AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Mayfield Glade: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle stands around Mayfield Glade, is normally all it takes if found before your motor runs. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the how to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels around Hall Close Grange, as well as Mayfield Glade, carry on two liquids; your engine takes only the diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
There is a filler on every tank. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both together behind one flap. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Much less often, the AdBlue side gets filled — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Mayfield Glade: how it takes place
Carelessness rarely explains it. Instead is three things lining up together.
First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run dry leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, maybe before work off Cornhill Road, or at The Plough on the way home that evening.
New-to-you cars come second, too. Hire cars, new motors and company cars put their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap used on the old one.
No part stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Mayfield Glade or out in Mayfield Dale.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Mayfield Glade forecourt or a driveway over in Cramlington Village, take a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't.
- Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler isn't by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- Check with 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 Cramlington.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
For the day the light comes on — anywhere you are across Northumberland — a simple routine to follow.
- Turn off once parked — level ground, motor off, and never rushed by Thornley Avenue on the verge.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems silly. 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.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never opened off.
Find at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Never go on to stage five.
AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Mayfield Glade?
Don't start your engine: that is how the short order of things begins. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so leave it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it.
On a forecourt — Sainsbury's, Co-op Food or another — the staff will usually help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway in Mayfield Glade.
Already started? Pull over when it's sensible, then switch off. On the A167(M), under 10 miles from Mayfield Glade, that means the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Mayfield Glade.
Mayfield Glade: what occurs when our engineers get there
Our engineers come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Cramlington Shanklea Primary School, close to Cemetery Chapel or on your own driveway. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, since the replies decide this work and the price. You get that price by phone, before anybody sets off.
Next: a drain, then a thorough flush of the whole system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Once your filter has been flushed — or renewed, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally your vehicle is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly.
Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour job after the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to look at yours.
About Mayfield Glade, briefly
Mayfield Glade is a suburban area located inland in Northumberland, approximately 7.5 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Mayfield Glade sits at an elevation of 71 metres, surrounded by other residential areas such as Mayfield Dale and Hall Close Green. Mayfield Glade is characterised by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, typical of many suburban areas in the North East of England. Mayfield Glade is situated relatively close to the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, while still being some 254 miles from London.
AdBlue drains across Northumberland, Mayfield Glade included
Mayfield Glade is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Hall Close Green and Eastfield Chase among them, across the NE postcode area. A postcode starting NE23 6 gets the van to you fastest.
The vehicle does not need to shift. Wherever it stands — near Cramlington Village Community Centre, on a layby en route to Seven Oaks Park, on a drive — that's where it gets emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of St. Nicholas' Church? Close to a border? Asking is better than assuming, and so ring.
For Mayfield Glade drivers, the short version
Read the cap before you pour. Still AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it where it stands, anywhere across Northumberland: keep the car off then ring 0333 366 0103.