Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Newton Aycliffe: Why It Occurs
AdBlue already in the diesel tank? In that case set this page down for now, leave the ignition and engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Normally, when your motor hasn't run, it is drained and fully cleaned where your vehicle is around Newton Aycliffe. The remainder of this page covers why it takes place and how to ensure it does not — useful if you're reading before it has happened.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler?
Plenty of modern diesels around Aycliffe Village, like those in Newton Aycliffe, run on two liquids; your motor gets only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust stream and cleans it.
Different tanks, different fillers. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for both, while some put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. The mistake lives in that gap.
How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Newton Aycliffe?
Seldom is it carelessness: usually three things coincide.
Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off St. Cuthbert's Way, or heading home in the car park at Blakes Sports & Lounge Bar.
The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — yet a hire car, a new motor or a company car keeps the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: a new car.
A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once started, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Newton Aycliffe or out in Woodham Village.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a Newton Aycliffe forecourt or a drive out in Middridge, spend a few seconds over these before any goes in.
- Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't.
- Plenty of vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it is when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask when you collect a hire car or fleet car — at the nearest station's car park, say — not when the light appears.
AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank
Wherever around Durham the light comes on, this is a routine for the day.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Stephenson Way.
- Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap works — after you've located your filler and read it.
- The two under one flap? So confirm the lid on your diesel side is still shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty.
- Close the cap, then check again — making sure the diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start the vehicle.
Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went in the wrong tank? That is where you stop. Do not go on to stage five.
Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Newton Aycliffe already?
Brief order, then. First: your engine stays unstarted. Leave your ignition off as well, because on many diesels it alone runs your pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is drawn from.
On a forecourt — Tesco, Esso or any other — the staff will usually help push your car clear, if you ask. If you're on your own driveway around Newton Aycliffe, leave the car where it sits.
Already run? Pull over when it's safe, then turn off. Newton Aycliffe lies under 3 miles from the A1(M); on it, use the first exit. A short hop across Newton Aycliffe is a smaller job than a run towards Durham, under 15 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went.
When our engineers arrive around Newton Aycliffe, what occurs?
The van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own driveway, near Newton Aycliffe War Memorial, or outside Sugar Hill Primary School. Both the work and our quote rest on three answers — which fluid, what amount, and if it has run — so our technicians ask. That price comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Then the tank is emptied and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears out by itself. That is why it counts more. Filter cleaned or, if needed, swapped; fresh diesel in; then a test of the car. Next our technicians fire it up and make sure it runs smoothly before leaving.
Unstarted vehicles mostly need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway late at night. No money in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and the report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Newton Aycliffe itself
Newton Aycliffe is a town situated on the banks of the River Tees, in the north east of England, with Woodham Village and School Aycliffe nearby. Newton Aycliffe has a mix of housing types, but predominantly features terraced homes, and is located about 11 miles from the city of Durham. Newton Aycliffe sits at an elevation of around 95 metres, and is approximately 223 miles north of London. Newton Aycliffe is a significant residential centre in the region, with a population of around 18559 people.
Newton Aycliffe and Durham: AdBlue drains across the area
Woodham and School Aycliffe are among the places around Newton Aycliffe, a riverside town, that the same teams cover, throughout DL postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning DL5 4, and the van arrives fastest.
Shifting your car is not necessary. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Thames Centre, a lay-by on the way to Simpasture Park, a driveway. If you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of St Clare, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Newton Aycliffe drivers
Always, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Durham.