Station Town: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, leave your ignition and engine off, then phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your motor hasn't turned, it is emptied and fully flushed where the vehicle is around Station Town. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't.
AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers
Plenty of current diesels on the roads round Station Town and Castle Eden carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. Your exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the fumes to clean them, from its own tank.
Each tank has its own filler. Other motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have both together behind one flap. Filling the diesel side at the pump happens all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less often, usually from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The slip lives in that gap.
AdBlue in your diesel tank in Station Town: how it takes place
Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them.
To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and running out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Front Street, or at Railway Crossings on the way home after work.
Then your car is unfamiliar. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one.
Third, the spout fits: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as easily, and after the pour starts, no part halts it. It's seconds, whether out in Wingate or bang in the heart of Station Town.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Eden Vale or a forecourt around Station Town.
- The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits.
- Plenty of vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller neck of the two.
- The flap. Look inside your fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where.
- In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook says which.
- Collecting a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park outside Horden? Check with whoever drove the car last before leaving, rather than once the light goes on.
Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up
For the day the light comes on — wherever you are across Durham — a routine to use.
- Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Church Street.
- Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, yet it works.
- Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using its built-in spout.
- Close the cap and check again. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the car.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to step five.
Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Station Town?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as the ignition is switched on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel will not weaken it: instead, AdBlue drops to the bottom of that tank, right where the fuel is drawn from.
The attendants at JET, Shell or any forecourt will usually lend a hand to push your car clear if asked. At home in Station Town? Then your car stays where it is.
Already run? Pull over when it is sensible, then turn off. Station Town lies under 10 miles from the A1(M); there, use the first exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Station Town is less a job than a trip of under 10 miles to Durham, and so say.
Our arrival in Station Town, and what happens next
Anywhere your car has stopped, be it outside Wingate Primary School, beside Milbank Methodist Church or at home, our van comes to it. Our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run, since those answers decide the work and our price. That quote comes on the call, before any van leaves.
Draining the tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away by itself. Hence it matters more. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Before we go, our technicians start the engine and confirm that it is running correctly.
Unrun vehicles mostly mean a half-hour job from arrival. The equipment is safe on a busy forecourt, and quiet enough for a driveway after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It is worth looking at your insurance as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies.
About Station Town and where it is
Station Town is a small village in County Durham, situated inland at an elevation of 126 metres, approximately 9 miles from the city of Durham. Station Town has a population of around 1245 people, predominantly living in terraced housing. Station Town is close to nearby places such as Wingate, Hutton Henry, and South Wingate, and is located about 227 miles north of London.
AdBlue drains in Station Town and across Durham
Hutton Henry and South Wingate are among the places near Station Town, a rural village, that the same vans cover, over TS postcodes. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting TS28 5.
The car doesn't need to shift. Anywhere it sits — near Holy Trinity, on a lay-by heading to The Commons, Hutton Henry, at home — that is where it is drained. Tricky to explain, like the back of St Francis Village Hall? Close to a border? Asking is better than guessing, and so ring.
In short, for Station Town people
Tip nothing till you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the car switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Durham.