--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Colliery Row? Next Steps canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/colliery-row-tyne-and-wear/ location: Colliery Row county: Tyne and Wear latitude: 54.839270 longitude: -1.495500 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-25 --- # What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Colliery Row What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: whether the motor has been run since it got in. Not started yet? Then leave the car like that, whether the car sits — Colliery Row or Sedgeletch. Phone 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor still off. Across Colliery Row, that is generally drained and cleaned on the spot. When the engine has been run, stop somewhere safe first, then turn it off. A larger job, yes, yet the identical first step. Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever across Tyne and Wear it happened. ## Colliery Row forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump You are at the petrol pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. It might be the Esso, or the JET, or a different forecourt in Colliery Row. Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. The AdBlue is in your tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in. What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you push your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Can't move the vehicle by the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt sensible, so we can drain the vehicle where it is. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Colliery Row drive? Days had passed with the dash light on. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened on the driveway. It occurs on drives just off Medway Close as often as anywhere. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of that tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that. What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Your drive is where it gets drained, whether around Colliery Row or Chilton Moor. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night. ## Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Colliery Row? A mile or two after filling up, your engine began misbehaving: roughness, smoke, lost power, warnings on the dash. Front Street, perhaps, or the way towards Durham — a run of under 10 miles. The point: the system has drawn AdBlue in already. Mileage sets how deep it goes: filter and lines to begin with, then the high-pressure pump and every injector. More miles, more restarts: deeper it travels. Next: pick a sensible place, stop, and switch the engine off. Leave by the first junction — not the services further along — if you are on the A1(M), under 3 miles from Colliery Row. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue doesn't clear on its own. Tell us know the distance driven when you call. ## A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank? It's a motor you have had for a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. It can happen to anyone, anywhere around Tyne and Wear. What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. Many hire and company contracts require the owner's approval before work. What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians get there than after. Waiting for an answer at the car park at Chester-Le-Street, or beside St Andrew? Keep the car off meanwhile. ## Colliery Row: unsure if it was AdBlue in your diesel tank? At times, "I think so" is all anyone can truthfully say. A slight ammonia smell hangs around your filler, the bottle seems too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. It might have been at a friend's drive in Burnside, or in a rush by Dubmire Primary at the school run. What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no harm to your engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another matter. If there is AdBlue in the tank, starting the vehicle would suck it in, and it would not tell you which either. What to do: treat it as if it was put in. Don't start it. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier result than a run one drained. ## What each AdBlue drain in Colliery Row has in common Whichever situation you are in, the job starts the same way. Filling station, driveway, The Beehive's car park or a street by Bank Head Church — our van comes to your car, and three questions follow: what liquid, what quantity, and if it ran. The price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and the replies shape the job. Then your tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally come the filter, flushed or renewed if necessary; clean diesel; and a test of your car. The majority of unstarted vehicles are a half-hour visit after the moment our engineers get there. Finally, our technicians fire it up. Our test that it runs properly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. The entire job is done where the car is, and if it is caught early, permanent damage is very uncommon. Nothing is paid upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what your insurer asks for: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Check your insurance before we arrive: misfuelling cover comes built into plenty of policies. ## About Colliery Row and where it is Colliery Row is a locality situated on the riverside in Tyne and Wear, with an elevation of 51 metres above sea level. Colliery Row lies near the city of Durham, approximately 5.5 miles away, and is close to other nearby places such as Chilton Moor and Fence Houses. Colliery Row has a population of around 2022 people and features predominantly terraced housing. Colliery Row is located in the North East region of England, about 237.1 miles north of London. ## AdBlue drains around Colliery Row, and across Tyne and Wear too Fence Houses and High Dubmire get the same teams as Colliery Row, a small village, along with further towns over DH postcodes. The whereabouts is quickest from a postcode that starts DH4 6. Centre of Colliery Row or a layby near Joe's Pond: either way it is, the vehicle never needs to move at all for this drain. Our technicians drain the car where it is. Phone and check rather than guess when you're by Rainton Meadows Arena, on a boundary, or somewhere tricky to pin down. ## Your situation, summed up Not run yet: keep the car off then call. Run already? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whatever it is, across Colliery Row and Tyne and Wear, on 0333 366 0103.