Friars Goose: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Leave It Off
If AdBlue has gone into the diesel tank, keep the motor off and leave the ignition off. Urea dissolved in water is what AdBlue is. Not like fuel, it neither burns nor mixes, and nothing starts till your engine sucks it round. If the motor has not run yet, AdBlue in a diesel tank is normally emptied and carefully purged where your car sits around Friars Goose. Ring 0333 366 0103 before you do anything else.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Friars Goose: the first few minutes
Things to do:
- Take your keys out, so nobody switches your ignition on.
- If you're at all close to moving traffic, put the hazards on.
- Which fluid, and roughly how much amount? Hang on to the bottle or your receipt, and we can see.
- Ring us from where you are. A postcode starting NE10 0, or the name of the nearest street, gets our van to you without a search.
Do not:
- Don't start your motor, even for a moment to move the car.
- Your ignition stays off: on many diesels, switching it on is enough to start your pump.
- Adding extra diesel doesn't help: AdBlue settles out instead of blending.
- Even a short stretch up Green Lane is too far to drive the vehicle.
- Emptying the tank yourself by the road is not one to try.
Rolling the vehicle off the island is a job for attendants to help with, whichever Friars Goose forecourt you're on, the Jet or any other. Stopped on your own drive? Then it remains exactly where it is.
AdBlue in a diesel tank, and what it does there
AdBlue is made for the exhaust, not the engine. Stored in a dedicated tank, it is injected into the exhaust to clean the fumes. Nothing in it is supposed to pass through a fuel pump, and nothing in a fuel pump is designed to handle it.
Fuel blends; AdBlue, after poured in, will not. Its behaviour is not at all like diesel's. The intake takes fuel from the deepest part of your tank, and that's just where AdBlue settles: being denser than diesel, it sinks. Easiest of all: a vehicle that had AdBlue in Old Fold last night and has not turned since. The AdBlue sits at the foot of your tank, untouched — though it would be the first thing through if your motor starts, before any diesel at all.
After it's drawn in, the harm comes in two forms. What remains when the water evaporates is urea, which turns into crystals: they settle in tiny channels and clog filters. Worse, it eats at some metals in the fuel system, and carries on until it is cleared out. A vehicle left sitting around Friars Goose with AdBlue already in its lines is worse by the morning; one with AdBlue only in its tank isn't. Water protects nothing. The high-pressure pump and each injector need diesel flowing through them, so the water part damages them by itself.
Why AdBlue in a diesel is frequently more significant than petrol
A fault of thinned fuel is what you end up with from fuelling a diesel with petrol at the JET. Blended into your diesel and sitting still, it is harmless for now; running the engine is the harm.
AdBlue in a diesel is an issue of the wrong substance altogether. Not burning, it cannot simply be run through. Deposits and corrosion stay through the following tankful, and AdBlue separates again from the diesel, so watering it can't help. Hence the flush counts so much, and trying your engine "to see" costs more with AdBlue than nearly any other mistake — in Heworth Shore or the centre of Friars Goose alike.
As with petrol, there is good news. Never started? Then the AdBlue waits just in your tank, the simplest bit of the whole system to empty, anywhere your car has come to rest across Tyne and Wear.
How does AdBlue end up in a diesel tank in Friars Goose?
After dark, two caps together — the AdBlue cap and the diesel cap, now and then behind a single flap — can appear the same. Nobody means it; many designs invite it. It mostly happens at home, from a container bought on the journey home, not at the filling station.
Mostly, it takes place in one of a few familiar ways. Rushing, outside St Vincents Catholic Primary School, Newcastle, after a warning lamp came on during the school run, someone tops up the vehicle. A bottle is poured in at the end of the day on a drive just off Tyne Main Road. Or your car is topped up in the car park outside The Merchant's Tavern, in poor light, by someone who has never opened that flap before.
Hired cars, brand-new cars, fleet cars, or the second car in a home with both fuels: the least familiar cars get it most. An identical slip, an identical first step — leave it off — wherever you are around Friars Goose or the rest of Tyne and Wear.
