How It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newcastle Great Park
Keep the motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before the engine runs, it is usually a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Newcastle Great Park. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to make sure it does not — useful if you are reading ahead of time.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Many newer diesels in Brunton Park, as well as Newcastle Great Park, run on two liquids; your engine gets only your diesel. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust stream and cleans it.
There is a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. Mistakes happen in the gap between the two.
Newcastle Great Park: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Rosebrough Road before work, or in the car park outside The Windsor on the way home.
Next, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not.
A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, after started, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Newcastle Great Park or out in Kingston Park.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Be it a Newcastle Great Park forecourt or a drive out in Kenton, spend a few seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not.
- On many vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside the fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it.
- The handbook shows where it is if your filler is not next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Manors.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Tyne and Wear that is.
- Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor stopped, and not rushed by Shoreswood Way on the verge.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it works.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap was never came off.
Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is off limits.
Newcastle Great Park: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Short list, then. Top of that: your motor remains off. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — so leave it off. Thinning it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that is where your fuel is drawn from.
If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Shell, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle clear of the petrol pump. If you're on your own drive in Newcastle Great Park, leave the vehicle where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your motor has already run. On the A167(M), under 5 miles from Newcastle Great Park, that means the next junction. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Newcastle Great Park is a smaller job than driving under 5 miles towards Newcastle upon Tyne — so say about how far it went.
When our technicians turn up around Newcastle Great Park, what takes place?
Our van reaches the vehicle wherever it stopped — your own driveway, beside Kingston Park, or outside North Fawdon Primary School. Both the work and the price depend on three answers — what liquid, what amount, and if it's run — so our engineers ask. That price comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving.
After that: draining, then a full flush of the entire system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and finally your vehicle gets tested. We don't go until it has been started and is running smoothly.
Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our technicians get there, as long as the engine hasn't run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Newcastle Great Park, for a moment
Newcastle Great Park is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Newcastle upon Tyne, situated near the River Tyne in north-eastern England. Newcastle Great Park sits at an elevation of 53 metres, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Newcastle Great Park is close to nearby places such as Kingston Park, Fawdon, and Kenton Bank Foot, and is approximately 3.6 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle Great Park has a population of around 4025 residents.
AdBlue drains about Newcastle Great Park, and Tyne and Wear beyond
Fawdon and Kenton Bank Foot are among the towns near Newcastle Great Park, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over NE postcodes. Give a postcode that starts NE13 9, and our van gets there fastest.
The car stays put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to City of Newcastle Golf Club, a side street close to Kingston Park Community Centre: our technicians drain it where it stands. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Fawdon Mormon Church? Close to a county line? Checking beats assuming, and so ring.
In short, for Newcastle Great Park drivers
Always, the cap; then, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it sits, anywhere across Tyne and Wear.