--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Bitterscote? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/bitterscote-staffordshire/ location: Bitterscote county: Staffordshire latitude: 52.628870 longitude: -1.698570 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-19 --- # How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Bitterscote If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a full flush, done just where your vehicle stands around Bitterscote, is usually all it needs if found before your engine runs. The remainder of this page explains why it takes place and how to ensure it doesn't — handy if you are reading ahead of time. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of current diesels driven around Bitterscote and Gillway carry another liquid too. Stored in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust gas and cleans it. Each tank has its own filler. Many of vehicles have a single flap for both, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling your diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less often. The slip lives in that gap. ## How does AdBlue in the diesel tank take place in Bitterscote? Carelessness seldom causes it. Instead is three things lining up at once. Haste comes from the warning. The vehicle warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a driveway off Fazeley Road, or on the way home in the car park outside The Old Bank House. The old car's cap is where the hand goes — yet a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is the second thing: a strange motor. Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in as readily, and after the pour begins, nothing halts it. Whether it takes place in Tamworth or the middle of Bitterscote, it's the same few seconds. ## Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel? Check these before pouring, at a forecourt in Bitterscote or a driveway over in Bolehall. Seconds, that's all. - Check the cap instead of going by position: AdBlue ones are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally are not. - On plenty of cars, the size gives it away: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck. - Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of motors have a label there saying which fuel goes where. - The handbook. If the filler is not by your diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which. - The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Tamworth, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up When the light comes on, wherever in Staffordshire, use this routine. - Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of Bonehill Road. - Find the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft. It works. - The two under one flap? So make sure the lid on your diesel filler is still shut ahead of raising the bottle. - Using the bottle's own spout, pour slowly — and stop when it's full or the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, then check once more — confirm your diesel cap remained closed throughout. Only then, start your car. Discover during the second or third stage that the bottle went in the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Never go on to stage five. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Bitterscote? What follows is a short order of things, starting with not starting the engine. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so leave it off. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it. If you're at a forecourt, whether it's the Sainsbury's or the Asda, ask the staff to help roll your car clear of the pump. If you are on your own drive in Bitterscote, leave the vehicle where it stands. Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if the motor has already run. Come off the M42 — under 3 miles out of Bitterscote — at the first junction. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Bitterscote is smaller a job than a run of under 10 miles to Lichfield, so tell us. ## Our arrival around Bitterscote, and what happens next Wherever the car has stopped, be it by Moorgate Primary Academy, near Uranus or at home, our van comes to it. Those replies decide the work and our quote, so we ask what went in, about how much, and whether it has run. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — before anything else. Then the tank is emptied and your system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own. After the fuel filter has been flushed — or renewed, where required — fresh diesel goes in, and then your car is tested. The engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs smoothly, all before our technicians head off. Using pumps safe on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the motor hasn't run need roughly half an hour after we are there. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for your insurer. Before we get there, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling. ## About Bitterscote, for a moment Bitterscote is a locality situated on the riverside in Staffordshire, with an elevation of 67 metres above sea level. Bitterscote lies approximately 6.6 miles from the city of Lichfield and is part of the wider West Midlands region. Bitterscote is characterized by its predominantly flat housing stock and is close to nearby places such as Tamworth and Kettlebrook. Bitterscote has a small population of around 525 residents. ## AdBlue drains across Staffordshire, Bitterscote included Bitterscote is a small village, and our teams that cover it also work the places near it, Kettlebrook and The Leys among them, across the B postcode area. A postcode starting B78 3 gets the van to you fastest. No need to move your car. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Platinum Jubilee Garden, a side street close to Platinum Jubilee: our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. Guessing doesn't help behind 70, on a border, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check. ## The short version for Bitterscote motorists Read the cap before you tip. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank anyway, leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Staffordshire.