--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Eccles: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/eccles-kent/ location: Eccles county: Kent latitude: 51.318060 longitude: 0.478900 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-26 --- # Eccles: How Does AdBlue End Up in a Diesel Tank, and How Do You Prevent It? If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave the motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where your vehicle stands around Eccles, is normally what it takes if caught before your motor runs. Not happened yet? Below, the page explains the why it takes place and the how to avoid it altogether. ## AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers Not one liquid but two: that is how plenty of modern diesels around Eccles and Millhall carry, with diesel feeding the engine. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Each tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of vehicles share a single flap for the two, whereas some move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump goes on constantly. Seldom topped up, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which cap it needs. That gap is where the slip lives. ## Eccles: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens It is seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up. Hurry comes from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and an empty tank sends the vehicle into limp mode — so the top-up happens quickly, before work on a drive off Bull Lane, or heading home in the car park at The Red Bull. Next, your hand goes for the cap it knew on the old car — because a rental car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not. Lastly, the spout goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue filler, it slides in just as readily, and once the tip starts, no part halts it. Whether it takes place in Aylesford or the middle of Eccles, it's the same few seconds. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Before you pour anything, whether on a driveway in Kits Coty or a forecourt in Eccles, check these. They take a couple of seconds. - Colour and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap usually does not. Go by the cap, not its position. - Many vehicles fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - Lift the flap and look for a label — plenty of cars show what belongs in which inlet right there. - Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? Then look beneath the bonnet or in the boot — the handbook will say where. - 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 outside New Hythe. ## Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up Wherever across Kent the light comes on, this is a routine for the day. - Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Varnes Street. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works. - The diesel cap stays on. When both share a flap, make sure it's shut before lifting the bottle. - 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 once more, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Discover during the second or third step that the bottle went into the diesel tank? That's where you stop. Never carry on to step five. ## Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Eccles? Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where the fuel is drawn from. If you are at a forecourt, whether it is the JET or the Shell, ask the staff to help roll the car away from the pump. Your own drive around Eccles is the place it should stay. When your motor has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. The next exit is where to come off if you are on the M20, under 3 miles from Eccles. A short hop across Eccles is a smaller job than a run towards Southend-on-Sea, under 25 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went. ## When our engineers get there around Eccles, what happens? Outside St Mark's Church of England Primary School, Eccles, close to Roman Building or on your own driveway: wherever your car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Those replies settle this work and our price, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. On the call itself, you hear our price — before dispatch. Draining that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and eats at certain fuel-system metals, and none of it clears away unaided. Hence it matters more. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; then a check of your car. After that we start it and check it runs properly before leaving. Unstarted vehicles mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is fine on a live forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment comes on the day, with no money upfront. It's worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies. ## About Eccles, briefly Eccles is a village in Kent, situated inland at an elevation of 52 metres, and is located near the villages of Aylesford, Burham, and Pratling Street. Eccles has a population of approximately 1706 residents and features predominantly terraced housing. Eccles is within commuting distance of London, being around 29 miles from the capital, and is also close to the city of Southend-on-Sea, which is 18 miles away. Eccles remains a small, rural community with a strong sense of local identity. ## AdBlue drains about Eccles, and Kent beyond Burham and Pratling Street are among the towns around Eccles, a rural village, that the same teams cover, throughout ME postcodes. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting ME20 7. The car doesn't need to shift. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to Coffin Stone, a lay-by on the way to Burham Park, a driveway. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you're near a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of The Old School Community Centre. ## For Eccles motorists, the short version Read the cap before you pour. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off then ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, anywhere around Kent.