--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Great Haywood canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/great-haywood-staffordshire/ location: Great Haywood county: Staffordshire latitude: 52.801700 longitude: -2.005880 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-28 --- # Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Great Haywood: Why It Occurs Leave the engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, when the motor has not run, it is emptied and thoroughly flushed where your car is around Great Haywood. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it happens and how to make sure it does not. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler? Plenty of modern diesels on the roads around Great Haywood and Colwich carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to your motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Every tank comes with a filler of its own. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while some put the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, normally from a bottle, and normally by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them. ## Great Haywood: how AdBlue in your diesel tank happens Rarely is it carelessness: usually three things coincide. On a driveway off Main Road before work, or in the car park outside Clifford Arms heading home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car warns you, and if it's empty, limp mode kicks in. Unfamiliar cars are next, as well. Hire cars, new cars and company cars place their fillers in new places, and the hand goes for the cap it used on the old one. Third, the bottle goes in: diesel filler or AdBlue one, it slides in just as easily, and once the tip begins, no part stops it. Little Haywood or the middle of Great Haywood: it takes the same few seconds in both. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Whether a Great Haywood forecourt or a drive over in Milford, spend a few seconds on these before any goes in. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is regularly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it instead of going by where it sits. - Check the size: the smaller neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one. - Lift the filler flap and look for a label — many cars mark which goes in which filler just there. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where the filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - Picking up a hire or company car, perhaps at the car park at Rugeley Trent Valley? Ask whoever drove it last before you set off, not when the light comes on. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Staffordshire that is. - Stop on level, engine off, with time to spare — never rushing on the side of Trent Close. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, once finding the AdBlue filler and read it. Silly, yes, yet it works. - Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, and look once more — confirm your diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. Only then, start your car. Stop there if you find, at step two or three, that you've already poured into your diesel side. Stage five stays out. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank around Great Haywood? What follows is a short order of things, starting with no starting the motor. Leave the ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it by itself runs your fuel pump. Diluting it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the bottom rather than blending — and that's where your fuel is drawn from. On a forecourt — Harvest Energy, Esso or another — the attendants will normally help push your car clear, when you ask. At home around Great Haywood? Then the vehicle remains put. Already started? Pull over when it's sensible, then switch off. The next exit means the place to leave when you are on the M6, under 5 miles from Great Haywood. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Great Haywood makes a smaller job than driving under 15 miles to Lichfield — so say roughly how far it went. ## When our engineers get there in Great Haywood, what occurs? Wherever the vehicle has stopped, whether by Anson CofE Primary School, near Haywood Hall or on your own drive, our van comes to it. What fluid was put in, the quantity, and if it ran: we ask because those replies set the work and price. On the phone call itself, you are told the price — before anything else. Emptying your tank comes next, followed by a full flush of the fuel system. Not like petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and none of it clears out unaided. That is why it matters more. A test comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is flushed or changed as needed. We don't leave until it has been started and is running smoothly. Most jobs are finished in about half an hour once our engineers get there, as long as the motor has not run — and the pumps we use are fine on a live forecourt yet quiet at night outside a house. Nothing upfront; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, a VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for the insurer. Misfuelling cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — so use the wait to check yours. ## About Great Haywood and where it is Great Haywood is a village situated on the River Trent in Staffordshire, with a mix of semi-detached housing and other residential properties. Great Haywood sits at an elevation of 77 metres, near the confluence of the Trent and the River Sow, and is located close to the villages of Little Haywood and Tixall. Great Haywood has a population of around 2029 people and is approximately 11 miles from the city of Lichfield. Great Haywood is also within commuting distance of larger cities, being around 120 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains about Great Haywood, and Staffordshire beyond Little Ingestre and Tixall are among the towns around Great Haywood, a village, that the same vans cover, throughout ST postcodes. A postcode starting ST18 0 gets the van to you fastest. Moving the vehicle is not needed. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street close to St John the Baptist Catholic Church, a lay-by on the way to Arboretum, a driveway. Awkward to explain, like the back of Great Haywood Memorial Hall? Close to a border? Checking beats assuming, and so ring. ## Great Haywood drivers: the short version Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, throughout Staffordshire.