AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Jesmond: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Jesmond. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it comes about and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Plenty of newer diesels around Shieldfield, as well as Jesmond, run on two liquids; your motor takes only your diesel. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to fresh it, from a separate tank.
There is a filler for each tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who has to stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the slip lives.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Jesmond?
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
Haste follows from the warning. The vehicle tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Mistletoe Road, or heading home in the car park outside Blanc.
Then the vehicle is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Lastly, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as readily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. Whether it occurs in Brandling Village or the middle of Jesmond, it is the same few seconds.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt around Jesmond or a driveway over in South Gosforth. A few seconds, that's all.
- Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside the diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual says where.
- Check with 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 Manors.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are around Tyne and Wear — a simple routine to use.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor stopped, and not in a rush beside Lily Avenue at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap was never opened off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays off limits.
Jesmond: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. Do not switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
Ask the attendants to help push your car away from the pump if you are at a forecourt — the Gulf, the Sainsbury's or somewhere else. Your own drive around Jesmond is where it stays.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit is where to come off when you're on the Clayton Road, under a mile from Jesmond. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under a mile away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Jesmond.
What occurs when our technicians get there in Jesmond
By West Jesmond Primary School, near Newcastle Spiritualist Evidence Society or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. The answers decide this work and our price, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. During the phone call itself, you are told the quote — before anything else.
After that: a drain, then a full flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, where it must be, swapped; clean diesel in; then a check of the car. Before leaving, our technicians fire it up and confirm that it is running smoothly.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a residential street late at night. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Jesmond itself
Jesmond is a suburban area located on the northern bank of the River Tyne in north-east England, sitting at an elevation of 56 metres. Jesmond is situated close to the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, with which it shares a long history of development. Jesmond is characterised by its predominantly terraced housing stock and its proximity to nearby places such as Brandling Village and West Jesmond. Jesmond is home to a population of approximately 13,134 people.
AdBlue drains in Jesmond and across Tyne and Wear
West Jesmond and Newcastle upon Tyne are among the towns near Jesmond, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout NE postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting NE2 2.
Shifting the car isn't needed. The drain takes place right there, whether a drive, a road near St. Hilda's, or a lay-by on the way to Newcastle Cricket Club. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of Fern Avenue Masonic Centre, ring and ask instead of guessing.
In short, for Jesmond drivers
Read the cap before you pour. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Tyne and Wear, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway — and so leave it off then ring 0333 366 0103.