West Monkseaton: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It?
AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page down a moment, leave your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where the car sits in West Monkseaton, is normally what it needs when caught before your engine runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't.
Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler?
Diesel goes to the engine — yet plenty of modern diesels seen round West Monkseaton and Marden carry another liquid as well. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it is sent to your exhaust, and there a spray treats the fumes.
Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on many cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes usually tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. That gap is where the error lives.
AdBlue in the diesel tank around West Monkseaton: how it occurs
Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them.
On a drive off Dale Road before work, or in the car park at The Hunting Lodge heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and once it is gone, limp mode follows.
New-to-you motors are next, too. Rentals, new motors and company motors place their fillers in new places, and the hand reaches for the cap used on the old one.
And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. It takes seconds, whether in Monkseaton or right in the centre of West Monkseaton.
Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel?
Be it a West Monkseaton forecourt or a drive over in Whitley Bay, take a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in.
- Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't.
- On plenty of cars, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck.
- A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Look for it.
- Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? In that case look below the bonnet or inside the boot — the owner's manual says which.
- Whoever had it before will know. Ask as you pick up a rental or company car — from Seaton Delaval's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning appears.
Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank
For the day the warning comes on — anywhere you are in Tyne and Wear — a routine to follow.
- Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Seatonville Road.
- Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud as unscrewing it. It seems daft. It does the trick.
- Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle.
- Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it's full or the bottle runs out.
- Before starting your car, close the cap and check a second time that your diesel cap never came off.
If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five is out.
Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around West Monkseaton already?
Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On many diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so do not switch it on. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is sucked from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it.
On a forecourt — Sainsbury's, Morrisons or another — the staff will usually help roll your car away, when you ask. If you are on your own drive around West Monkseaton, leave the car where it sits.
If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the A167(M), under 10 miles from West Monkseaton, that means the next exit. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Newcastle upon Tyne, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across West Monkseaton.
West Monkseaton: what happens when our technicians turn up
We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Langley First School, close to Monkseaton Library or on your own drive. Both the work and our quote depend on three answers — which fluid, what amount, and whether it's run — so we ask. On the call itself, you are told the quote — ahead of anything else.
The fuel system is then rinsed thoroughly, once the tank is emptied. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. Once the fuel filter has been cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel is added, and finally the vehicle is tested. The engine is fired up next and tested to confirm it runs correctly, all before our technicians leave.
If the engine hasn't run, most jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. The insurer usually wants the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. It's worth checking your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies.
About West Monkseaton
West Monkseaton is a suburban area located on the coast of North East England, situated near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. West Monkseaton sits at an elevation of 45 metres, with views out to the North Sea, and is part of the larger urban area surrounding Newcastle. West Monkseaton has a mix of housing types, but semi-detached homes are particularly prevalent in the area. West Monkseaton is close to nearby places such as Monkseaton and Murton, and is about 6.9 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne.
West Monkseaton and Tyne and Wear: AdBlue drains across the area
Murton and Preston Grange are among the towns near West Monkseaton, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout NE postcodes. A postcode starting NE25 9 gets our van to you fastest.
Shifting the car isn't needed. Wherever it stands — beside St Andrews, on a lay-by heading to Crawford Park, on a drive — that's where it is cleared. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you're close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of St Peters.
In short, for West Monkseaton people
Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank after all? Leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout Tyne and Wear.