AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Kibblesworth: Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when the motor hasn't turned, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where the vehicle is around Kibblesworth. Reading in advance? In that case what follows covers why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all.
AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers
Diesel feeds your engine — but many newer diesels driven about Kibblesworth and Urpeth hold another fluid too. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at each filling station call-out, again and again. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less frequently. It is in that gap that the error lives.
Kibblesworth: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens
It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Kibblesworth Bank before work, or in the car park at Kibblesworth Working Mens Club on the way home.
Unfamiliar cars come second, too. Hire cars, new cars and company vehicles place their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap it used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Kibblesworth or out in Lamesley.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you pour anything, whether on a drive in Allerdene or a forecourt in Kibblesworth, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there saying which fuel goes where.
- Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? In that case look below the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook says where.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Dunston, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Tyne and Wear that is.
- Not in a rush on the side of Prospect Terrace, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park and switch off properly.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — after you have found the filler and read the cap.
- The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, make sure it is closed before the bottle comes up.
- Stop when that tank fills or the bottle is empty; before that, tip gently through the own spout.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you have already poured into the diesel side. Stage five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Kibblesworth?
Do not start the engine: that's where the short order of things starts. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
The attendants at Sainsbury's, JET or another forecourt will normally help pushing the vehicle away when asked. At home in Kibblesworth? So the car remains where it is.
Already started? Pull over when it is safe, then turn off. Kibblesworth sits under 3 miles from the A1(M); on it, use the first exit. A short hop across Kibblesworth is a smaller job than a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went.
Our arrival around Kibblesworth, and what takes place next
Anywhere your car came to rest, whether by Kibblesworth Academy, near Millenium Centre or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Which liquid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: our engineers ask because the replies set both work and quote. No one heads out before you have had our quote by phone.
Then that tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes out by itself. Hence it matters more. Filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the car. We do not leave until it has been fired up and is running correctly.
Unstarted cars mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we're on the way.
About Kibblesworth and where it is
Kibblesworth is a village in Tyne and Wear, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 45 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Kibblesworth lies approximately 5 miles south of Newcastle upon Tyne, near the villages of Lamesley and Old Ravensworth. Kibblesworth has a population of around 1223 residents, who live in a relatively small and quiet community. Kibblesworth is located about 243 miles north of London, in the North East region of England.
AdBlue drains about Kibblesworth, and Tyne and Wear beyond
Being a village, Kibblesworth has the same vans as surrounding areas — Old Ravensworth, Lady Park — right across NE postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting NE11 0.
No need to shift the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near Kibblesworth Methodist Church, a lay-by on the way to Bowes Valley Nature Reserve, a driveway. Guessing won't help behind Foliate Form, on a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; phone and ask.
For Kibblesworth motorists, the short version
Always, the cap; after that, the tip. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it where it is, anywhere in Tyne and Wear: keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103.