Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Choppington: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. Around Choppington, finding it before your motor turns normally means a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Here in advance? In that case the rest explains why it happens and what to prevent it happening at all.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel vehicle
Plenty of newer diesels around Bomarsund, like those in Choppington, carry on two fluids; your motor gets just your diesel. Its own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, where spraying cleans the gas.
Each tank has its own filler. Some vehicles keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side behind one flap. Diesel goes in at each filling station call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. The mistake grows in that gap between them.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Choppington
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Briar Close, or outside The Travellers Rest on the way home after work.
The old car's filler is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is the second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle.
No part halts the pour once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Scotland Gate or the middle of Choppington: it is the same few seconds in both.
The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart
Whether a Choppington forecourt or a drive over in North Choppington, take a few seconds on these before any goes in.
- Blue and lettering: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not its position.
- Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Lift the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in which filler right there.
- The handbook shows where it lives when the filler is not next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Bedlington? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before leaving, not when the light goes on.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
For the day the warning appears — wherever you are around Northumberland — a routine to use.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never hurried on the side of Westgreen.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Skip step five altogether.
Choppington: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch it on. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from.
At a forecourt — JET, BP or another — the staff will normally help roll your car away, when you ask. Your own driveway in Choppington is where it should stay.
Already run? Pull over once it's safe, then switch off. Choppington lies under 15 miles from the A167(M); on it, take the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Choppington.
Our arrival in Choppington, and what takes place next
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by Choppington Primary School, near Scotland Gate War Memorial or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Both the work and the price depend on three replies — which fluid, which amount, and if it's run — so we ask. You hear that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the whole system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. That is why it matters more. Filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. Before we leave, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it's running correctly.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a busy forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. While we travel, have a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Choppington, for a moment
Choppington is a village in Northumberland, situated on the riverside at a low elevation of 27 metres, near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. Choppington has a mix of housing types, with semi-detached homes being the most common, and is located close to other small communities such as Scotland Gate and Guide Post. Choppington is part of a wider rural area, with the village itself having a small population of around 974 residents. Choppington is relatively distant from London, at approximately 259 miles away.
AdBlue drains across Northumberland, Choppington included
Guide Post and Sheepwash are among the towns around Choppington, a village, that the same teams cover, over NE postcodes. A postcode starting NE62 5 gets the van to you fastest.
There's no need to move the vehicle. Draining happens on the spot, whether a driveway, a road by Choppington Social & Welfare Centre, or a layby towards Bluehouse Wood. Assuming won't help behind St. Paul the Apostle, close to a border, or somewhere awkward to describe; phone and check.
In short, for Choppington drivers
Tip nothing until you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave it off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Northumberland.