--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Broomhill canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/broomhill-nottinghamshire/ location: Broomhill county: Nottinghamshire latitude: 53.027620 longitude: -1.193640 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-09 --- # How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Broomhill AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case put this page aside for now, keep the ignition and engine off, and ring 0333 366 0103. Around Broomhill, finding it before your engine turns normally leaves a drain and a thorough flush where it stands. Here before the event? In that case what follows covers why it comes about and what to prevent it happening at all. ## AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank Plenty of modern diesels in Hazelgrove, like those in Broomhill, carry on two fluids; your engine gets just the diesel. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, where a spray treats the gas. Separate tanks, separate fillers. Other motors keep the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have the two side by side behind one flap. The diesel side is filled at the petrol pump all the time. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who must stop and think which filler it needs. That gap is where the mistake lives. ## How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place around Broomhill Carelessness rarely causes it. What does is three things coming up at once. Haste follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up gets done quickly, before work on a drive off Nottingham Road, or on the way home in the car park at The Bowman. Next, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car places the fillers somewhere your last one did not. No part halts the pour once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Broomhill or out in Butlers Hill. ## The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart A few seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Ruffs or a forecourt around Broomhill. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is often blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally is not. Read it rather than going by position. - The size. On plenty of motors the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - A label inside your fuel flap often shows which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it. - The handbook. If your filler isn't by the 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 collect a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Hucknall. ## How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank The day the light comes on, anywhere across Nottinghamshire, follow this routine. - Park and switch off. Not on a slope, not with the motor running, and not in a rush on the side of St. John's Crescent. - Silly as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found the filler and read it. - The two under a single flap? Then confirm the cap on your diesel side is still shut ahead of raising the bottle. - Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty. - Shut the cap, then look once more — confirm the diesel cap stayed closed throughout. After that, start your car. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five is off limits. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Broomhill already? What follows is a short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels as soon as your ignition goes on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: rather than mixing, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, right where fuel is drawn from. On a forecourt — Tesco, Texaco or any other — the attendants will usually help push the car clear, if you ask. If you're on your own drive around Broomhill, leave the vehicle where it stands. Stop as soon as it is safe then switch off, if your engine has already run. The next exit means where to come off when you are on the M1, under 3 miles from Broomhill. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing Broomhill is smaller work than a run of under 10 miles to Nottingham, and so tell us. ## When our engineers get there around Broomhill, what occurs? Anywhere the car has stopped, whether outside Broomhill Junior School, near St John the Evangelist or on your own drive, the van travels to it. Our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, since those replies decide the work and the price. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off. Then that tank is drained and the fuel system flushed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. Filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of the car. We don't leave until it has been started and is running properly. If your motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer wants: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies. ## About Broomhill itself Broomhill is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Nottingham, situated near the River Trent at an elevation of 67 metres. Broomhill sits approximately 5 miles east of Nottingham city centre and is surrounded by other residential areas such as Butlers Hill and Bestwood Village. Broomhill has a population of around 4995 people and predominantly consists of semi-detached housing. Broomhill is also relatively close to other nearby places like Hucknall, while being about 114 miles north of London. ## AdBlue drains about Broomhill, and Nottinghamshire beyond As a residential suburb, Broomhill has the same vans as surrounding places — Bestwood Village, Hucknall — right across NG postcodes and the surrounding area around them. Our van reaches you fastest with a postcode starting NG15 7. The car doesn't need to move. The drain happens on the spot, whether a drive, a road near East Side Methodist Church, or a layby on the way to Titchfield Park. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe, like the back of Former Hucknall Colliery Site 1865 to 1985. ## The short version for Broomhill drivers Tip nothing until you've read the cap. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere in Nottinghamshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless — so leave the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.