AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Old Fold: How It Occurs and How to Stop It
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the engine and the ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where the car sits in Old Fold, is normally all it takes when found before the motor runs. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it takes place and the ways to prevent it for good.
AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank
Many modern diesels in Friars Goose, like those in Old Fold, carry on two fluids; your motor takes just your diesel. Your exhaust, not the motor, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the fumes to fresh it, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Some vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more place the two side by side under one flap. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by someone working out where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake lives.
How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Old Fold
It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up.
On a driveway off Hepburn Gardens before work, or in the car park at The Mallard on the way home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you vehicles are second, too. Hire cars, new cars and company cars put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
Lastly, the bottle fits: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in as easily, and once the pour begins, nothing halts it. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Old Fold or out in Felling.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Be it a Old Fold forecourt or a driveway over in East Gateshead, spend a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position.
- Plenty of motors give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of vehicles say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at Heworth, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up
On the day the warning comes on — wherever you are across Tyne and Wear — a simple routine to use.
- Turn off once parked — flat ground, engine stopped, and never rushed beside Friary Gardens at the roadside.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It does the trick.
- If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave it on.
- Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty.
- Before starting the car, close the cap and look a second time that your diesel cap never opened off.
Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel filler? That's where you stop. Never go on to step five.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Old Fold already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. The fuel pump starts on many diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of your tank, just where fuel is taken from.
If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Jet or the JET, ask the staff to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. Your own driveway around Old Fold is where it stays.
If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Old Fold sits under 3 miles from the Central Motorway East; there, take the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 3 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Old Fold.
What takes place when we get there around Old Fold
Outside Brandling Primary School, near Our Lady and St Wilfrid's Catholic Church or on your own driveway: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Those answers determine this work and our quote, and so our technicians ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. During the phone call itself, you hear our price — before anything else.
After that: a drain, 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, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing is at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the fuel filter is flushed or replaced if necessary. After that our engineers start it and confirm it runs properly before we leave.
With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run take roughly half an hour after we arrive. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and both are yours at the end. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way.
About Old Fold and where it is
Old Fold is a suburban area located inland in Tyne and Wear, England, with an elevation of 33 metres above sea level. Old Fold sits approximately 2.1 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, in close proximity to nearby places such as Felling and Felling Shore. Old Fold is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock, which accommodates a population of around 5450 residents. Old Fold is situated in the North East region, about 245.6 miles north of London.
Old Fold and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
Over NE postcodes, the vans that cover Old Fold — a residential suburb — work the surrounding locations too, Mount Pleasant and Felling Shore among them. Fastest of all: quote a NE10 0 postcode to the van.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits — beside Christ Church Felling, on a layby en route to Bishops Park, on a drive — that is where it gets cleared. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Patrick's Catholic Church, Felling.
The short version for Old Fold motorists
Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it waits, anywhere in Tyne and Wear.