Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newbiggin Hall Estate: Why It Happens
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then put this page aside for now, leave the ignition and motor off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Newbiggin Hall Estate. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Diesel goes to your motor — yet many current diesels driven round Newbiggin Hall Estate and Blakelaw hold another fluid too. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where spraying cleans the fumes.
Each tank has one filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in the gap between them.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Newbiggin Hall Estate: how it happens
Carelessness rarely explains it. What does is three things coming up together.
Hurry comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a driveway off St Marks Court, or heading home in the car park outside The Hillheads.
Then the car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the bottle fits: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and after the tip begins, nothing stops it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Newbiggin Hall Estate or out in Westerhope.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Whether a Newbiggin Hall Estate forecourt or a driveway over in Kenton Bar, spend a few seconds on these before anything goes in.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Many motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which.
- The previous driver knows. Check as you collect a hire car or company car — from Blaydon's car park, perhaps — not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
On the day the light appears — anywhere you are around Tyne and Wear — a routine to follow.
- Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Bedeburn Road.
- Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew the cap works — after you have located your filler and read the cap.
- If both sit under one flap, check your 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 is full or the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? So stop right there. Never go on to step five.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Newbiggin Hall Estate?
The short order of things, beginning with no starting your engine. Keep your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone starts your fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue sinks to the base instead of mixing — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
Ask the staff to help roll your car away from the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Esso, the Shell or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Newbiggin Hall Estate.
If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the Central Motorway East, under 5 miles from Newbiggin Hall Estate, that means the next junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Newbiggin Hall Estate is less work than a trip of under 5 miles to Newcastle upon Tyne, so say.
Our arrival around Newbiggin Hall Estate, and what occurs next
Our engineers come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside St Mark's Catholic Primary School, Westerhope, close to St Mark's RC Church or on your own drive. Those answers settle the work and the quote, and so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run. You hear that price by phone, before anybody sets off.
Then that tank is emptied and your system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. After your filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. Before we go, we fire it up and make sure that it is running correctly.
With pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine hasn't run need roughly half an hour after our technicians are there. 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 while we are on the way.
About Newbiggin Hall Estate and where it is
Newbiggin Hall Estate is a suburban area located inland in Tyne and Wear, approximately 3.7 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Newbiggin Hall Estate sits at an elevation of 116 metres, surrounded by nearby places such as Westerhope, West Denton, and Kenton Bank Foot. Newbiggin Hall Estate is characterised by its predominance of terraced housing, which is typical of many suburban areas in the North East of England.
Newbiggin Hall Estate and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
West Denton and Kenton Bank Foot are among the towns around Newbiggin Hall Estate, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over NE postcodes. Quickest of all: give a NE5 4 postcode to our van.
Your car stays put. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a driveway, a street near Westerhope Methodist Church, or a lay-by on the way to Westerhope Golf Club. Guessing won't help behind St Wilfrid, on a border, or anywhere awkward to pin down; phone and ask.
The short version for Newbiggin Hall Estate drivers
Tip no AdBlue till you've read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Tyne and Wear.