--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Appleby Magna? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/appleby-magna-leicestershire/ location: Appleby Magna county: Leicestershire latitude: 52.684900 longitude: -1.530890 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-22 --- # Appleby Magna: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Usually, when your engine has not turned, it is drained and thoroughly rinsed where your vehicle sits in Appleby Magna. The rest of this page explains why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Not one fluid but two: that's what plenty of newer diesels near Appleby Magna and Measham run, with diesel for the motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Every tank comes with a filler of its own. 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. The diesel side is fuelled at the petrol pump all the time. Far less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by someone thinking about where it goes. The error lives in that gap. ## How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place in Appleby Magna? Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once. The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out altogether, the vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Top Street before work, or in the car park outside The Black Horse on the way home. Then your car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand reaches for the cap it would have 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 pour once it has started. It takes seconds, be it out in Appleby Parva or right in the heart of Appleby Magna. ## The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart Check these before pouring, on a forecourt around Appleby Magna or a drive over in Norton Juxta Twycross. Seconds, no more. - Read the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue caps are often blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not. - Plenty of cars give AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - Check inside your fuel flap: many cars have a label there showing which fuel goes where. - Cannot see it next to your diesel filler? In that case look below the bonnet or in your boot — the owner's manual will say which. - The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Polesworth, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank Wherever in Leicestershire the light comes on, here is a routine for the day. - Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Mawby's Lane. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after finding the AdBlue filler and reading it. Daft, perhaps, yet it works. - The two behind a single flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap and check once more. Make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle. Stop there if you find, at stage two or three, that you have already poured into your diesel side. Leave out stage five altogether. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Appleby Magna? Then the order of things is short. Do not start the motor. Don't switch the ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where your fuel is sucked from. At a forecourt — Shell, Esso or another — the attendants will usually help roll the car away, if you ask. Your own driveway around Appleby Magna is the place it stays. Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then switch off. Come off the M42 — under a mile out of Appleby Magna — at the next junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Lichfield, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Appleby Magna. ## What happens when our technicians arrive around Appleby Magna Wherever the car has stopped, be it outside Sir John Moore Church of England Primary School, beside St Michaels and All Angels or on your own drive, our van comes to it. Which fluid was put in, the amount, and if it ran: our technicians ask because the replies decide both work and quote. That quote comes on the call, before any van leaves. The fuel system is then purged thoroughly, after that tank is emptied. Much more than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: crystals form, some metals corrode, and nothing clears away on its own, no matter how long it is left. After your filter has been flushed — or replaced, where required — clean diesel is added, and finally the vehicle gets tested. Your engine is started next and checked to make sure it runs smoothly, all before we go. Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our technicians arrive, provided your motor hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Appleby Magna and where it is Appleby Magna is a village situated on the riverside in Leicestershire, with a population of around 829 residents. Appleby Magna has a mix of old and new housing, but is predominantly characterised by detached homes. Appleby Magna sits at an elevation of 96 metres, near to the villages of Appleby Parva and Snarestone. Appleby Magna is located approximately 12 miles from Lichfield and 100 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Appleby Magna and across Leicestershire Stretton en le Field and Snarestone are among the towns near Appleby Magna, a village, that the same teams cover, over DE postcodes. Quickest of all: quote a DE12 7 postcode to the van. Shifting your car is not necessary. Wherever it stands — near Sir John Moore Museum, on a lay-by heading to The Rec, on a drive — that's where it gets emptied. Tricky to explain, like the back of St Bartholomew? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so ring. ## In short, for Appleby Magna drivers Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Keep the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Leicestershire.