Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Fenham: Why It Occurs
Stop reading a minute if your diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where the vehicle sits in Fenham, is usually all it takes if found 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 doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
No single fluid but two: that is what many modern diesels around Fenham and Cowgate carry, with diesel for your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas to clean it.
Every tank has one filler of its own. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty of others have both side by side behind one flap. Diesel goes in on each forecourt visit, week in, week out. Rarely filled, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think which filler to use. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Fenham: how it takes place
Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once.
On a driveway off Olive Place before work, or in the car park at Fox and Hounds on the way home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you cars are second, too. Rentals, new cars and company cars put their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, keeps on. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Old Benwell or right in the heart of Fenham.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, on a forecourt in Fenham or a driveway out in Benwell. Seconds, that's all.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position.
- Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside your fuel flap: many cars carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it's not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Check as you collect a hire car or fleet car — at Metrocentre's car park, say — not when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
The day the light comes on, anywhere around Tyne and Wear, follow this routine.
- Stop somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Cedar Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works.
- The diesel cap remains on. When the two sit under a flap, make sure it's closed before lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at stage two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Do not go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Fenham already?
Do not start your engine: that is where the short order of things begins. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels it by itself starts your fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
On a forecourt — Esso, Morrisons or another — the attendants will usually help push your car clear, if you ask. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Fenham.
When the engine has been run already, stop safely and switch it off. Fenham sits under 3 miles from the Central Motorway East; there, use the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Fenham.
What happens when we turn up in Fenham
Anywhere your car has stopped, whether by Sacred Heart Primary School, near FAR - Fenham Assocation Of Residents or at home, the van comes to it. The replies settle this work and our price, so we ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. No one sets off before you have heard the price over the phone.
Next: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears away unaided, however long it is left. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. The motor is started next and checked to be sure it runs properly, all before we go.
Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are fine on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Fenham and where it is
Fenham is a suburban area located inland in Tyne and Wear, approximately 2.1 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Fenham sits at an elevation of around 122 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Fenham is close to nearby places such as Old Benwell, East Denton, and Blakelaw, and is situated about 248.3 miles north of London. Fenham has a population of around 10264 people.
AdBlue drains around Fenham, and Tyne and Wear beyond
Fenham is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns near it, East Denton and Blakelaw among them, across the NE postcode area. A postcode starting NE4 9 gets the van to you fastest.
Your car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Fenham Pool, a lay-by on the way to King George's Field, a drive. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Fenham Library? Close to a border? Asking beats assuming, so phone.
Fenham drivers: the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it wherever it is, anywhere around Tyne and Wear: keep it off and call 0333 366 0103.