Spital Tongues: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
All of that turns on one fact: if the motor has been run since the AdBlue was added — more than anything else. Not started so far? Then keep the car that way, whether the car is — Spital Tongues or Brandling Village. Normally this means draining and thoroughly rinsing it right there in Spital Tongues — so keep the key and engine off and call 0333 366 0103. Where the engine has run, stop somewhere safe straight away, then switch the vehicle off. Stage one stays the same, even though the work is bigger.
Anywhere in Tyne and Wear it happened, one of the situations below fits yours.
On a Spital Tongues forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Picture it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you spot the cap you opened was not the right one. Perhaps you're at the Esso, perhaps at the Gulf, perhaps somewhere else around Spital Tongues.
What it means: this is the best spot to find out. Just your tank holds AdBlue; no part beyond it has drawn it in.
What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Three things: a push into a space with the staff helping, the bottle saved, and a ring to us from where you stand. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a busy forecourt, and so a car that can't be pushed clear gets drained right at the pump.
Spital Tongues, at home: AdBlue in your diesel tank
Days had passed with the warning light on. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd opened at the driveway. Driveways close to Fountain Row get it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: zero driving since makes it almost as good to finding it at the petrol pump. On the bottom of the tank is exactly where AdBlue stays, because it will not blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference.
Put the keys indoors tonight — or someone might drive it away at breakfast — and call us. Arthurs Hill or Spital Tongues: wherever your drive sits, that is where it is drained. The pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night.
Spital Tongues: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel?
Topped up, drove away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, smoking, losing power, or lighting up the dash. It might have been driving for Newcastle upon Tyne, under 3 miles away, or simply along Hunter's Moor Close.
In short: the AdBlue has been pulled through your fuel system. The injection pump and each injector get it too on a longer run, once your filter and lines have it. It goes further with every mile covered and each restart.
What to do: pull over where it's safe to do so and switch off. Leave by the next junction — not the services further along — if you're on the Central Motorway East, under a mile from Spital Tongues. No test starts: clearing is not something AdBlue does. Call, saying how far your vehicle was driven.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
You have had the vehicle hardly a week. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel one, which you did not know, because your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are across Tyne and Wear, any driver can be caught.
Meaning? Whatever case above applies too — run or not — plus one further step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on your car.
Next: ring the rental company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before our arrival is quicker. Keep the vehicle off as the answer comes, even if you are waiting at Newcastle or close to Nuns Moor Centre.
Spital Tongues: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think so. A slight ammonia whiff hangs near the filler, the bottle feels too light, and the cap you took off is a blur. The gates of Moorside Primary School in a hurry, say, or a friend's drive over in Fenham.
What it means: a little spilled round the filler does no harm to the engine. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is a different matter. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will draw in any AdBlue that is in your tank.
Your move: act as if it did, and don't start your motor. Ring and give the details: we'd sooner confirm a clean tank than drain one after your engine has been run.
What each AdBlue drain in Spital Tongues has in common
Whichever scenario you are in, the job starts the same way. Filling station, drive, Cosy Dove's car park or a road by Saint Luke's Church — our van reaches your vehicle, and three answers follow: which fluid, which quantity, and if it has run. Answers set the work; the price comes on the call whilst nobody has left yet.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at certain metals in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why the flush, after the drain, counts much more with AdBlue than with petrol. Then is your filter — flushed, or swapped when needed — then fresh diesel, and a test of the car. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there.
The final step is firing it up. With clean diesel in, it runs while we check it is running smoothly, and then we go. We do the entire job where your car is, and long-term damage is very rare if it has been spotted quickly. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Spital Tongues and where it is
Spital Tongues is a suburban area located near the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, sitting at an elevation of 83 metres in the inland setting of Tyne and Wear. Spital Tongues is characterized by its predominantly flat-type housing and is situated close to nearby places such as Arthurs Hill and Newcastle Helix. Spital Tongues has a population of approximately 5889 residents, making it a relatively small but densely populated community. Spital Tongues is also conveniently located just 1 mile from Newcastle upon Tyne city centre.
AdBlue drains around Spital Tongues, and across Tyne and Wear too
Newcastle Helix and Newcastle upon Tyne have the same vans as Spital Tongues, a residential suburb, plus further towns over NE postcodes. Quickest of all: a NE2 4 postcode to show where you stand.
Central Spital Tongues or a layby towards Hunters Moor: either way it is, your vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for us. Where it stands, that is where it is drained. Ring and check instead of guessing when you're by Leazes Park Relief Map, on a boundary, or anywhere tricky to pin down.
Your situation, summed up
Still unrun? Leave the car off and ring. Started by now? Stop, switch off, ring. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever case, in Spital Tongues and Tyne and Wear, on 0333 366 0103.