--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Blossomfield: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/blossomfield-west-midlands/ location: Blossomfield county: West Midlands latitude: 52.405670 longitude: -1.802040 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-03 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Blossomfield: How It Occurs and How to Prevent It If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your engine and your ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the car is in Blossomfield. Nothing happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it occurs and the ways to avoid it for good. ## AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers Many newer diesels on the roads about Blossomfield and Solihull carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the engine. AdBlue's own tank holds it, and from there it goes to your exhaust, and there spraying cleans the fumes. Different tanks, separate fillers. Plenty of cars have a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the pump all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, tipped by a driver who must stop and think what filler to use. The mistake grows in the gap between the two. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank in Blossomfield: how it happens It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up. Hurry comes from the warning. The car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Kingslea Road, or on the way home in the car park outside Woodmans Rest. Then the vehicle is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and your hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one. Nothing halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Sharmans Cross or the heart of Blossomfield: it takes the same few seconds in both. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Blossomfield or a drive out in Monkspath. A few seconds, that's all. - Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps tend to be blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't. - On plenty of vehicles, size tells: AdBlue gets the smaller filler neck. - Open the flap and check for a label — many cars mark which goes in each inlet right there. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where the filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Solihull, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of your diesel tank when you top up Wherever in West Midlands the light comes on, this is a routine for that day. - Turn off after you park — level ground, engine off, and not in a rush beside Pinewood Grove at the roadside. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick. - Both under one flap? Then confirm the cap on the diesel side stays closed before lifting the bottle. - Gently is best, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle runs out. - Shut the cap, and look once more — confirm the diesel filler remained closed throughout. Only then, start your car. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Step five stays off limits. ## Put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Blossomfield already? Brief order, then. First: your motor stays unstarted. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition goes on — so keep it off. Topping up with diesel won't weaken it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of your tank, just where fuel is taken from. On a forecourt — BP, Sainsbury's or another — the attendants will normally help roll your car clear, if you ask. Your own driveway around Blossomfield is the place it stays. Already run? Pull over when it is safe, then turn off. Leave the M42 — under 3 miles out of Blossomfield — at the first exit. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Birmingham, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Blossomfield. ## Our arrival around Blossomfield, and what occurs next Anywhere your car came to rest, whether outside Cranmore Infant School, near Solihull Sports and Social Club or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Those answers decide the work and the price, so our technicians ask what went in, about how much, and whether it has run. No one heads out until you've had our quote by phone. Then your tank is cleared and the system purged thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that counts more here than with petrol. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Next our technicians start it and confirm it runs correctly before we leave. Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as the engine has not run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet at night outside a house. No money upfront; you settle up on the day. At the end, a VAT invoice and the report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. While we travel, take a look at your insurance documents; plenty include cover for misfuelling. ## About Blossomfield itself Blossomfield is a suburban area in the West Midlands, situated near the River Cole and characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Blossomfield sits at an elevation of 141 metres, approximately 6.6 miles southwest of Birmingham city centre. Blossomfield is close to nearby places such as Sharmans Cross, Shirley Street, and Shirley Heath, and is home to around 4825 residents. Blossomfield is located about 94.5 miles northwest of London, in a region of England with a mix of urban and rural landscapes. ## Blossomfield and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area Blossomfield is a residential suburb, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Shirley Street and Shirley Heath among them, across the B postcode area. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting B91 1. The car stays where it is. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Parish Poles (Ancient Woodland), a side street close to Next: our engineers drain the vehicle where it sits. Ring and ask instead of guessing if you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of TK Maxx. ## For Blossomfield drivers, the short version Before you pour, read the cap. Even so AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will drain it wherever it stands, anywhere in West Midlands: keep the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103.