magnets around an empty retail pack but it took only a tiny dribble every time I opened the valve and it take a LONG time to get a reasonable amount. Got fed up. I can ask a friend with a bulk tank for his Scania, if I can buys some of his at 35p a litre. Just wasn't expecting to have the warning come on in France when it did. The price difference is rather large 18 euro for 10 litres retail. I may not have filled it right up at the last filling with 10 litres into a 20 litre tank. Book says it must be done at a dealers????????? like hell, imagine the MB price for that. The oil change is going to be a bit high as well but the first I am getting done before the Warranty runs out and get a recall check done as well, the gearbox make a funny swiishing noise at certain times probably valves opening in the valve chest but it is coming to the end of warranty very quickly only two years for a non UK sourced Sprinter base.

 

[EX51SSS]

THE MAGNET. there is a magnet in the Lorry system to stop the idiots that might, put it in the fuel tank from doing so. It opens a valve in

Yes, you're right there and I take it that on a Moho, there is no direct fill point from a pump similar to that on LGV 's?

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[Theonlysue]

Halfords selling 10 litres for £14.
I got about 3500 miles on 10 litres in a 3 litre engine. Sounds like you have a leak.
My cap just screwed on but was under the bonnet on an A class.
There is a filling hose you can order from Mercedes about £15 but made filling so much easier.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

The retail cans 10 ltr have a spout already on them that works OK. It is just the price of two gallons of water and pig pxss. A whacking great markup for the garage sales ,even more for main dealer prices with the cars at a litre a time.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

I found an adblue consumption site and filled in the details and for my mileage I should have used THREE full tankfuls at 18 litres a go so that is what I have used, if not slightly more.
I obviously did not fill right up first times and this time it dropped to the level that the warnings started. I will look into the magnet system and let you all know how to overcome it, More and more will be needing to use the smelly stuff from now on.

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}