This is interesting. Can you show us more high-quality photos, with better lighting? In the USA we get 5 years of free adblue replacement at the dealerships.
Also what does “many different threats” mean?

 

Also what does “many different threats” mean?

Threads.

 

Why is there a battery in the spare wheel well? Have you ever filled up the adblu before? My 2014 doesn't use it maybe yours is the same.

 

I cant be too certain about that , because my car is a second hand, however this is my first time see this prompt on my dashboard display.

 

The dual battery set-up which was standard on the V10 was an option for some markets where it's a bit colder, notably Scandinavia.

If there's no tank in the trunk there's normally no ad-blu system installed, but it's very strange if there really is no adblue system that the car displays an out of adblu warning and won't start.

 

Threads.

thank you , yes thats what i meant to say

 

If you go to your local VW dealer ask them to print a copy if the build sheets, also called the data sheets, for your car: several pages of very useful information every owner should have.

 

Thank you , i will give it a try , hopefully they can be helpful , this time

 

Hi , i want to locate the Adblue tank cap , to refill it, may you guys help , my car is a 2009 touareg v6 TDI Diesel (CASA)... i have been to many different threats and they seems to have theirs on the boot/trunk right under the spare wheel , but unfortunately for my car i find a battery there. I will appreciate the help, my car cannot move because it say it need a replacement of AdBlue help!!!!! View attachment 246634

Addition;

Its important to note that my car is Europe style Details are below
F VIN is WVGZZZ7LZ9D029714 and engine number is CAS063146, VW Touareg I (7LA, 7L6, 7L7) 3.0L V6 TDI Diesel , Sport Utility , Release year 2009.
What i have done so far , i tried to trace the exhaust system, unfortunately i didnt find the Adblue-injector(the intercept where it meets the catalyst converter), however i found 2 tanks underneath my car at the rear a big one and a small one , which i believe it for diesel-tank and the Adblue-tank, from there i am not able to trace anything beyond the surface.

I was looking for things like this part below , to help locate the cap filler , unfortunately could see a thing.

Re-Cap , prior of seeing this display on the dash(screen). For about a week(last week) every morning or for every "first-start" , my car will emit a very cloudy smoke through exhaust pipes and its performance was very bad in the road(pick up and accelerating wise). now at the time when this message prompted, my car came to a total stop which i had to have it towed to my place, now it cannot move , because it was prompting to add Adblue.... Now i bought the Adblue-solution, but i cant see where the cap is .

 

I don't believe your Touareg has an adblue tank. But why would it say to add it? Erm..... What does the owners handbook say? I would VCDS scan it and see what fault codes are logged.

(54) How to fill AdBlue or DEF Fluid in a VW Touareg Tdi - YouTube

Try resetting the warning.
(54) VW Touareg TDI Diesel Adblue Reset - YouTube

 

I don't believe your Touareg has an adblue tank. But why would it say to add it? Erm..... What does the owners handbook say? I would VCDS scan it and see what fault codes are logged.

(54) How to fill AdBlue or DEF Fluid in a VW Touareg Tdi - YouTube

Try resetting the warning.
(54) VW Touareg TDI Diesel Adblue Reset - YouTube

Thank you so much for your input , i really really what to believe that too , but however is so weird that i have a prompt of something that i cant even locate, and not to say the car is at a total stop now. Unfortunately i dont have the user's manual for the car....

 

I suspect the car may have had its software updated to US standards when it originally was a Scandinavian car and did not have a adblue system and had different software. The car is now complaining about the conflict.

just my guess

cheers
Rohan

 

Go on to ERWIN - Volkswagen AG erWin Online, pay for an hours access and download you VIN's specific details. You will find everything needed to assist you in finding about adblue.

 

Go on to ERWIN - Volkswagen AG erWin Online, pay for an hours access and download you VIN's specific details. You will find everything needed to assist you in finding about adblue.

Nice i will check it out, keep in mind i have already been to this site Free VIN and Vehicle History Check. 3 years back , and i got my car specs in more details there , however as i go through them , i dont see anywher they talk about AdBlue on my car , this was paid for full details and history of the car...... But i will just check your suggested link maybe they can pull out something different.

