Seaton Carew: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and the ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before your motor runs, it is generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is around Seaton Carew. Not happened yet? Further down, the page covers the why it occurs and the ways to avoid it for good.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to your engine — yet plenty of current diesels driven around Seaton Carew and Stranton hold another fluid as well. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own.
Different tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. That gap is where the slip lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around Seaton Carew: how it occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Farndale Road before work, or in the car park outside The 9 Anchors heading home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it's gone, limp mode kicks in.
New-to-you cars come second, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company cars put their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
No part halts the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It takes a few seconds, whether in Longhill or bang in the heart of Seaton Carew.
How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one
Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Graythorp or a forecourt around Seaton Carew, check these. They take a couple of seconds.
- Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel caps usually don't.
- Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one.
- Look inside the fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there showing which fuel goes where.
- The handbook says which it lives when your filler isn't next to your diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet.
- The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park at the nearest station, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank
On the day the light comes on — wherever it is around Durham — a simple routine to follow.
- Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Carlisle Street.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" aloud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works.
- Both behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle.
- Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out.
- Before you start your car, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never came off.
Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into the diesel side. Step five stays out.
AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Seaton Carew?
Brief list, then. First: the motor remains off. The fuel pump starts on many diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where fuel is drawn from.
At a forecourt — Morrisons, M&G solid fuels or any other — the staff will usually help roll the vehicle away, when you ask. If you are on your own drive in Seaton Carew, leave the car where it sits.
Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if the engine has already run. The next exit is where to come off when you're on the A1(M), under 15 miles from Seaton Carew. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Seaton Carew is less a job than a trip of under 25 miles to Durham, and so say.
What occurs when our technicians get there around Seaton Carew
Our van comes to the vehicle anywhere it stopped — your own drive, near Seaton Carew Methodist Church, or by Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School. We ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, since the answers decide this work and the quote. You get that price on the phone, before anybody sets off.
Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Testing is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and the filter is flushed or changed as needed. We do not go until it has been fired up and is running smoothly.
Unstarted cars usually need a half-hour job after arrival. The kit is fine on a busy filling station, and hushed enough for a driveway late at night. Your insurer usually wants the engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once the job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Before we get there, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling.
About Seaton Carew
Seaton Carew is a coastal suburban area in County Durham, situated on the North Sea coast at a low elevation of around 7 metres. Seaton Carew lies near the mouth of the Tees estuary, approximately 17 miles from the city of Durham, and is surrounded by other local areas such as Longhill and Foggy Furze. Seaton Carew has a population of around 4568 people, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Seaton Carew is located 222 miles north of London, in the North East region of England.
AdBlue drains around Seaton Carew and across Durham
Foggy Furze and Bellevue are among the towns around Seaton Carew, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over TS postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a TS25 1 postcode to our van.
The vehicle doesn't need to shift. Wherever it sits — beside Seaton Carew Community Hub, on a layby en route to Seaton Carew Park, at home — that is where it is emptied. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Holy Trinity Church, ring and ask instead of assuming.
The short version for Seaton Carew people
First, the cap; after that, the pour. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the vehicle switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Durham.