--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Burbage canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/burbage-leicestershire/ location: Burbage county: Leicestershire latitude: 52.527680 longitude: -1.353960 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-15 --- # Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Burbage: Why It Occurs If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and the ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is around Burbage. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it doesn't. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel car need its own filler? Many current diesels on the roads round Burbage and Leicester Grange carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your engine. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into the exhaust gas and cleans it. Different tanks, different fillers. Some motors put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; plenty more have the two side by side under one flap. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled all the time. Much less regularly, the AdBlue side gets topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. That gap is where the error lives. ## How does AdBlue in your diesel tank take place around Burbage? Three things tend to come together, and carelessness is seldom one of them. On a driveway off Salem Road before work, or in the car park at The Sycamores heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle tells you, and if it is empty, limp mode kicks in. Next, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old vehicle — because a hire car, a new car or a company car places the fillers where your last one did not. No part halts the pour after it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. Sketchley or the heart of Burbage: it is the same few seconds in both. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler Before you tip anything, whether on a driveway in Hinckley or a forecourt around Burbage, check these. They take a few seconds. - Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not where it sits. - Many vehicles give AdBlue the smaller neck of the two. - Lift the flap and check for a label — plenty of cars show which goes in each filler just there. - Cannot see it beside your diesel filler? Then check below the bonnet or in the boot — the owner's manual says where. - The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Hinckley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up When the light goes on, anywhere across Leicestershire, use this routine. - Not in a rush on the side of Sketchley Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, perhaps, but it does the trick. - If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — then leave the vehicle on. - Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty. - Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Step five stays out. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank already, in Burbage? Don't start your engine: that is where the short order of things starts. The fuel pump starts on plenty of diesels the moment the ignition is switched on — and so keep it off. Filling up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the bottom of the tank, just where the fuel is drawn from. Ask the staff to help push the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you are at a forecourt — the Murco, the Esso or somewhere else. If you're on your own drive around Burbage, leave the car where it sits. If the motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next junction means the place to leave when you are on the M69, under a mile from Burbage. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Coventry, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Burbage. ## Burbage: what occurs when our technicians arrive We come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Burbage Junior School, near Burbage Methodist Church or on your own drive. Those replies settle the work and our price, so we ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone sets off. Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and your filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Your engine is started next and checked to be sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians go. Unrun vehicles usually mean a half-hour job from the moment we arrive. The equipment is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Paying is on the day, not upfront, and you are given the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Wrong-fuel cover is part of plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours. ## About Burbage Burbage is a suburban area in Leicestershire, situated approximately 10.5 miles from Coventry and 87.7 miles from London. Burbage sits at an elevation of around 133 metres, characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Burbage is located near other local places such as Sketchley, Sketchley Old Village, and The Crescent, and has a population of around 6060 residents. ## Burbage and Leicestershire: AdBlue drains across the area Sketchley Old Village and The Crescent are among the places near Burbage, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, throughout LE postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning LE10 2, and our van gets there quickest. No need to move the vehicle. Anywhere it stands — near Burbage Millenium Hall, on a layby heading to Pughes Paddock, at home — that's where it gets drained. If you are close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Burbage Congregational Church, ring and ask rather than assuming. ## In short, for Burbage motorists Before you tip, read the cap. Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, anywhere around Leicestershire, if AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless — and so leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103.