AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Normanby: Why It Occurs and How to Stop It
Leave the engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 now — the rest can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Usually, when the motor hasn't run, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where your car is around Normanby. The rest of this page covers why it happens and how to make sure it does not — useful if you're reading ahead of time.
AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of current diesels on the roads about Normanby and Ormesby carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for both, while others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less frequently, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the slip happens.
AdBlue in your diesel tank around Normanby: how it takes place
Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up.
On a driveway off Smith's Dock Park Road before work, or in the car park outside The Tiger Inn heading home: that's where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low the car warns you, and if it is empty, limp mode follows.
Then, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — since a rental car, a new motor or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one didn't.
Lastly, the bottle goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and after the tip begins, no part stops it. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Teesville or bang in the centre of Normanby.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a drive in California or a forecourt around Normanby.
- Where it sits misleads; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel caps normally do not.
- The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two.
- Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of motors carry a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook shows which it lives if the filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet.
- Whoever had it before knows. Check as you pick up a rental or fleet car — from Marton's car park, say — not once the warning comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light appears — wherever you are in North Yorkshire — a simple routine to follow.
- Not in a rush on the side of Tristram Close, not on a slope, not with your motor running: park then switch off properly.
- Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the name "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works.
- Both behind one flap? Then make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays shut ahead of lifting the bottle.
- Finish when the tank is topped up or the bottle is empty; until then, pour gently through its built-in spout.
- Before you start your car, shut the cap and look again that your diesel cap was never opened off.
Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Step five stays out.
Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Normanby?
Brief order, then. Top of it: the engine stays off. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so leave it off. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base rather than blending — and that is where the fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Shell, BP or any other — the attendants will usually help push the vehicle clear, when you ask. Your own drive in Normanby is the place it should stay.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Normanby sits under 25 miles from the A1(M); there, take the first junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Durham, under 25 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Normanby.
When we get there around Normanby, what occurs?
Our van comes to the car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside Smith's Dock Company War Memorial, or by Teesville Academy. Our engineers ask what was put in, about how much, and if it's run, since the replies settle the work and our price. Nobody sets off before you've heard the quote by phone.
Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. After the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where needed — fresh diesel goes in, and finally the vehicle is tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians leave.
Using pumps safe on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine has not run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Paying happens on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. Misfuelling cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours.
About Normanby, briefly
Normanby is a suburban area in North Yorkshire, situated on the banks of the River Tees at an elevation of 34 metres. Normanby is located near the towns of Teesville, Eston, and Thorntree, and is approximately 22.8 miles from the city of Durham. Normanby has a population of around 4777 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Normanby is also relatively distant from London, at a distance of 214.9 miles.
Normanby and North Yorkshire: AdBlue drains across the area
Eston and Thorntree are among the towns around Normanby, a residential suburb, that the same teams cover, over TS postcodes. Give a postcode that starts TS6 0, and the van gets there fastest.
The car remains put. We drain it where it is — a side street close to Normanby Hall, a lay-by on the way to Smith's Dock Park, a driveway. Guessing won't help at the back of Normanby Methodist Church, on a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; ring and check.
In short, for Normanby drivers
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere across North Yorkshire.