--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Colletts Green: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/colletts-green-worcestershire/ location: Colletts Green county: Worcestershire latitude: 52.160380 longitude: -2.267540 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-23 --- # Colletts Green: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? AdBlue already in your diesel tank? In that case set this page aside for now, keep the ignition and motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Caught before your engine runs, it's normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Colletts Green. Reading before the event? Then the rest explains why it happens and what to prevent it happening at all. ## AdBlue in a diesel vehicle, and its separate tank No single liquid but two: that's how many modern diesels near Colletts Green and Powick carry, with diesel feeding your motor. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. There is a filler for each tank. Plenty of cars share a single flap for both, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. A driver who has to stop and think where it goes normally tops up the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less regularly. Mistakes happen in the gap between them. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank in Colletts Green: how it occurs Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is seldom one of them. Hurry comes from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off The Drive, or heading home in the car park outside Three Nuns. The old car's cap is where the hand goes — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That's the second thing: an unfamiliar vehicle. And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. Dawshill or the heart of Colletts Green: it is the same few seconds in both. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Whether a Colletts Green forecourt or a driveway out in Powick Village, take a couple of seconds over these before anything goes in. - Where it sits can mislead; the cap does not. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally do not. - Plenty of motors fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Plenty of motors say there which fuel goes where. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which. - Check with 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 Worcester Foregate Street. ## How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Worcestershire that is. - Turn off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and not in a rush beside Sparrowhall Lane at the roadside. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick. - Both under a single flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel side is still closed ahead of lifting the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Shut the cap, then check again — confirm your diesel filler stayed closed the whole time. Only then, start your car. Find during the second or third stage that AdBlue went in the diesel tank? That is where you stop. Don't go on to step five. ## Colletts Green: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so don't switch the car on. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the base rather than blending — and that's where the fuel is pulled from. The staff at JET, Gulf or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car clear if asked. If you are on your own driveway in Colletts Green, leave it where it is. If the engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. The next exit is where to leave if you're on the M5, under 5 miles from Colletts Green. A short hop across Colletts Green is a smaller job than a run towards Worcester, under 5 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went. ## When our technicians turn up in Colletts Green, what takes place? By Powick CofE Primary School, near Powick Parish Hall or on your own drive: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. We ask what went in, about how much, and if it's run, since those replies determine the work and our quote. The price comes over the phone, before any van leaves. Emptying the tank comes next, followed by a full flush of your system. 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 the flush counts more here than with petrol. The filter cleaned or, where needed, swapped; clean diesel in; then a test of the vehicle. The engine is fired up next and checked to confirm it runs properly, all before our engineers go. Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as your motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Colletts Green and where it is Colletts Green is a small village in Worcestershire, situated near the city of Worcester and surrounded by other local places such as Dawshill and Kings End. Colletts Green has a population of around 969 people and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Colletts Green sits at an elevation of 55 metres, in a gently sloping inland area of the West Midlands region. Colletts Green is located approximately 3 miles from Worcester and 101.9 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Colletts Green, and Worcestershire beyond Colletts Green is a rural village, and our vans that cover it also work the places around it, Kings End and Bastonford among them, across the WR postcode area. A postcode starting WR2 4 gets the van to you fastest. Shifting the vehicle isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Powick Hospital Playing Field, a side street close to Broadfields Maize Maze: our engineers drain the car where it sits. Guessing doesn't help behind St Peter & St Lawrence, close to a border, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and ask. ## In short, for Colletts Green people Always, the cap; then, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank all the same, leave the car off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it waits, anywhere in Worcestershire.