--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Bakers Hill? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/bakers-hill-gloucestershire/ location: Bakers Hill county: Gloucestershire latitude: 51.799570 longitude: -2.606260 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-24 --- # How It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bakers Hill Pause reading for a moment when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, carried out just where the vehicle stands around Bakers Hill, is normally all it takes if found before your motor runs. Here before the event? In that case the rest explains why it happens and how to stop it ever happening. ## AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank Many current diesels on the roads round Bakers Hill and Five Acres carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. The exhaust, not your motor, is where AdBlue ends up: sprayed into the gas to clean them, from a separate tank. There is a filler for every tank. Many of cars have a single flap for both, whereas others put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in at every forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Seldom topped up, AdBlue normally goes in out of a bottle, poured by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. That gap is where the mistake lives. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank around Bakers Hill: how it takes place Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up at once. On a driveway off Bakers Road before work, or in the car park at Gamekeepers Inn heading home: that is where the hurried top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in. The old car's filler is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That's a second thing: a new motor. A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, after started, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Bakers Hill or out in Poolway. ## The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you tip anything, on a drive in Coleford or a forecourt in Bakers Hill. - Check the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are frequently blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally aren't. - Many cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors mark which belongs in which inlet just there. - Cannot see it beside your diesel inlet? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say where. - The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Lydney, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up When the light goes on, anywhere across Gloucestershire, follow this routine. - Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time to spare — never hurried on the side of Mile End Road. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, yes, but it works. - If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave the car on. - Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty. - Shut the cap, then look again — making sure your diesel filler stayed shut the whole time. After that, start the vehicle. Find during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Skip stage five altogether. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank already, around Bakers Hill? Don't start your motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from. On a forecourt — Texaco, Central Garage or another — the attendants will normally help push the vehicle away, if you ask. Your own drive in Bakers Hill is the place it should stay. If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. On the M50, under 10 miles from Bakers Hill, that means the next exit. About how far did it go? Hopping across Bakers Hill is smaller work than a trip of under 25 miles towards Gloucester, so tell us. ## Our arrival in Bakers Hill, and what takes place next Anywhere the vehicle came to rest, be it by Coalway Primary School, beside Broadwell Memorial or at home, the van travels to it. What liquid went in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because those answers set the work and price. No one heads out before you've heard the price by phone. Draining your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the system. More than with petrol, it counts here: crystals build up, some metals corrode, and none of it washes away on its own, however long it is left. Once the fuel filter is cleaned — or renewed, if required — clean diesel is added, and finally the car gets tested. We do not leave until it has been started and is running properly. Most jobs are done in about half an hour after our technicians arrive, provided the engine hasn't run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Nothing in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; plenty carry cover for misfuelling. ## About Bakers Hill, briefly Bakers Hill is a suburban area in Gloucestershire, situated inland at an elevation of 209 metres. Bakers Hill lies near several nearby places, including Poolway, Broadwell, and Mile End, and is approximately 16 miles from Gloucester. Bakers Hill is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, which reflects the area's residential nature. Bakers Hill is also relatively far from London, at a distance of around 108 miles. ## AdBlue drains round Bakers Hill, and Gloucestershire beyond Bakers Hill is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Broadwell and Mile End among them, across the GL postcode area. Fastest of all: give a GL16 7 postcode for the van. Your car doesn't need to move. A driveway, a lay-by on the way to Forest Hills Golf Club, a side street near Mount of Olives: we drain the car where it is. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of The Church of the Good Shepherd. ## Bakers Hill people: the short version Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can drain it wherever it is, wherever across Gloucestershire: switch the vehicle off then call 0333 366 0103.