 

Hi guys I’m tryna reset my adblue and its not letting me, I’m tryna do everything but it’s not letting me even wit the vag com im too the point of disconnect the battery and see if it reset... adblue is at 200 i got the warnings sign at 450

 

What?

 

When I talk about your VIN specific details I am not referring to PR codes but all the user maintence manuals, general technical information and self study guides associated which your VIN.

 

Thank you so much , that what i have realized , i have been to the site and because of my location(Toronto,Canada) i am not able to play around it(register) , I am in the middle of try to twerk my browsers location to try to have access.

 

Hi , i want to locate the Adblue tank cap , to refill it, may you guys help , my car is a 2009 touareg v6 TDI Diesel (CASA)... i have been to many different threads and they seems to have theirs on the boot/trunk right under the spare wheel , but unfortunately for my car i find a battery there. I will appreciate the help, my car cannot move because it say it need a replacement of AdBlue help!!!!!

Did you look under the battery? I have to remove the driver’s seat to access the battery, why wouldn’t you need to remove the battery to access adblue? 🤔 I doubt they moved the reservoir to put in the auxiliary battery.

 

yes , i removed the (back)battery complict , unfortunately nothing in there , nothing at all , only saw the metal frame of the car NOTHING

yes , i removed the (back)battery completely , unfortunately nothing in there , nothing at all , only saw the metal frame of the car NOTHING... I also removed the rear mud covers/shields to have a look , still nothing in there , no tank that can point to,. to suspect is an adBlue tank

 

Is there a spare tire? Remove the spare. My 2013 has the filler cap under the spare tire.

 

yes , there is a spare tire and underneath it is a second battery

 

updates

i have a very interesting thing happening, first let me say this my car is still not driving ,still to this day.
i recently had the ECU TUNING and had DPF deleted , also the fuel pump replaced , after this was done ,the car was able to be driven from the mechanic , on the way the car died again about a kilometer from the garage , the mechanic took it back and now is only cranking but not starting same thing it was doing when it was prompting the adblue, however the car now is not prompting anything and even on the diagnostics is not detecting any fault except the fan(A/C) , said my mechanic. Any help or idea to have this car going?, why cranking and not showing faults?.

Thank you

 

UPDATES:

Well the car now starts , and drives okay....
Fuel pump at the back was replaced, the one under the seats.
ECU Tunning was performed to delete the Adblue module(files).
After all this was done the car had couple of problem starting, however not showing any error codes, i had the battery swapped one of them was new.
The weird thing is that my mechanic Advised me to always have my car above quarter tank(diesel gauge).

Current problem,
It is believed that the alternate is not working , but this is to be confirmed by mechanic, we believe that the batterie/s are not being charged.
"?Question= if the alternator is not functional can this show on the error codes? vag-com"

"?Oil leak problem" ,
Prior to these problems, i had pretty much changed the seals, water-pumps being replaced at the engine side for oil leaks, however i am still experiencing oil leaks, Are there any possible common areas that i can further look close to, where it might be leaking?.

I appreciate your inputs guys , thank you very much and enjoy your holidays.

 

Can't help on the alternator but the advice to not run the tank below 1/4 full was something that came about on the Generation 3 cars that were suffering disastrous HPFP failures due to poor quality fuel, lack of lubricity and pressurised hot fuel not needed by the engine being returned to the tank via an inadequate fuel cooler.

For anyone with a Webasto heater on a timer, the heater doesn't operate if the tank is less than 1/4 full.

 

@TommiT , thank you so much there is surely something new to learn with this car(/s) but i love them to the core.
If it wasn't for your inputs all this would have been so difficult to breakthrough.

"HPFP failures due inadequate fuel cooler" , i guess this is something that can be rectified, right? maybe by replacing "fuel cooler".

NOTE; One thing i forgot to mention from my previous post , there was fuse being blown out( maybE fuse 14, which mechanic said was related to the fuel-pump/Starter), this is just a side note for guys to reference.

Anyways, hope you having a fantastic holidays.

 

I don't think anyone has replaced the fuel cooler.

The "treat 1/4 as E" is something owners on forums have come up with as a work around together with using a good diesel fuel additive to improve fuel lubricity.

