St Lawrence: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation
Has your engine run since the AdBlue was put in? That single question settles nearly everything else from here. Over in Friars Goose or here around St Lawrence, an unstarted motor must stay that way. Call 0333 366 0103 with the key and motor still off. Across St Lawrence, such a case is typically drained and flushed on the spot. Pull over the minute you safely can then turn off, if it has already run. A larger job, yes, yet the same first step.
Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever around Tyne and Wear it happened.
On a St Lawrence forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel
Only now, bottle still in your hand, you realise that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Anywhere around St Lawrence, then — JET, BP, or somewhere else close by.
In short: no better spot to be to spot it. The AdBlue is inside the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has sucked it in.
Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Phone us from the forecourt once your car sits in a space — the attendants will lend a hand to roll it — and keep the bottle. Can't move it beside the petrol pump? Explosion-proof equipment makes a busy forecourt sensible, so it can be drained where it is.
AdBlue in the diesel tank on a St Lawrence drive?
The warning light had been on for days. Only at the recycling bin, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened on the driveway. Driveways close to Saint Lawrence Road get it as much as anywhere.
The upshot: zero driving since leaves this almost equal to spotting it at the pump. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the base of the tank and remains there, no matter how long the night.
What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. St Peters or St Lawrence: wherever your drive sits, that's where it is drained. Night-time clears beside a house are no problem: the pumps are quiet.
AdBlue in a diesel and already driving in St Lawrence?
Rough running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. Brinkburn Street South, say, or the route towards Newcastle upon Tyne — a trip of under 3 miles.
Meaning? Your pump has sucked the AdBlue up. The injection pump and every injector get it as well on a longer run, after the fuel filter and pipework have it. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper.
What to do: pull over where it is safe then switch off. St Lawrence sits under 3 miles from the A167(M); on it, pull off at the next junction rather than pressing on for the services. Don't restart it to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Ring us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company motors
You have just had this car for days. The AdBlue filler sits right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Wherever you happen to be across Tyne and Wear, any motorist can be caught.
What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it has run, with one more step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Settling it before the van arrives is quicker, and so ring the hire company or your fleet manager, then us. If you're stuck in the car park at Manors, or by Mushroom Works, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off.
St Lawrence: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank?
Truthfully, the best answer might be that you think it did. What cap was taken off, you cannot say; meanwhile the bottle weighs less than expected, and a whiff of ammonia hangs by your filler. The gates of Byker Primary School in a rush, perhaps, or someone's driveway out in Felling Shore.
The point: your engine is not harmed by some AdBlue splashed on the filler. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Firing up the vehicle cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will draw it in.
What to do: treat it as if it got in. Do not start the vehicle. Checking a tank that turns out free of AdBlue beats emptying one after it has been run — so phone and tell us what you noticed.
St Lawrence: what each AdBlue drain has in common
The job opens identically, whichever the case. We come to the vehicle, whether it is at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park outside Full Circle Brew or a side street close to Fish with Two Heads, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether your engine has run. Replies shape the work; the quote comes by phone while no one has set off yet.
AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some metals used in fuel systems, so it won't rinse out on its own; that is why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Clean diesel goes in after the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced, and the car is finally checked. Not started? In that case about half an hour on site covers most jobs.
Starting the car comes at the end. With new diesel in, it runs while we check it's running correctly, and then we leave. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it is noticed quickly, and the entire job is done where the car is. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For your insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer. Check your insurance while we arrive: cover for misfuelling is included in plenty of policies.
About St Lawrence, for a moment
St Lawrence is a suburban area located on the riverside in Tyne and Wear, with a low elevation of around 7 metres. St Lawrence sits close to the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, approximately 1.3 miles away, and is near other areas such as St Peters and Byker. St Lawrence is predominantly composed of flat housing and has a population of around 3511 residents. St Lawrence forms part of the wider urban landscape of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the North East region of England.
AdBlue drains around St Lawrence, and across Tyne and Wear too
Being a residential suburb, St Lawrence shares its vans with the nearby towns — Byker, East Gateshead — all the way through NE postcodes. Telling us a NE6 1 postcode finds you fastest of all.
Central St Lawrence or a lay-by near St. Anthony's Park: wherever it is, the car doesn't need to shift at all for this drain. Wherever it stands, that's where it is cleared. Ring and check instead of guessing when you are close to Admirality Pattern Anchor, near a border, or anywhere awkward to explain.
Your situation, summed up
Not run yet: keep the vehicle off and call. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in St Lawrence and anywhere in Tyne and Wear on 0333 366 0103.