--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Kenton Bank Foot? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/kenton-bank-foot-tyne-and-wear/ location: Kenton Bank Foot county: Tyne and Wear latitude: 55.013960 longitude: -1.679240 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-14 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kenton Bank Foot: Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Kenton Bank Foot. Here before the event? In that case the rest covers how it happens and what to prevent it ever happening. ## Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car Plenty of modern diesels around Newcastle Great Park, as well as Kenton Bank Foot, run on two fluids; your engine gets just the diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Every tank has a filler of its own. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less frequently, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives. ## Kenton Bank Foot: how AdBlue in your diesel tank occurs Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them. First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from the vehicle, and running out means limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off The Gables, or at Twin Farms on the way home that evening. The old car's filler is where your hand reaches — but a rental car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is a second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle. Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and once the tip starts, nothing stops it. It takes seconds, whether in Kingston Park or right in the centre of Kenton Bank Foot. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Fawdon or a forecourt in Kenton Bank Foot. - Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits. - The size. On many cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - A label inside the fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it. - In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which. - The previous driver will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — at Blaydon's car park, perhaps — rather than when the light appears. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank Wherever across Tyne and Wear the light comes on, here is a routine for that day. - Stop somewhere level, motor off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of The Crescent. - Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've located the filler and read the cap. - The diesel cap stays on. Where the two share a flap, confirm it is closed before the bottle comes up. - Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, then look once more — making sure your diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start your car. Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the diesel filler? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Kenton Bank Foot? What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. Leave the ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts the fuel pump. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where the fuel is taken from. If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Tesco or the Shell, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Kenton Bank Foot. When your engine has been run by now, stop somewhere safe and turn it off. The next junction is the place to leave when you are on the A167(M), under 5 miles from Kenton Bank Foot. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 5 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Kenton Bank Foot. ## Kenton Bank Foot: what takes place when our engineers get there Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Kingston Park Primary School, close to Kingston Park or on your own driveway. Our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since those answers settle the work and the quote. You hear that quote by phone, before anyone heads out. Then that tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at some fuel-system metals, and neither clears away unaided. That is why it counts more. Filter cleaned or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a test of the car. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly. Unstarted cars usually need a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies. ## About Kenton Bank Foot Kenton Bank Foot is a suburban area located inland in Tyne and Wear, sitting at an elevation of 78 metres. Kenton Bank Foot is situated approximately 3.7 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, and is near other local areas such as Kingston Park and Newbiggin Hall Estate. Kenton Bank Foot has a population of around 2570 people, and is characterised by predominantly semi-detached housing. Kenton Bank Foot is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 250.6 miles. ## AdBlue drains round Kenton Bank Foot, and Tyne and Wear beyond As a residential suburb, Kenton Bank Foot has the same vans as nearby places — Newbiggin Hall Estate, Woolsington — right across NE postcodes and the surrounding area around them. A postcode starting NE13 8 gets the van to you fastest. Moving your car is not needed. Wherever it stands — beside Marks & Spencer, on a lay-by en route to Westerhope Golf Club, at home — that is where it gets drained. Guessing won't help behind Church of St John the Evangelist, close to a border, or anywhere hard to describe; phone and ask. ## The short version for Kenton Bank Foot motorists Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere across Tyne and Wear, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.