 

Hello Guys

Please i need some more help , following this i havent been driving the car often...

Problem:
As I was driving the car , it kept on just stopping while driving , I mean literally just stop running(engine) while on the highway, I had it towered multiple times. And I also brought it to my mechanic, who suggested I change the fuel pump which I then did,however the problem still persistented. Note only the right side fuel pump was changed , the one at the driverside backseat. I brought back the car to the mechanic a couple times since the problem was still there "shutting off while driving", at this point the mechanic suggested that since there were no error-codes showing, to make sure that I always drive the car with at least more than half tank full of diesel.

I followed the advice , drove it for a couple months fully tanked , at some point I had it dropped to half tank , then the car died(shut off). Had it towered again, I then personally opened the tanks, from the right-side discovered that there was no diesel at all(the side where the pump was changed twice), however at the left-side there was too much of the diesel full to the "top".
I have attached a picture of the lid cap from the leftside of the tank , I am just worried that maybe the pump is not able to transfer the fuel in between. And also discovered that there was no connection to the 3 triangular shaped pin adapter (circled in purple). Is that port/pin supposed to be connected to something?. Side note, i didnt see the bottle-horsing on the leftside , rather it was just a baseball half sized shaped seating at the bottom with only one connection to this lid, mind you i have been using the car for about 5year , is this normal?.

Please help/advice because this is the second pump(right) I replaced in a period of a year.

It is also important to note that, there were instances where when the car approached half tank and shut itself down , I topped it up with extra fuel on the side-road then it ran , but this time around that didn't work and now the car can not even start at all, before then it was just cranking till eventually couldnt start.

Will highly appreciate your help…🙏

 

I can't really follow along, but there are two pumps, one on each side of the tank.... so if one of the chambers is empty and the other is full, the one that's full has a dead pump.
Do you have VCDS? Do you have wiring diagrams? Do you know what you are doing?

 

I can't really follow along, but there are two pumps, one on each side of the tank.... so if one of the chambers is empty and the other is full, the one that's full has a dead pump.
Do you have VCDS? Do you have wiring diagrams? Do you know what you are doing?

Great for your input, everything pretty much sum up to what you suggesting.....

I tried to give so much explaination to try and highlight that the car is "Europen-right hand driven" , as i wasnt sure if the orintation will be the same design for toaureg in Europe and America. I do have the VagCom , not sure if thats the same as the vcd and/or can do the same, and note there were no errors populating on the VagCom.

In a nutshel the car died on a highway, while there was diesel on the leftside of the car, the gauge at that time was half on a display. The emptyside which is the rightside , i then directly put the diesel there , however the car still cannot start/run , but before when i did this it was runing.

And i would have suspected that the leftside is the one which is not working since is full of diesel(gas) , however the mechanic suggested otherwise.

Assuming the picture below is of EU- Touareg 2009, at 16 rather than seeing that whole pump(this is leftside where the fuel is full) i was seeing a baseball-half shaped mounted at the bottom , and also didnt see 22 which i believe is the connection to the pink circle above(previous pic) . This is where too i am lost because i tried to search for the similar thing(pump diagrams) but couldnt find nothing. Mind u, i been driving it for over 5 years now and this is first time going to the fuel-pumps.

I hope you get it, highly appreciated...

 

Let's see this "vagcom" that you have, and post a full scan from it showing no errors! You rarely get any diagnostic tool that won't report anything when a vehicle shuts off\doesn't start.

 

From the last post, i have asked what that port on a pink circle is for , perheps you can hit some of ideas around that if you know?.

Also, I have attached a fresh picture of the inside tank on the leftside(passenger) , i will be delighted if you can take a look at it and tell me if thats normal and/or if i might be missing something?. Also note that the tank there is still full of diesel.

NOTE: I do have a record(scan result) of the scanner right at the point where the car died, this is the point when the car tried to start and made numerous attempts to start. For now, i am not sure if you can do a scan on a died car.
Also i was informed that a pump is a mechanic thing so it wont show on a scanner results since there is no digital control-module for it.
Anyways, i will find that record and share it here since you want to see, maybe you will be able to assist with the interpretation.