--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Bradpole canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/bradpole-dorset/ location: Bradpole county: Dorset latitude: 50.745490 longitude: -2.737410 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-14 --- # Bradpole: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? Keep your motor and ignition off then phone 0333 366 0103 now — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Around Bradpole, catching it before the engine runs usually leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. Not happened yet? Further down, the page explains the why it happens and the ways to avoid it for good. ## Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car Not one liquid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels near Bradpole and Loders carry, with diesel for the engine. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Separate tanks, separate fillers. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. On others, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. Diesel gets filled on every filling station call-out, week in, week out. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and usually by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. That gap is where the error lives. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank in Bradpole: how it happens Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide. To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Middle Street, or outside Pymore Inn on the way home after work. The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers elsewhere. That is the second factor: an unfamiliar car. Nothing stops 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. It's seconds, whether out in St Andrews Well or right in the heart of Bradpole. ## Which filler is for AdBlue, and which for diesel? Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Wooth or a forecourt around Bradpole, check these. They take a couple of seconds. - Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually doesn't. Go by the cap, not its position. - The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - Lift the flap and look for a label — many cars mark what goes in each filler right there. - The handbook. If your filler isn't by your diesel cap, it is in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which. - Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Maiden Newton. ## How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank Anywhere around Dorset the light comes on, here is a routine for that day. - Switch off once parked — level ground, engine off, and never in a rush beside St James Park on the verge. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, yes, but it does the trick. - The diesel cap remains on. When the two share a flap, confirm it's shut before the bottle comes up. - Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it's full or the bottle is empty. - Shut the cap, and look again — making sure your diesel cap remained closed throughout. Only then, start the vehicle. Find at the second or third stage that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Stage five stays off limits. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank already, in Bradpole? Then the order of things is short. Don't start your motor. On plenty of diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Diluting it with extra diesel fails, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that's where your fuel is pulled from. If you're on a forecourt, whether it's the Esso or the Morrisons, ask the staff to help push the car clear of the pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own driveway around Bradpole. Stop as soon as it is safe and switch off, if your motor has already run. Bradpole sits under 25 miles from the M5; there, use the first exit. A short hop across Bradpole is a smaller job than a run towards Wells, under 50 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went. ## Our arrival in Bradpole, and what occurs next Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside St Catherine's Roman Catholic School, close to Holy Trinity Church or on your own drive. Our technicians ask what got in, roughly how much, and if it's run, because those answers settle this work and the quote. That price comes on the call, before any van leaves. Emptying the tank comes next, then a full flush of your system. 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. A test is last: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is flushed or changed if necessary. Before leaving, our engineers start the car and confirm that it's running correctly. Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our technicians arrive, provided the engine has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up that day. At the end, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer are handed to you for the insurer. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many include cover for misfuelling. ## About Bradpole, briefly Bradpole is a small village in south Dorset, situated near the coast at an elevation of around 25 metres. Bradpole lies within a short distance of several nearby settlements, including St Andrews Well, Pymore, and Coneygar. Bradpole has a population of approximately 1394 residents, who mostly live in detached houses. Bradpole is located near the Somerset border, about 32 miles from Wells and 125 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Bradpole and across Dorset Pymore and Coneygar are among the places near Bradpole, a coastal village, that the same vans cover, throughout DT postcodes. A postcode starting DT6 3 gets the van to you fastest. The car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street near St Mary Magdalene, a lay-by on the way to Flaxhayes Playing Field, a drive. Assuming doesn't help behind Loders Village Hall, close to a boundary, or somewhere awkward to describe; ring and ask. ## In short, for Bradpole motorists Before you pour, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere in Dorset, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103.