Hasting Hill: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is around Hasting Hill. Not happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the why it happens and the how to avoid it altogether.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Many newer diesels around Middle Herrington, like those in Hasting Hill, carry on two liquids; your motor gets only the diesel. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Some motors keep the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place both together behind one flap. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less commonly. The mistake grows in the gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Hasting Hill: how it happens
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
On a driveway off Goldsmith Road before work, or in the car park at Grindon Broadway Social Club on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car tells you, and if it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
Then, the hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the pour after it has started. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Hasting Hill or out in Grindon.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Offerton or a forecourt in Hasting Hill, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- Many motors fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Sunderland.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
The day the light comes on, wherever around Tyne and Wear, use this routine.
- Not in a rush on the side of North Farm Avenue, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off first.
- Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Stop when your tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip slowly through the built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Never carry on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Hasting Hill already?
Brief list, then. First: your engine stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Diluting it with more diesel won't work, since AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than mixing — and that's where the fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at BP, JET or another forecourt will usually lend a hand to push the car away when you ask. Your own driveway around Hasting Hill is where it stays.
Already started? Stop once it is sensible, then switch off. Hasting Hill sits under 5 miles from the Western Highway; there, take the first junction. A short hop across Hasting Hill is a smaller job than a run towards Sunderland, under 3 miles away, so tell us roughly how far it went.
Hasting Hill: what takes place when our technicians arrive
By Grindon Infant School, near Round barrow on Hasting Hill or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our technicians come to it. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — what liquid, what quantity, and whether it's run — so we ask. That quote comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears out by itself. Hence it counts more. The filter flushed or, where needed, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of your car. Before leaving, our technicians fire it up and make sure that it is running correctly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our engineers get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night beside a house. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way.
About Hasting Hill and where it is
Hasting Hill is a locality situated on the riverside in Tyne and Wear, with an elevation of around 106 metres. Hasting Hill lies approximately 2.8 miles from the city of Sunderland and is near other local places such as Grindon and Thorney Close. Hasting Hill has a population of around 1577 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Hasting Hill is located in the North East region of England, about 239.6 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Tyne and Wear, Hasting Hill included
Hasting Hill is a neighbourhood, and the teams that cover it also work the places near it, Hastings Hill and Thorney Close among them, across the SR postcode area. Quote a postcode that starts SR4 9, and our van gets there quickest.
Moving your car isn't necessary. The drain happens right there, be it a drive, a street by Hasting Hill SSSI, or a lay-by towards Hasting Hill SSSI. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Oswald's Church? By a county line? Checking beats assuming, so phone.
The short version for Hasting Hill people
First, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Tyne and Wear.