--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Ickleton? Next Steps canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/ickleton-cambridgeshire/ location: Ickleton county: Cambridgeshire latitude: 52.072230 longitude: 0.177410 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-26 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Ickleton, and What to Do Next All of that hinges on one detail: if the motor has been run after the AdBlue went in — more than anything else. Not started so far? Then keep the car like that, wherever the vehicle is — Ickleton or Little Chesterford. Ring 0333 366 0103 with the ignition and engine both off. In Ickleton, such a case is typically emptied and cleaned where it stands. Where your motor has run, stop safely straight away, then turn the vehicle off. A bigger job, yes, yet the same first move. Wherever in Cambridgeshire it happened, one of the cases below fits yours. ## On a Ickleton forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you are standing at the pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. Be it BP, Shell or anywhere else around Ickleton, the case is identical. Meaning? Spotting it on the forecourt is the best it can be. No pump has drawn it through, and so the AdBlue stays only in that tank. What to do: don't get back in and crank it to clear the petrol pump. Ask the attendants to help you roll the car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, then ring us from the forecourt. Draining it right at the petrol pump is fine when it can't be shifted, since the equipment is explosion-proof. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Ickleton drive? For days the dash had been nagging you. Only by the recycling, the empty container in hand, did you glance back at the cap you'd used at the drive. Homes just off Frogge Street are hit as often as everywhere else. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is almost as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue keep apart: the AdBlue drops to the floor of your tank and remains put, however long it waits. Next: the keys in the house, so no one drives the vehicle anywhere at breakfast. Then, phone. Your driveway is where it gets drained, be it in Ickleton or Hinxton. Our pumping kit works quietly enough that it won't wake the neighbours at night. ## Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Ickleton? Filled up, pulled away, and before long the engine was running unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up the dash. It might have been driving to Cambridge, under 10 miles away, or just along Abbey Street. Meaning? The fuel pump has taken the AdBlue up. The injection pump and every injector see it too on a bigger run, once your filter and lines have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further. Pull in safely — that is the next job — then turn it off. On the M11, under a mile from Ickleton, that means the next exit, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, and so there is no point restarting to check. Phone, and say what distance your car went. ## A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank? A week back, the car was unknown to you. Your own car either does without AdBlue or puts it somewhere different, and so nothing told you the AdBlue cap was just next to your diesel. Across Cambridgeshire, no one is safe from it. What it means: the same as the situations above, depending on whether it's run, with one more step. The owner frequently has to approve the work, under many rental and fleet contracts. Next: phone the hire company or the fleet manager first, then us — sorting it before we arrive is faster. If you're stranded in the car park at Great Chesterford, or by Ickleton Village Hall, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off. ## Ickleton: unsure whether it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? Truthfully, the only answer might be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia round your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. A rushed stop by the gates of Great Chesterford Church of England Primary Academy, or a visit to a friend in Strethall: either fit. The upshot: your engine is not harmed by a little AdBlue splashed around the outside. Inside the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Starting your car will not tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in the tank it would draw it in. Assume it got in, and don't start the engine. Tell us what you noticed on the phone. A clear tank looked at is a happier result than an already-run one drained. ## What every AdBlue drain in Ickleton has in common Every case has the same opening to the work. Filling station, driveway, The Ickleton Lion's car park or a road by Saint Mary Magdalene (Ickleton Parish Church) — the van comes to the vehicle, and three questions come next: what liquid, which amount, and whether it ran. Replies set the work; the price comes by phone while nobody has left yet. Then that tank is cleared and the system flushed thoroughly, which matters 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. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Most unstarted cars are a half-hour job from the moment our technicians arrive. Finally, our technicians start it. Our technicians check it runs smoothly on clean diesel before leaving. Long-term damage is very uncommon if it is caught soon, and the whole job is done where the car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Worth knowing: many insurers offer misfuelling cover, and so a quick look at your policy as you wait is worthwhile. ## About Ickleton, briefly Ickleton is a village situated on the River Cam in Cambridgeshire, with a low elevation of around 39 metres. Ickleton lies near the city of Cambridge, approximately 9.5 miles to the south, and is also close to the villages of Hinxton and Great Chesterford. Ickleton has a population of around 748 people and is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock. Ickleton is located within the Eastern region of England, about 41.1 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains across Cambridgeshire, Ickleton included Great Chesterford and Duxford have the same teams as Ickleton, a village, plus other places throughout CB postcodes. The location comes quickest from a postcode that starts CB10 1. No towing is needed, be it parked centrally in Ickleton or on a layby heading to Wetlands Nature Reserve, so keep it where it is. The van empties it where it stands. Awkward to pin down? Close to War Memorial or a county line? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone. ## Your situation, in one line Engine not started: ring, leaving it alone. Run already: stop, switch down, ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder, within Ickleton or anywhere across Cambridgeshire.