For the 2 litre diesels the manual only reckons you use one of two options
The slop it in method based on bottles with regular spout or funnel isn't featured. Spills of adblue must be washed off.
Pricewise commercial filler pumps are half the price of Halford bottles etc (slop it in method). Opened bottles of the stuff go off after six months. Dealers doing it for you costs four times the price of the pumps. The small valve bottles which Seat have as an option are much more expensive so you wouldn't do that and you need a number of bottles. You need to put in 5 litres to register, like four. The valve bottles hold 1.5 litres so are expensive, circa £36 each. Some people then cut the bottle up and use with the cheaper big bottles, still double the price of the commercial pumps.
There is an argument that if living in the sticks you might be reduced to bottles if you can't get to pumps although you might pass one in the 1,500 mile range in normal travels.. . There are filler pipes with valves you can buy to connect to these bottles which largely date to when the filler point was in the boot of diesel cars. That's more expense.
Commercial adblue lorry filler pumps can be found on
https://www.findadblue.com/
Select Air1 or Hem.
Also there is a location app under Air1 least for Android.
The Ateca tank takes 11 litres, will warn at 1,500 miles range to empty and stop the engine from starting at 0 miles. A full tank should give you 5,500 miles from new. The range from the next fillup is how much you brim it. The manual says don't, again due to spills, when filling via an Adblue pump stop when the pump stops. The depth of the nozzle in the tank on refill gave me 5,000 miles range without attempting to brim it. Adblue is filled next to the diesel cap in the Ateca just under the flap.
Example of refilling via an Adblue pump is here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=goqtO93ueD8
Magnets ?. Mentioned in the video it's used on commercial lorries around the nozzle which increase the flow to 40 litres a minute. Had no problem with a Total pump, the flow was fine. Not too quick, not too slow.
UK prices for Adblue at the pumps is circa 70p a litre. Fill up till the pump stops, cap on, pay. Press the start button without pressing the brake too start the engine. Leave for 30 seconds on ignition only. Adblue measure should now be reset. Job done for another 4,000 or so miles for about £6 with 1,500 miles spare . Adblue costs are miniscule. In fact my consumption was originally indicated to a range of 5,500 but in reality at the point of fill up it would have been 6,500 miles to empty.
The process for filling up at this lorry pump which was at the German / Luxembourg border was to pull up at the pump, go across to the central desk, they took the credit / debit card swipe against the pump, go back and fill, return again and pay. Given it was a Sunday and lorries lay up on that day in the Dutchy there wasn't a lot of pressure on the lorry pumps. I guess a similar process applies elsewhere.
- locking bottle
- adblue commercial pump
The slop it in method based on bottles with regular spout or funnel isn't featured. Spills of adblue must be washed off.
Pricewise commercial filler pumps are half the price of Halford bottles etc (slop it in method). Opened bottles of the stuff go off after six months. Dealers doing it for you costs four times the price of the pumps. The small valve bottles which Seat have as an option are much more expensive so you wouldn't do that and you need a number of bottles. You need to put in 5 litres to register, like four. The valve bottles hold 1.5 litres so are expensive, circa £36 each. Some people then cut the bottle up and use with the cheaper big bottles, still double the price of the commercial pumps.
There is an argument that if living in the sticks you might be reduced to bottles if you can't get to pumps although you might pass one in the 1,500 mile range in normal travels.. . There are filler pipes with valves you can buy to connect to these bottles which largely date to when the filler point was in the boot of diesel cars. That's more expense.
Commercial adblue lorry filler pumps can be found on
https://www.findadblue.com/
Select Air1 or Hem.
Also there is a location app under Air1 least for Android.
The Ateca tank takes 11 litres, will warn at 1,500 miles range to empty and stop the engine from starting at 0 miles. A full tank should give you 5,500 miles from new. The range from the next fillup is how much you brim it. The manual says don't, again due to spills, when filling via an Adblue pump stop when the pump stops. The depth of the nozzle in the tank on refill gave me 5,000 miles range without attempting to brim it. Adblue is filled next to the diesel cap in the Ateca just under the flap.
Example of refilling via an Adblue pump is here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=goqtO93ueD8
Magnets ?. Mentioned in the video it's used on commercial lorries around the nozzle which increase the flow to 40 litres a minute. Had no problem with a Total pump, the flow was fine. Not too quick, not too slow.
UK prices for Adblue at the pumps is circa 70p a litre. Fill up till the pump stops, cap on, pay. Press the start button without pressing the brake too start the engine. Leave for 30 seconds on ignition only. Adblue measure should now be reset. Job done for another 4,000 or so miles for about £6 with 1,500 miles spare . Adblue costs are miniscule. In fact my consumption was originally indicated to a range of 5,500 but in reality at the point of fill up it would have been 6,500 miles to empty.
The process for filling up at this lorry pump which was at the German / Luxembourg border was to pull up at the pump, go across to the central desk, they took the credit / debit card swipe against the pump, go back and fill, return again and pay. Given it was a Sunday and lorries lay up on that day in the Dutchy there wasn't a lot of pressure on the lorry pumps. I guess a similar process applies elsewhere.
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