Malvins Close: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page down for now, leave your ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it's usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Malvins Close. The rest of this page covers why it happens and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Plenty of newer diesels in Newsham, as well as Malvins Close, run on two liquids; your motor gets just the diesel. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from its own tank.
There's a filler on each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up all the time. Someone who has to stop and think where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. Mistakes happen in that gap between the two.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Malvins Close: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Prince's Gardens before work, or in the car park at Percy Arms heading home: that's where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and once it's gone, limp mode follows.
The old car's cap is where your hand reaches — yet a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car keeps the fillers elsewhere. That is the second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the tip after it has started. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Malvins Close or out in Cowpen.
The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart
Be it a Malvins Close forecourt or a drive out in New Delaval, take a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Newsham.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank
The day the light goes on, anywhere around Northumberland, follow this routine.
- Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Queen's Gardens.
- Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have found your filler and read the cap.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Stop when the tank fills or the bottle runs dry; until then, tip gently through its built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Malvins Close?
Short order, then. Top of it: the motor stays off. Keep the ignition off as well, because on many diesels it by itself starts the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to thin it.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Blyth Service Station or the Asda, ask the staff to help push your car clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive around Malvins Close, leave the car where it stands.
Already run? Pull over once it is sensible, then switch off. On the A167(M), under 15 miles from Malvins Close, that means the next exit. Distance matters — a quick hop across Malvins Close makes a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Newcastle upon Tyne — so tell us about how far it went.
Malvins Close: what takes place when we arrive
Outside Malvin's Close Academy, close to Saint Benedicts Church or on your own driveway: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. Which fluid went in, the quantity, and if it ran: our engineers ask because those answers set both work and quote. You get that price by phone, before anyone sets off.
Next: a drain, then a full flush of the whole system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes out by itself. Hence it counts more. Filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; and then a check of the car. The engine is started next and checked to confirm it runs correctly, all before our engineers head off.
Unrun cars mostly mean a half-hour visit from the moment we arrive. The kit is fine on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Malvins Close and where it is
Malvins Close is a suburban area located near the coast in Northumberland, with an elevation of around 11 metres above sea level. Malvins Close sits within the wider urban area of Blyth, close to nearby places such as Cowpen and North Blyth. Malvins Close is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, typical of many suburban areas in the North East of England.
Malvins Close and Northumberland: AdBlue drains across the area
Throughout NE postcodes, the teams that cover Malvins Close — a residential suburb — work the nearby places too, North Blyth and Blyth among them. Give a postcode beginning NE24 5, and our van gets there fastest.
No need to move your car. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Blyth Family Church, a lay-by on the way to South Quay Park, a driveway. Tricky to explain, like the back of Wooden Sculpture? By a border? Asking beats guessing, so ring.
In short, for Malvins Close motorists
First, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Northumberland.