AdBlue. Any tips?

Fiat have made much of the fact in most motorhome journals that the Euro 6 Ducato does not use Adblue. So, what we have here is an anomaly/ exception. For some reason Hobby has chosen a chassis not normally used for motorhomes. As it is the people carrier chassis that requires Adblue I am guessing that is what they have used. People carriers obviously need lots of seat belt anchorage points so i would expect that it is the platform cab in use here. Nothing new there as they have been used before on motorhomes, mainly if not exclusively, by continental converters. A platform cab has a metal floor on which to build the body on.
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Apologies for doubting you Camperval and hope that my other comments helped. This is the first time I've heard of any Fiat Ducato commercial van or motorhome needing AdBlue until the emissions tests change again. We can all learn!

Best wishes for your motorhoming journeys.

Apologies accepted Aspenshaw.

Everyone's comments have been helpful and I now feel confident about it.

Thanks again all, and happy camping!

It certainly seems odd as FIAT state no ad blue for MH's Euro 6 versions.  Our 2016 Euro 5+ has a blanked off Ad Blue fuller under the diesel filler so I wonder if this is the same on the Hobby?

Oh crikey MichaelT! I haven't actually tried the filler cap ,thinking if it was there that it's real! I'll have to check. It's on the storage site at the moment so I'll get back to everyone later....

Reading the handbook might reveal that like my Disco you can easily access the "service" pages on the dash and see how many miles of AdBlue is remaining?

I certainly would not be worrying about it, indeed as a means of addressing NOx reduction IMO it is far easier to live with than exhaust gas recirculation has proved in all the cars we have run with that technology. I know the technologies are used in combination with each other, but anything to reduce the amount of EGR needed the better in my book.

Hi all,

I have a hobby T70ge, 16 plate,150 and you dont need ad blue. the filler is blanked off.

mike

AFAIK it is not practicable to use truck Adblue dispensers to fill up a small vehicle at filling stations for technical reasons. Perhaps in time filling stations in the UK will have van/car Adblue pumps. I don't know if these already exist in Europe but the best plan seems to be to leave UK with a full tank.

Hi BVM, As I said in my post you will find AdBlue widely available 'sur le continent' but in the quantities that you would get here-up to 10 litres- not via a pump as you don't need that volume unless you are a truck.............and I am not going to make any comment about MHs at this point!

I appreciate that Adblue has been around for years in trucks and that the quantities which they use are much greater hence the need for  a pump. However on our planned trip of around 6000 miles we would very likely have needed to top up (and thus source or from the start carry ) Adblue.  One local branch of Halfords said they were selling 400 bottles a week. 

Carrying an extra 10 litre container in our smallish van for all or part of the journey) would be slightly inconvenient but by no means impossible hence my question whether in Continental Europe it was available on draught for small vehicles. I am sure this will come and Germany will probably be the first to implement it. 

Camperval - just to put your mind at rest, I was also slightly concerned when I got my new Touareg, two years ago which also uses Adblue.  I bought a filler pipe (about £10 on line) and always keep a 10 litre container at home - which are readily available from bigger filling stations.  I get about 6000 miles on a tankful before the warning message comes on - but that gives me 2500 miles notice.  It's about a ten minute job the fill the tank but I also get the dealer to top it up at service time.  It needs doing so infrequently, that I have virtually forgotten about it!