--- title: Crofts End: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, What Next canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/crofts-end-bristol/ location: Crofts End county: Bristol latitude: 51.466140 longitude: -2.539810 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-09 --- # What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Crofts End Has your motor turned over since the AdBlue went in? That single question decides almost everything else from here. Wherever your car stands — Rose Green, Crofts End — don't run a motor that has not been started yet. Normally that is emptying and thoroughly rinsing it right there in Crofts End — and so leave the key and motor off then phone 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening step. Below: the situations we meet, wherever around Bristol. Choose yours. ## At the petrol pump around Crofts End: AdBlue in a diesel Picture it: standing by the petrol pump, holding the nozzle, you realise the cap you opened was not the right one. Be it Texaco, Morrisons or somewhere else in Crofts End, the situation is identical. Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it gets. Still in that tank, and nothing drawn onwards: that is where the AdBlue is. Clearing the petrol pump is no reason to start it — and so do not get back in. Get the attendants to lend a hand pushing it to a space, save the bottle, then ring us from there. If it cannot be shifted, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a working forecourt. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank at home around Crofts End On your dash, a reminder had shown all week. Only by the recycling, the empty container in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had used at the driveway. Houses just off Cheers Drive get caught out as often as everywhere else. Put simply: if the car has not been driven since, it is almost as good as finding out at the pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of the tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that. What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves the vehicle in the morning. Then call. Clay Hill or Crofts End: wherever your drive is, that is where it gets cleared. Even at night, our pumps stay quiet enough for a driveway. ## On the road around Crofts End with AdBlue in a diesel Rough running, smoke, falling power or a glowing dashboard started a short way after the fill. Somewhere along Cecil Avenue or on the road towards Bristol — under 3 miles away. In short: the AdBlue has been sucked through the fuel system. It's been through your filter and your lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and the injectors. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper. Pull in somewhere safe — that's the first job — then switch everything off. Leave at the next junction — not the services beyond — if you're on the M32, under 3 miles from Crofts End. No trial restarts: clearing itself isn't something AdBlue will do. Call, and say how far the vehicle went. ## A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank? You have only had this vehicle a week. The AdBlue filler is right alongside the diesel one, which you did not know, since your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Any driver, wherever in Bristol, might make it. The upshot: just as above, split by whether it ran, only with an added step. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car. Do this: rental firm or fleet manager to begin with, us next, because sorting it early saves time. If you are stranded in the car park outside Stapleton Road, or by Speedwell Chapel, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off. ## Crofts End: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? "I think so" is often the most honest answer there is. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia around the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. The gates of Summerhill Academy in a rush, perhaps, or a friend's driveway over in Clay Bottom. In short: a spill round your filler leaves the engine no harm. A diesel tank with AdBlue inside is another story. Starting your car won't tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it will suck it in. Take it that it was put in, and never start the key. Checking a tank that turns out clean is better than emptying one once it's been run — so ring then describe to us what you saw. ## Each AdBlue drain in Crofts End shares these stages The work begins the same way, whatever your case. Three questions come when our technicians reach your car — on a forecourt, a drive, a street beside Crofts End Church or the car park at Wackum Inn: the liquid, the quantity, and if the motor has run. Those answers settle the work, and you hear the quote by phone, before anyone sets off. Then that tank is emptied and the fuel system flushed thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Clean diesel is put in once your filter is flushed or changed, and your car is then checked. If the motor hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there. The last step is firing it up. Our check that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before our technicians head off. The entire job is done where the vehicle is, and if it is spotted soon, permanent damage is very uncommon. 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, so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way. ## About Crofts End, for a moment Crofts End is a village situated on the lakeside in the county of Bristol, with an elevation of around 60 metres. Crofts End lies close to the city of Bristol, approximately 2.8 miles away, and is near other places such as Clay Hill, Whiteway, and Speedwell. Crofts End has a population of around 5412 people and is characterised by predominantly terraced housing. ## AdBlue drains in Crofts End, and across Bristol too Being a village, Crofts End shares its vans with the nearby towns — Speedwell, Whiteway — right through BS postcodes. Giving us a BS5 7 postcode finds you quickest of all. No moving is required, whether parked centrally in Crofts End or in a layby en route to Plummer's Hill, so leave it put. Draining is done on the spot. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Absolutely Karting or close to a border, ring and ask rather than assuming. ## In one line: your scenario If it hasn't started, ring and leave it off. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Crofts End and anywhere in Bristol on 0333 366 0103.