--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Alcester Lanes End canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/alcester-lanes-end-west-midlands/ location: Alcester Lanes End county: West Midlands latitude: 52.423670 longitude: -1.892970 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-22 --- # How It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Alcester Lanes End Keep your motor and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Around Alcester Lanes End, catching it before the motor runs normally means draining and a full flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Not one fluid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Alcester Lanes End and Stirchley run, with diesel feeding the engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas to clean it. There's a filler for each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in from a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think which filler to use. It's in the gap that the slip happens. ## How AdBlue in the diesel tank happens in Alcester Lanes End It's hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up. On a drive off Fernwood Croft before work, or in the car park at The Pavilion heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows. The old car's cap is where your hand goes — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a strange vehicle. Nothing halts the tip after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Kings Heath or the middle of Alcester Lanes End: it is the same few seconds in both. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler Be it a Alcester Lanes End forecourt or a driveway out in Moor Green, spend a couple of seconds on these before anything is poured in. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position. - On many cars, size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck. - Check inside the fuel flap: plenty of cars have a label there saying which fuel goes where. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Kings Heath. ## Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up On the day the warning comes on — wherever it is around West Midlands — a routine to follow. - Pull in on level, engine off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Livingstone Road. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick. - Both under one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays closed before lifting the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Before starting the vehicle, close the cap and check again that the diesel cap was never came off. Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? So stop just there. Don't go on to step five. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Alcester Lanes End? Short order, then. Top of it: your engine stays unstarted. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that's where your fuel is pulled from. If you're on a forecourt, whether it is the Shell or the Gulf, ask the staff to help push your car away from the petrol pump. If you are on your own driveway in Alcester Lanes End, leave it where it sits. Where the engine has run by now, pull over somewhere safe then turn the car off. Leave the Aston Expressway — under 5 miles out of Alcester Lanes End — at the next exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Alcester Lanes End is a smaller job than driving under 5 miles to Birmingham — so say roughly how far it went. ## Our arrival in Alcester Lanes End, and what takes place next We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Woodthorpe Junior and Infant School, near Birmingham South Christadelphian Meeting Room or on your own drive. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it has run, since those replies decide the work and our price. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of anything else. Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of your system. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and none of that clears out unaided. Hence it counts more. A test comes last: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. The motor is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians go. If the engine has not run, most jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours while we're on the way. ## About Alcester Lanes End and where it is Alcester Lanes End is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Rea and close to the city of Birmingham. Alcester Lanes End has a mix of semi-detached housing and is located near other residential areas such as Kings Heath and Billesley Common. Alcester Lanes End sits at an elevation of 157 metres, with the nearby city of Birmingham being a major urban centre. Alcester Lanes End is approximately 98 miles northwest of London, making it a commuter hub for those working in the capital. ## AdBlue drains across West Midlands, Alcester Lanes End included Alcester Lanes End is a residential suburb, and the vans that cover it also work the towns around it, Billesley Common and Brandwood End among them, across the B postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting B14 6. The car remains put. The drain takes place right there, whether a driveway, a road near Green Oak Academy (Kings Heath), or a lay-by on the way to Kings Heath Cricket Club. Assuming won't help behind Wing Wheel (Kings Heath Interchange), on a border, or somewhere hard to pin down; phone and ask. ## Alcester Lanes End motorists: the short version Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the car switched off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, throughout West Midlands.