AdBlue can I make my own

[Jez1966]

From research AdBlue is 32.5% Urea + 67.5% Deionized water sells for approx £1.7 per litre.

I can buy Deionized water 25l for £19
Urea 5kgs £34
@32.5g urea per litre 5kgs will produce 154 Litres.
150 Litres of Deionized water = £115
So home brew £1 per litre, less if you buy larger volumes but I'm not drinking it..

Am I missing something?
No duty so why not make your own?

 

[chaser]

Am I reading this right, you are going to all this trouble to save 7 pence a lt

 

[Phill D]

To me 7p a ltr saving does not sound worth the hassle. But I don’t have an adblue system. Assuming you can mix it effectively; How much will you actually save in a year,
And set that off against what is the cost of clearing the faults on the ecu for adblue sensors if you screw up a mix.

 

[Jez1966]

Am I reading this right, you are going to all this trouble to save 7 pence a lt

£1.7 - £1 = 0.70 or 41% less

 

[Phill D]

£1.7 - £1 = 0.70

I will just go and change my glasses

So how much will you save per year

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[Rogerwyn]

From research AdBlue is 32.5% Urea + 67.5% Deionized water sells for approx £1.7 per litre.

I can by Deionized water 25l for £19
Urea 5kgs £34
@32.5g urea per litre 5kgs will produce 154 Litres.
150 Litres of Deionized water = £115
So home brew £1 per litre, less if you buy larger volumes but I'm not drinking it..

Am I missing something?
No duty so why not make your own?

So let’s get this right your going to get a pig catch it’s piss and water it down to 32.7 good Luck

 

[Phill D]

Are you sure you haven’t edited it from£1.07

 

[DuxDeluxe]

AdBlue systems are very sensitive to contamination - pointless going to a lot of effort to save a little bit over the year if it is going to expensively screw up the system

 

[Jez1966]

Are you sure you haven’t edited it from£1.07

No

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10l £ 16.99

 

[Phill D]

So have you worked out the potential annual savings for your mileage

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[Podney]

I’ll send you a litre of my **** if you want it. I’m full of it!

 

[Jez1966]

So let’s get this right your going to get a pig catch it’s piss and water it down to 32.7 good Luck

Re read BUY
I can buy Deionized water 25l for £19
Urea 5kgs £34
No pigs need to be chased in the making of home brew AdBlue

 

[Spriddler]

Am I reading this right, you are going to all this trouble to save 7 pence a lt

Agreed, but it's a 70p a litre saving not 7p. Even so I definitely wouldn't bother.
Maybe there's somewhere cheaper for Urea? Whereabouts in Yorkshire are you?.

 

[Phill D]

How many mile per ltr of adblue?

 

[Phill D]

How many mile per ltr of adblue?

I just looked it up it’s around 600 - 700 miles per litre.

So if you do 10,000 miles a year you will save a max amount of around £12.
If my maths is correct .

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[Jez1966]

How many mile per ltr of adblue?

8l AdBlue per 100l diesel so 8%.
Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

 

[Rogerwyn]

I just looked it up it’s around 600 - 700 miles per litre.

So if you do 10,000 miles a year you will save a max amount of around £12.
If my maths is correct .

And there are so many bloody sensors which could say no

 

[Phill D]

8l AdBlue per 100l diesel so 8%.
Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

The answer you know is yes you can,
But why would you for around £1.20 per 1000 miles

 

[Rogerwyn]

8l AdBlue per 100l diesel so 8%.
Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

No

 

[Chris Laing]

I’ve just topped up in a service station heading north on the A26 towards Calais.
5 litres 25 Euro

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[Phill D]

8l AdBlue per 100l diesel so 8%.
Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

On those numbers assuming you get 25 mpg your saving is around £1 per 100 mile in round figures.

 

[Guigsy]

But most importantly, it won't be blue!

 

[Jez1966]

I’ve just topped up in a service station heading north on the A26 towards Calais.
5 litres 25 Euro

Guessing/hoping that was not AdBlue? That's £4.40 a litre?

 

[BikerGraham]

Yes you can but is it worth it for what £20 or so a year saving. Even at £100 a year is it worth the hassle ?

One of the chemical plants I used to work at used between 150 and 200 tonnes of urea a day as a raw material for chipboard glue.
We also used a 5% solution in a scrubber system. Back then it was around £300 per tonne. I imagine it’s a lot more now but that’s a lot of adblue to make and miles driven

 

[PeterCarole29]

I cant understand why its so expensive everywhere i pay my local tyre and exhauste garage £10 for a drum With out checking sure its 10litres

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[Chris Laing]

Guessing/hoping that was not AdBlue? That's £4.40 a litre?

It was but not from pump

 

[Jez1966]

As per litre it is pretty much the same as diesel retail 8% home brew 4% on top of diesel.
Very dependant on milage, I'll probably cover 40k in next year but sadly wont have access to home brew.

 

[Jez1966]

It was but not from pump

If those prices cross the channel home brew's £3.40p per litre cheaper, looking more attactive, subject to raw material costs, if your doing significant miles in your motorhome.
To other questions, re components Deionized water is Deionized water, pure urea is pure urea + set of scales, sorted.

 

[gus-lopez]

I can buy Deionized water 25l for £19

Amazed me the price of it when I bought a litre in the UK. here Lidl's sell 25 litre drums for under 10€ last time I looked & yes people use large amounts as most have steam irons & tap water is far too hard.

Everyone seems to have missed the actual question "AdBlue can I make my own".

yes but find a cheaper source of water.

 

[Jez1966]

Amazed me the price of it when I bought a litre in the UK. here Lidl's sell 25 litre drums for under 10€ last time I looked & yes people use large amounts as most have steam irons & tap water is far too hard.

yes but find a cheaper source of water.

We, sorry, better half uses water from dehumidifier for ironing, so distilled not deinonized but "soft".
Guessing you don't have the humidity to "make" your own water.

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