AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Felling Shore? Keep It Switched Off
Motor off, ignition off: that's where you begin if AdBlue has got into the diesel tank. Chemically, AdBlue is just urea in water. Not like fuel, it neither ignites nor mixes, and nothing starts until the motor pulls it through. Caught before the engine has run, AdBlue in a diesel tank is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Felling Shore. First, phone us on 0333 366 0103.
Your next steps straight away, Felling Shore: AdBlue in the diesel tank
Things to do:
- So nobody can switch the ignition on, take your keys away.
- Close to moving traffic? So put the hazard lights on.
- The empty bottle or your receipt tells us the product and the quantity, and so don't throw it away.
- The van locates you fastest with a postcode starting NE10 0, or simply the name of a street nearby, so call from the car.
Not to do:
- Moving the vehicle even a few yards is no reason to start the engine.
- Turning your key to ignition by itself sets your pump going on many diesels. Skip it.
- AdBlue does not dilute in diesel — it separates out — so adding extra diesel won't weaken it.
- Any driving at all is best avoided, including a short way down Green Lane.
- Emptying that tank yourself by the road is not one to try.
Rolling the vehicle away from the island is a job for staff to help with, whichever Felling Shore forecourt you are on, the Jet included. Stopped on your own drive? Then it stays just where it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank: what it does
The motor isn't what AdBlue is made for; the exhaust is. Stored in a dedicated tank, it is squirted into the exhaust to clean the fumes. No part in an injection pump is made for this fluid — and none of that was meant to go that way.
Inside a diesel tank it acts really differently from fuel. It does not mix in. It drops, because it's denser than diesel, and settles low where the pickup draws its supply from. When the pump runs, the AdBlue is first to go through. Before then it waits underneath the diesel, which is how a car filled in East Gateshead last night and not switched on remains the simple one, as long as no one turns your key.
After it is pulled in, the damage comes in two forms. It eats at certain metals used in fuel components, working on whatever it reaches until it is cleared from the system. And once the water evaporates, the urea turns into crystals that clog filters and settle in narrow passages. A vehicle left sitting in Felling Shore with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue just in its tank is not. The water in it does harm of its own: your high-pressure pump and the injectors rely on diesel to lubricate them, and water gives them nothing.
Why AdBlue in a diesel is often more serious than petrol
Top up a diesel with petrol by mistake at the JET, and the problem is thinned fuel. No harm is done while it sits unused, blended into the diesel — only once your engine works on it.
The issue with AdBlue in a diesel is a totally wrong substance. It doesn't burn, so it can't simply be run through. Nor can it be thinned, since it splits again — and the following tankful will not rinse away crystals or corrosion. So the flush matters more with AdBlue, and trying the engine "to see", in the heart of Felling Shore or out in Felling, costs more than nearly any other slip.
The same good news holds as with petrol. Not run? Then the AdBlue waits just in your tank, the easiest bit of the entire system to empty, anywhere your car has come to rest across Tyne and Wear.
How AdBlue ends up in a diesel tank around Felling Shore
After dark, two caps side by side — the AdBlue one and the diesel one, occasionally behind one flap — can look the same. Nobody means it; many designs invite it. Usually it is never the forecourt: a driver picks up a bottle heading home and pours it in outside the house.
The ways it happens are few and familiar. A warning light comes on during the school run, and the top-up happens in a hurry outside St Vincents Catholic Primary School, Newcastle. A driver tips the bottle in at home, right off Tyne Main Road, as the day ends. Otherwise, in dim light by The Merchant's Tavern, your vehicle is topped up by a driver opening that flap the first time.
It crops up most in a hire car, a new motor, a fleet vehicle, or the other car of a home with both fuels — the cars drivers know least. Leave it switched off: that is the first response to the same slip, wherever in Felling Shore or the remainder of Tyne and Wear you happen to be.
Already started the motor with AdBlue in the diesel tank around Felling Shore?
The AdBlue has left the tank, then. Given any running, it travels to the injection pump and each injector, having passed via the filter and pipework.
Rough running, smoke from the exhaust, dropping power, dashboard lights or cutting out: any may appear, perhaps midway across Felling Shore or returning from St. Anthony's Park. Stop as soon as it is safe, switch off, and don't restart it to check. Every start pulls more of it through.
Felling Shore lies under 3 miles from the Central Motorway East; if you were on it, exit at the next junction and stop safely rather than driving on.
Hopping across Felling Shore to the car park by Friars Goose Pumping Engine House is one matter; driving for Newcastle upon Tyne, under 3 miles away, is something else, since each mile pushes the AdBlue deeper in. So mileage matters. About how far it had come is worth telling us.
Once your engine has run, the flush includes more, and all of it is done where the vehicle has ended up. Very seldom does it leave permanent damage if it is noticed soon.
Felling Shore: how AdBlue is cleared from a diesel
Our technicians come to the vehicle, wherever it has stopped around Felling Shore: a side street close to Friars Goose Pumping Station, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. The job rests on three replies, which our engineers ask for first — which fluid went in, the quantity, and if your engine has turned over.
The polluted diesel and the urea leave together when your tank is drained, right there. Your system is purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol, because what it leaves behind does not rinse out on its own. After that, the filter: cleaned, or changed when it has to be. After that clean diesel, then a test of the car. The majority of these jobs are a half-hour job once our technicians turn up, if the motor has not run. Quiet enough to use outside a house at night, and safe on a busy forecourt, the pumps are explosion-proof.
Priming your system with fresh diesel comes last. Starting the car comes next, and then you drive off from where the vehicle is parked, by Heworth or on a drive around Felling Shore. Our technicians make sure it runs smoothly on new diesel before we leave. Since the job is done in its entirety where the vehicle is, a workshop never comes into it. You receive a VAT invoice and an engineer report later, which is what insurers ask for.
About Felling Shore and where it is
Felling Shore is a suburban area located on the riverside in Tyne and Wear, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Felling Shore sits near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, approximately 2 miles from the city centre, and is close to nearby places such as Friars Goose and Old Fold. Felling Shore has a relatively low elevation of 19 metres above sea level, reflecting its riverside setting. Felling Shore is part of the larger urban area surrounding Newcastle upon Tyne, with easy access to the city's amenities.
Felling Shore and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
The vans that answer AdBlue call-outs around Felling Shore also cover the places round it, Friars Goose, Old Fold and St Peters among them, and most of Tyne and Wear beyond, across the NE postcode area. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe, ring and ask rather than assuming.
No towing is needed. In Felling Shore, a residential suburb, a mobile service fits: your vehicle is emptied on the spot, whether in a driveway, a side street, a car park or a filling station.
What AdBlue in a diesel tank costs to put right around Felling Shore
There is no fair single quote, because the jobs are not the same. Three things move the price: whether the engine has been running and for how long, how much AdBlue got in, and where the car is. That last one rests on whether our van can get to it safely, and an open driveway is simpler than a tight spot behind Gateshead International Stadium.
With that in mind, every call from Felling Shore begins by asking the same trio — what got in, what quantity, if the engine ran — ahead of a quote. Given them, a range shrinks to one fixed number.
You hear that quote by phone, before anybody sets off, and you pay on the day, by card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Look at your policy whilst we're on the way: plenty include misfuelling cover.
Felling Shore: still next to your car?
Then, the best thing to do with your vehicle is to not touch it. Motor off, keys out, ignition off. Ring 0333 366 0103 and tell us it is AdBlue, roughly how much, and whether it has run. Petrol in Diesel takes it from there, around Felling Shore or anywhere around Tyne and Wear.