My 2014 Sharan uses AdBlue, its not a big deal and would not worry about it. You top it up yourself eigther from 2L bottles which are expencive or from a 10L container. A full tank of 17L will cost around £20 How much you use depends on how you drive but I have only used 10L in 16000 miles but allow for double that. The EURO6 cars may use a bit more You can also buy it straight from a pump at truck petrol stations for less than £1 / L

It can be topped up anytime but I tend to do it every 6 months just to be sure.. To use the 10L container you need a hose with a valve on it which costs £10 to £15. Access is via a removable panel in the boot or I think the newer cars have a cap at the fuel filler.

Edited by Stanb Sevento on 15/05/2017 at 22:08

Is the typical cost of adblue being factored into the fuel consumption figures for cars so equipped, i haven't done the sums involved is there a ball park figure, say the average equivalent cost of 0.5 or 1mpg to be accounted for?

Or is this cost another nice surprise they forgot to mention a few months down the line for the average car buyer, who will no doubt end up at (any make not just VW) main dealer paying through the nose.

Thankyou Stanb Sevento, handy to know a rough cost for car use.

You obviously know what you are doing so presume you self fill which keeps your costs down, so would twice your costs be what the average buyer pays, who needs the dealer to do the job for them?

Maybe they don't mention it by design so it becomes some awesome technical wizardry best left to the technicians at service time, does the owners handbook give instructions?

Fair enough, thankyou.

Impressed with the dealer offering top ups at retail fluid cost only.

Adblue filling on lorries couldn't be easier but that isn't stopping some of the more challenged from putting Diesel in the adblue (rare), and rather more disastrously expensive, adblue in the fuel tank (not as rare as it should be).