Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Blaydon Haughs: Why It Happens
Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain plus a full flush, done right where your car stands in Blaydon Haughs, is usually what it takes if caught before the engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds the engine — but many modern diesels driven around Blaydon Haughs and Lemington carry another liquid too. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there a spray cleans the fumes.
Different tanks, separate fillers. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on every forecourt call-out, again and again. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the slip lives.
How AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place around Blaydon Haughs
Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up together.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a drive off Whiteley Road before work, or in the car park outside The Bisley on the way home.
Then the car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches 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, and so nothing stops the pour after it has started. Whether it happens in Blaydon or the middle of Blaydon Haughs, it is the same few seconds.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Benwell or a forecourt around Blaydon Haughs, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Trust the cap, not its position.
- Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark what belongs in which inlet right there.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Blaydon? Ask whoever drove it last before leaving, rather than once the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere across Tyne and Wear, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Chainbridge Road.
- Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — after you have located the filler and read it.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, and check again — confirm your diesel filler remained closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Don't carry on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Blaydon Haughs?
The short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch the vehicle on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the pump if you are on a forecourt — the Morrisons, the Shell or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway in Blaydon Haughs.
Already run? Stop once it is sensible, then switch off. On the Central Motorway East, under 5 miles from Blaydon Haughs, that means the next exit. A short hop across Blaydon Haughs is a smaller job than a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 5 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
What takes place when we turn up in Blaydon Haughs
Wherever the car has stopped, whether by Blaydon West Primary School, beside Kingdom Hall or at home, our van travels to it. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and if it has run, since the answers settle the work and our quote. Nobody sets off until you've heard our quote by phone.
Then your tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither clears away by itself. Hence it counts more. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and your car is tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit from arrival. The equipment is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no money upfront. It is worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies.
About Blaydon Haughs and where it is
Blaydon Haughs is a small suburban area located on the banks of the River Tyne in north-east England, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Blaydon Haughs sits near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, which is approximately 3.8 miles away, and is part of the wider Tyne and Wear conurbation. Blaydon Haughs has a relatively low elevation of around 6 metres above sea level, reflecting its riverside setting. Blaydon Haughs is close to nearby places such as Blaydon and Scotswood, and is situated near the Bells Close area.
Blaydon Haughs and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
Over NE postcodes, our vans covering Blaydon Haughs — a residential suburb — work the nearby spots too, Scotswood and Bells Close included. A postcode starting NE21 5 gets our van to you fastest.
No need to move your car. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road by Inline Fitness Centre, or a layby on the way to Shibdon Pond Local Nature Reserve. Assuming won't help behind Blaydon Library, close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe; ring and ask.
The short version for Blaydon Haughs drivers
Always, the cap; then, the pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it is, wherever across Tyne and Wear: keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.