--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Hunters Forstal? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/hunters-forstal-kent/ location: Hunters Forstal county: Kent latitude: 51.358120 longitude: 1.139990 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-08 --- # Avoiding AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Hunters Forstal: Why It Occurs AdBlue already in the diesel tank? Then put this page down for now, leave your ignition and motor off, then call 0333 366 0103. A drain and a thorough flush, carried out just where your car sits around Hunters Forstal, is usually all it takes if caught before the motor runs. The rest of this page covers why it occurs and how to ensure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened. ## Two fillers, two tanks: AdBlue in a diesel car Diesel feeds your engine — yet plenty of modern diesels seen about Hunters Forstal and Eddington hold another liquid too. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own. There is a filler for each tank. On a lot of motors the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is topped up at the petrol pump all the time. The AdBlue side is topped up far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and normally by someone who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in the gap that the error lives. ## Hunters Forstal: how AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up. Haste follows from the warning. Your car tells you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a drive off Mill Lane, or on the way home in the car park at The Smugglers Inn. New-to-you vehicles come second, as well. Hire cars, new vehicles and company vehicles put their fillers in new places, and habit reaches for the cap used on the old one. A spout-topped bottle finds no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, keeps on. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Lower Herne or bang in the heart of Hunters Forstal. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Before you tip anything, whether on a drive in Beltinge or a forecourt in Hunters Forstal, check these. They take a few seconds. - Blue and marking: an AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Trust the cap, not where it sits. - The size. On many vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - Open the filler flap and check for a label — many motors mark which belongs in which filler right there. - The handbook. If your filler is not by the diesel cap, it's in the boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which. - Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park outside Herne Bay? Check with the person who drove the car last before you set off, not when the light comes on. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank Anywhere around Kent the light comes on, this is a routine for that day. - Switch off after you park — flat ground, engine off, and not rushed by Hunters Forstal Road at the roadside. - Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you have located the filler and read it. - Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty. - Close the cap and check a second time. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start the vehicle. Find at the second or third step that the bottle went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Never carry on to stage five. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Hunters Forstal already? Short order, then. Top of that: the motor remains unstarted. Do not switch your ignition on; on plenty of diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, since AdBlue settles to the base rather than mixing — and that is where the fuel is drawn from. If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the Sainsbury's or the Esso, ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the pump. Leave it where it is if you are on your own drive around Hunters Forstal. Already run? Pull over when it's sensible, then switch off. On the M2, under 10 miles from Hunters Forstal, that means the next junction. A short hop across Hunters Forstal is a smaller job than a run towards Canterbury, under 10 miles away, and so tell us roughly how far it went. ## Hunters Forstal: what happens when our engineers get there Wherever the vehicle came to rest, be it outside Herne Church of England Junior School, near Three Birds Looking or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since the replies decide the work and our price. You get that quote on the phone, before anybody sets off. Draining your tank comes next, then a full flush of the fuel system. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel goes in, and the fuel filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. We don't go until it has been started and is running properly. With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where the engine has not run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the documents an insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. While we travel, have a look at your policy; plenty include cover for misfuelling. ## About Hunters Forstal, for a moment Hunters Forstal is a village in Kent, situated near the coast and approximately 6 miles from Canterbury. Hunters Forstal has a population of around 3017 people and is characterised by predominantly detached housing. Hunters Forstal sits at an elevation of 44 metres, with the nearby villages of Lower Herne, Herne, and Broomfield also forming part of the local community. Hunters Forstal is located within the South East region, about 55.6 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Hunters Forstal and across Kent Herne and Broomfield are among the towns near Hunters Forstal, a coastal village, that the same vans cover, throughout CT postcodes. Quote a postcode that starts CT6 7, and the van gets there quickest. Moving your car isn't needed. The drain takes place on the spot, be it a drive, a road by Pilot Officer Albert Friday 30 Aug 1942, or a lay-by towards Talmead Park. Ring and ask rather than assuming if you are close to a boundary, or somewhere hard to explain, like the back of Broomfield Methodist Church. ## Hunters Forstal drivers: the short version First, the cap; after that, the pour. If AdBlue has gone in the diesel tank regardless, leave the vehicle off and call 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel clears it where it waits, anywhere around Kent.