AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newcastle upon Tyne: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Leave your engine and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Caught before your motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Newcastle upon Tyne. Nothing happened yet? Further down, the rest of the page explains the why it occurs and the how to prevent it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler?
Plenty of newer diesels in Newcastle Helix, like those in Newcastle upon Tyne, run on two liquids; the motor takes only your diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Separate tanks, different fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel gets filled on each filling station visit, again and again. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Newcastle upon Tyne: how it occurs
Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things coming up together.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from the car, and running out means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, perhaps before work off Saint Mary's Place, perhaps at The Five Swans on the way home that evening.
Unfamiliar motors come next, too. Rentals, new motors and company vehicles place their fillers differently, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one.
No part halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes seconds, whether in Shieldfield or right in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Telling the AdBlue filler from your diesel filler
Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Jesmond or a forecourt in Newcastle upon Tyne, check these. They take a few seconds.
- Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually don't.
- Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In the boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Manors.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
Anywhere in Tyne and Wear the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine off, and never rushed beside College Street at the roadside.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened.
Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop right there. Stage five is off limits.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Newcastle upon Tyne?
Short list, then. Top of that: the motor stays unstarted. The fuel pump runs on many diesels as soon as the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel won't dilute it: instead, AdBlue drops to the base of your tank, right where fuel is taken from.
Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the Gulf, the Esso or somewhere else. Your own drive in Newcastle upon Tyne is where it should stay.
Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit is where to leave if you're on the A167(M), under a mile from Newcastle upon Tyne. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Newcastle upon Tyne is less work than a run of under 15 miles to Sunderland, and so say.
What occurs when we get there around Newcastle upon Tyne
We come to the car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Christ Church CofE Primary School, close to O2 City Hall or on your own drive. Our engineers ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, since the replies settle this work and the price. No one heads out before you have had the price by phone.
Then the tank is drained and the system flushed thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of that washes away by itself. Hence it matters more. A test is at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or changed as needed. Next we fire it up and make sure it runs properly before leaving.
If your engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. It is worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Newcastle upon Tyne, for a moment
Newcastle upon Tyne is a major city situated in the north of England, positioned on the River Tyne. It forms part of the Tyneside conurbation and is a significant urban centre in the region. The city is located inland, with the river flowing through it, and is situated opposite Gateshead. Newcastle upon Tyne is known for being a key population hub in North East England.
AdBlue drains in Newcastle upon Tyne and across Tyne and Wear
Brandling Village and Battle Field are among the towns near Newcastle upon Tyne, a cathedral city, that the same teams cover, throughout NE postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a NE1 7 postcode to the van.
No need to move the vehicle. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to City Baths, a lay-by on the way to St Thomas' Green, a drive. Tricky to pin down, like the back of St James’s United Reformed Church? Close to a border? Checking is better than assuming, so ring.
Newcastle upon Tyne motorists: the short version
Pour nothing till you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the vehicle off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Tyne and Wear.