--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Great Bowden: What Now canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/great-bowden-leicestershire/ location: Great Bowden county: Leicestershire latitude: 52.492390 longitude: -0.904700 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-25 --- # What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Great Bowden One fact matters above all when AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and it is if your motor has been started since. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the car is around Great Bowden itself or out in Dingley. Call 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. Across Great Bowden, that is generally emptied and cleaned on the spot. Stop the minute it is safe and turn off, if it has already run. It is a bigger job, though stage one doesn't change. Compare what happened to a situation from the list below, wherever in Leicestershire you happen to be. ## At the pump in Great Bowden: AdBlue in a diesel You are at the pump, the nozzle or the bottle still in your hand, and you have just noticed the cap you opened was the wrong one. Whether Tesco Express, Sainsbury's or somewhere else around Great Bowden, the case is the same. Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. Nothing has pulled it in, and so the AdBlue stays just in your tank. What to do: don't get back in and fire it up to clear the pump. Ask the staff to help you roll your car into a parking space, keep the receipt or the bottle, and call us from the forecourt. Stuck by the pump? Explosion-proof kit keeps a live forecourt safe, so it can be drained in place. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Great Bowden The warning light had been on for days. Only by the recycling, the empty bottle in your hand, did you look back at the cap you had opened at the driveway. It takes place on driveways just off Langton Road as frequently as anywhere. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. AdBlue does not mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight does not change that. Your move: the keys in the house, so nobody drives the car anywhere at breakfast. Then, ring. Our engineers drain the car on your driveway, whether that's in Great Bowden or out in Market Harborough. Our pumping kit runs quiet enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night. ## Great Bowden: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel? A short way after filling up, your engine began misbehaving: rough running, smoke, lost power, warnings on your dash. Perhaps it was on Main Street, maybe on the way out towards Leicester, under 15 miles away. What it means: the fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. The injection pump and each injector get it as well on a bigger run, after the fuel filter and lines have had it. Each restart, like each mile, pushes it deeper. Next: find a safe place, pull in, and switch the motor off. Leave by the next junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M1, under 15 miles from Great Bowden. No trial starts: clearing is not something AdBlue will do. Phone us and say how far you travelled. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles You have just driven this car a week. Your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue cap was right beside the diesel. Anywhere you are across Leicestershire, every driver can slip up. Meaning? Whatever case above counts too — run or unrun — plus one extra step. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under plenty of hire and fleet agreements. Next: ring the rental company or your fleet manager first, and then us — sorting it before our arrival is faster. If you are stranded in the car park outside Market Harborough, or by Great Bowden Village Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave your car off. ## Great Bowden: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? Truthfully, the only answer may be that you think it did. Which cap was taken off, you can't recall; meanwhile the bottle weighs lighter than expected, and a whiff of ammonia lingers by your filler. A hurried top-up by the gates of Great Bowden Academy, A Church of England Primary School, or a visit to a friend in Thorpe Langton: either fits. What it means: a little spilled around your filler does no damage to your engine. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. Any AdBlue in your tank would be sucked in by turning on your car, and the start would not settle which it is in any case. Your move: act as though it got in, and don't start your engine. Call us and explain what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run. ## What every AdBlue drain around Great Bowden has in common Every case has the same start to the work. Three questions come once our technicians reach the car — on a filling station, a driveway, a road beside Great Bowden: St Peter & St Paul or the car park outside Red Lion: the fluid, the amount, and if the motor has been started. Your price comes over the phone, ahead of anyone setting off, and those replies shape the job. Then the tank is cleared and your system purged thoroughly, which counts more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it does not rinse out on its own. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. Where your engine has not run, expect roughly half an hour on site, in most cases. Lastly, we fire it up. Our check that it runs properly on fresh diesel comes before we head off. Our technicians do the whole job where the vehicle is, and lasting damage is very unusual if it has been spotted quickly. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Many policies include misfuelling, and so look at yours as we head over. ## About Great Bowden, briefly Great Bowden is a small village in Leicestershire, situated on the banks of a river at an elevation of around 84 metres. Great Bowden lies near the town of Market Harborough and is close to the nearby villages of Little Bowden and Sutton Bassett. Great Bowden has a population of approximately 700 people and is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Great Bowden is located about 13.7 miles from Leicester and around 75.7 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Great Bowden and across Leicestershire Great Bowden is a village, and the same teams that cover it work the towns around it too, Little Bowden and Sutton Bassett among them, across the LE postcode area. Giving us a LE16 7 postcode finds you fastest of all. No towing is required, whether parked centrally in Great Bowden or on a lay-by en route to The Green, so leave it put. Wherever it stands, that is where it gets cleared. If you are somewhere hard to describe, near Mini Mischiefs or close to a border, ring and ask instead of guessing. ## The one-line version Motor not started: phone, and leave it alone. Already run: stop, switch off and call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Great Bowden and anywhere around Leicestershire on 0333 366 0103.