Friars Goose: started the engine with AdBlue in the diesel tank?
In that case, the AdBlue is no longer in the tank. The filter and pipework have had it sucked along, and any running time takes it on to the injection pump and each injector.
Perhaps returning from St. Anthony's Park, or midway across Friars Goose, your motor might go lumpy, smoke, drop pace, flash the dash or cut out. No restarting to test: pull over when safe, then switch it off. Each start pulls more of that through.
If you were on the Central Motorway East, under 3 miles from Friars Goose, come off at the next junction and stop somewhere sensible instead of pressing on.
Hopping across Friars Goose to the car park by Friars Goose Pumping Station is one thing; driving towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 3 miles away, is another, since every mile pushes the AdBlue deeper in. So mileage matters. About how far it had come is worth telling us.
Our technicians do all of the cleaning where your car has stopped, and once the engine has been started there is more of it. Spotted early, it very seldom leaves lasting damage.
What clearing AdBlue from a diesel involves around Friars Goose
Our technicians come to the car, wherever it has stopped in Friars Goose: a side street close to Friars Goose Pumping Engine House, a drive, a lay-by or a forecourt. Which fluid got in, roughly the quantity, and if your engine has turned over: we ask before all else, because those shape the job.
Right there, your tank is then drained, and both the polluted diesel and the urea come out at once. A full flush counts far more after AdBlue than after petrol, because what remains won't clear away by itself. A test of the car follows at the end, once clean diesel is added and the filter is cleaned or, where needed, replaced. If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there. Quiet enough to use outside a house at night, and safe on a working forecourt, our pumps are explosion-proof.
The last step is to prime the system on fresh diesel. Then we start it and you drive off, whether from a parking space at Heworth or a driveway in Friars Goose. Before we leave, our engineers confirm it's running smoothly with new diesel in. We do it all wherever the vehicle has stopped, and it never needs to be taken to a workshop. You get a VAT invoice and an engineer report afterwards, which is what insurers ask for.
About Friars Goose itself
Friars Goose is a suburban area located on the riverside in Tyne and Wear, with a mix of terraced housing and local amenities. Friars Goose sits near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, approximately 2 miles from the city centre, and is close to nearby places such as Felling Shore and St Peters. Friars Goose has a population of around 3896 people and is situated at a low elevation of 12 metres above sea level. Friars Goose is part of the wider urban area surrounding Newcastle upon Tyne, with easy access to the city's facilities and services.
AdBlue drains across Friars Goose and Tyne and Wear
Throughout the NE postcode area, the teams taking AdBlue call-outs in Friars Goose serve most of Tyne and Wear as well, Felling Shore, St Peters and St Anthonys among them. Guessing doesn't help close to a border or anywhere tricky to describe; phone and ask.
No moving is needed. In Friars Goose, a residential suburb, a van that comes to you fits: your car is drained where it stands, whether in a driveway, a residential street, a parking area or a forecourt.
What does AdBlue in a diesel tank cost to sort out around Friars Goose?
Each job differs, and so not one single quote would be honest. What changes the price is, firstly, whether the motor has run and for how long; then how much AdBlue got in; and finally where the car is and whether our van can get to it safely, which is easier on an open drive than in a tight gap behind Fish with Two Heads.
For that reason, each call from Friars Goose opens by asking the same trio — what was put in, what quantity, whether the engine ran — ahead of a quote. Those replies turn a range into a straight quote.
Before anyone heads out, you hear our quote by phone. Then you pay on the day, card or by phone, with nothing upfront. Misfuelling cover comes with many insurance policies, so it is worth looking at yours before the van gets there.
In Friars Goose and still beside your car?
Then, the most helpful thing to do with the car is to leave it. Ignition off, engine off, keys out. Call 0333 366 0103: AdBlue, the amount, plus whether it ran is everything our engineers need. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest across Tyne and Wear, Friars Goose too.