AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Arthurs Hill: How It Happens and How to Stop It
Pause here a minute if the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, and call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your motor has not turned, it is emptied and thoroughly purged where your vehicle sits in Arthurs Hill. Reading before the event? In that case the rest covers why it happens and what to stop it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel motor
Diesel feeds your engine — but plenty of current diesels driven around Arthurs Hill and Newcastle upon Tyne hold another liquid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the layout on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt visit, week in, week out. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think what cap to use. It's in the gap that the error happens.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Arthurs Hill
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Frosterley Place before work, or in the car park outside The Black & White Bull on the way home.
Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour once it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Arthurs Hill or out in Newcastle Helix.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
A few seconds is all these take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Fenham or a forecourt in Arthurs Hill.
- Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position.
- The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: many motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If your filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Newcastle.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
Anywhere in Tyne and Wear the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Clarewood Green.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It sounds daft. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on.
- Stop once the tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, pour gently using the own spout.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Step five is off limits.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Arthurs Hill already?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the engine. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that's where the fuel is sucked from.
Ask the staff to help push the vehicle away from the pump if you're on a forecourt — the Esso, the Gulf or somewhere else. On your own drive in Arthurs Hill? So your car remains put.
When your motor has run already, stop somewhere safe and switch it off. Leave the Central Motorway East — under a mile out of Arthurs Hill — at the next exit. Mileage counts — a short hop across Arthurs Hill is a smaller job than driving under 3 miles towards Newcastle upon Tyne — so tell us roughly how far it went.
When our engineers get there around Arthurs Hill, what occurs?
By Moorside Primary School, close to Deep Life Bible Church or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the replies decide the work and our quote. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
Your system is then purged thoroughly, once that tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more with AdBlue than with petrol. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. After that our engineers fire it up and check it runs correctly before we leave.
Using pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your engine has not run take about half an hour once our engineers arrive. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It is worth checking your policy while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Arthurs Hill and where it is
Arthurs Hill is a suburban area located near the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, sitting at an elevation of around 95 metres. Arthurs Hill is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing, which reflects the area's urban development. Arthurs Hill is close to nearby places such as Newcastle Helix, Spital Tongues, and Elswick, and is situated about 1 mile from Newcastle upon Tyne. Arthurs Hill has a population of approximately 14,029 residents.
Arthurs Hill and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
Over NE postcodes, our teams covering Arthurs Hill — a residential suburb — work the surrounding spots too, Elswick and Spital Tongues among them. A postcode starting NE4 5 gets our van to you fastest.
The vehicle remains put. The drain takes place right there, be it a drive, a street by Nucastle, or a lay-by towards Baxterwood Court Park. Awkward to explain, like the back of The Angelou Centre? By a county line? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
The short version for Arthurs Hill drivers
Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Tyne and Wear.