--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Drakes Cross: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/drakes-cross-worcestershire/ location: Drakes Cross county: Worcestershire latitude: 52.386460 longitude: -1.876530 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-01 --- # Drakes Cross: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Avoid It? If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off then call 0333 366 0103. In Drakes Cross, finding it before the engine runs normally leaves draining and a full flush on the spot. Here in advance? In that case what follows covers why it happens and how to prevent it happening at all. ## AdBlue in a diesel car, and its separate tank Plenty of newer diesels on the roads around Drakes Cross and Batemans Green carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is fed into your exhaust stream and cleans it. Each tank has one filler of its own. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while others put the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. At the pump, the diesel side gets filled constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually comes out of a bottle, poured by a driver who has to stop and think what filler it needs. The mistake grows in that gap between the two. ## Drakes Cross: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things coincide. The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low the car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the car goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Sycamore Drive before work, or in the car park outside The Packhorse on the way home. Then, the hand reaches for the cap it knew on the old car — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not. And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip after it has started. Hollywood or the heart of Drakes Cross: it takes the same few seconds either way. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Truemans Heath or a forecourt in Drakes Cross. - Read the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are regularly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps usually aren't. - Check the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one. - A label inside the fuel flap often says which fuel goes where, on many motors. Check for it. - The handbook shows where it lives when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet. - Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Wythall? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than when the light goes on. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Worcestershire that is. - Not in a rush on the side of Rowan Close, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once you find the AdBlue filler and read it. Daft, perhaps, but it works. - Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, then check once more — making sure your diesel cap remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Stage five stays out. ## Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Drakes Cross? Then the order of things is short. Do not start your motor. Do not switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Do not top up with diesel to dilute it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from. Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you're on a forecourt — the JET, the Texaco or anywhere else. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Drakes Cross. Already run? Pull over once it's sensible, then turn off. On the M42, under 3 miles from Drakes Cross, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Hopping across Drakes Cross is less a job than a trip of under 10 miles to Birmingham, so say. ## When our engineers get there in Drakes Cross, what occurs? Our technicians come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Coppice Primary School, close to Woodrush Sports Centre or on your own driveway. We ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it has run, since those answers decide this work and our price. You hear that price on the phone, before anyone sets off. Draining your tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more with AdBlue than with petrol. The filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. After that we start it and check it runs properly before leaving. If your engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there, using pumps that are fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house after dark. Payment happens on the day, not upfront, and you are given the paperwork an insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it is worth checking yours while we are on the way. ## About Drakes Cross and where it is Drakes Cross is a locality in the West Midlands region of England, situated approximately 6.5 miles southwest of Birmingham. Drakes Cross sits at an elevation of 157 metres, in a predominantly inland area of Worcestershire. Drakes Cross is characterised by its detached housing and is located near other localities such as Hollywood and Shawbrook. Drakes Cross is home to around 3002 residents, who are within easy reach of Birmingham's amenities. ## Drakes Cross and Worcestershire: AdBlue drains across the area Over B postcodes, our vans that cover Drakes Cross — a small village — work the surrounding spots too, Grimes Hill and Shawbrook included. Fastest of all: give a B47 5 postcode to our van. Your car remains put. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Harmony Wood, a side street close to St Mary's: we drain it where it stands. Ring and ask rather than guessing if you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Woodrush Community Hub. ## In short, for Drakes Cross motorists Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Keep it off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, across Worcestershire.