Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newington: Why It Happens
Stop reading a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Newington. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened.
Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car
Many modern diesels on the roads round Newington and Scaftworth carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas and cleans it.
Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, next to each other: that's the layout on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. At the pump, your diesel side gets filled all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in the diesel tank happen around Newington?
Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide.
On a drive off Bawtry Road before work, or in the car park outside The Ship Inn heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in.
Then, your hand goes for the cap it would have used on the old motor — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Nothing stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's seconds, whether in Austerfield or right in the heart of Newington.
Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler
Whether a Newington forecourt or a driveway over in Harwell, take a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually aren't.
- The size. On many motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of cars say there which fuel goes where.
- Can't see it next to the diesel filler? In that case check below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual will say which.
- The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Doncaster, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank
Anywhere across Nottinghamshire the light comes on, here is a routine for that day.
- Not in a rush on the side of Newington Road, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, yet it works.
- If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the vehicle on.
- Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Before you start the vehicle, close the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap was never came off.
If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Leave out stage five altogether.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, around Newington?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it.
Ask the attendants to help push the car away from the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Esso, the another forecourt nearby or somewhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own driveway around Newington.
Already started? Stop once it's sensible, then turn off. On the A1(M), under 5 miles from Newington, that means the next junction. A short hop across Newington is a smaller job than a run towards Doncaster, under 10 miles away, so tell us about how far it went.
What happens when we arrive around Newington
Wherever the car came to rest, whether by Bawtry Mayflower Primary School, beside St Helena or at home, our van comes to it. The replies decide this work and our quote, and so our engineers ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. No one sets off before you've had our price over the phone.
The system is then cleaned thoroughly, once the tank is cleared. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running properly.
If your motor has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. No money upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling.
About Newington and where it is
Newington is a small hamlet in Nottinghamshire, situated on the lakeside at a low elevation of around 7 metres. Newington lies near several other settlements, including Austerfield, Bawtry, and Misson, and is close to the city of Doncaster. Newington has a population of approximately 551 people, predominantly living in detached houses. Newington is located in the East Midlands region, about 138 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains about Newington, and Nottinghamshire beyond
Bawtry and Misson are among the towns around Newington, a rural hamlet, that the same teams cover, over DN postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting DN10 6.
No need to move your car. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Kings Wood, a side street near St Nicholas: our engineers drain the car where it stands. Tricky to pin down, like the back of Bawtry Community Library? By a county line? Asking beats assuming, and so phone.
In short, for Newington people
Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep it switched off and call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Nottinghamshire.