--- title: What Now? AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Landport canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/landport-east-sussex/ location: Landport county: East Sussex latitude: 50.881390 longitude: -0.000830 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-02 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Landport: What Now? What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: if the motor has run since it went in. If it hasn't, keep it that way, whether the vehicle is around Landport itself or out in Lewes. Keep nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, and count on a proper flush after a drain, done right where the car stands in Landport. If it's run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The job is bigger, but the first stage is the same. Find the scenario below that matches yours, wherever across East Sussex it happened. ## On a Landport forecourt with AdBlue in a diesel The cap you opened was the wrong one — and you just spot it while you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or nozzle in your hand. It could be the Tesco, or perhaps the BP, or another forecourt around Landport. Put simply: no better spot to be to discover it. Only that tank has AdBlue; not one component past it has taken it in. What to do: don't get back in and start it to clear the petrol pump. Get the staff to help pushing it to a bay, hold on to the bottle, then ring us from there. Our equipment is explosion-proof and fine on a live forecourt, and so a vehicle that cannot be pushed away gets drained where it is at the petrol pump. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank at home around Landport On the dash, a reminder had been lit for days. Picked up a bottle, poured it in outside the house, binned the empty — and at that point looked at the cap again, after the fact. It occurs on driveways just off Horsfield Road as regularly as anywhere. What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. On the bottom of that tank sits where AdBlue stays, because it won't blend with diesel — and a night passing makes no difference. What to do: leave your keys inside the house so no one moves your car in the morning. Then ring. Your driveway is where it is drained, whether around Landport or Wallands Park. The pumps are quiet enough to use outside a house at night. ## Landport: drove off with AdBlue in a diesel? Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a lit dashboard arrived a mile or two beyond the top-up. Anywhere along Eridge Green or heading towards Brighton and Hove — under 10 miles away. What it means: your fuel system has pulled the AdBlue in. Past the filter, along the pipework, and — the further the mileage — deeper into the injection pump and every injector. It travels further with each extra mile covered and every restart. What to do: pull over where it is safe and switch off. Services further on are too far: from the M23, under 25 miles out of Landport, take the next junction. Do not restart the vehicle to see if it has cleared; it will not have. Tell us know the distance covered when you call. ## A hire or company car with AdBlue in the wrong tank? You have had the vehicle barely a week. The AdBlue filler is right next to the diesel filler, which you did not know, since your own vehicle either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are in East Sussex, every driver could slip up. Put simply: one extra stage on top of the situations above, which turn on if it's run. The owner often needs to sign off any work, under plenty of rental and company contracts. Sorting it before the van arrives is quicker, and so ring the rental company or your fleet manager, and then us. Keep it off while the reply arrives, even if you're waiting outside Lewes or close to Landport Community Hub. ## Landport: unsure if it was AdBlue in the diesel tank? Now and then, "I think so" is all you can honestly say. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there's a faint smell of ammonia about the filler, and you can't remember which cap you took off. Maybe at a friend's driveway in Offham, or in a rush by Wallands Community Primary and Nursery School at the school run. Put simply: a spill round your filler does your engine no harm. Once it's inside your diesel tank, though, it does. Firing up the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in that tank it would draw it in. Take it that it went in, and don't turn your engine. Phone and give the details: we would rather find a tank free of AdBlue than empty one once your motor has been run. ## What each AdBlue drain around Landport has in common Every situation has the same opening to the work. Three things come once our technicians arrive — on a filling station, a driveway, a street beside Meridian Marker or the car park outside The Tally Ho: the liquid, the amount, and whether the motor has run. Those replies decide the work, and you hear the quote on the phone, before anybody sets off. Then the tank is cleared and the fuel system cleaned thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it does not rinse out on its own. Then is the fuel filter — cleaned, or swapped when necessary — then clean diesel, and a test of the vehicle. Where your motor hasn't been started, allow roughly half an hour on site, in most cases. The final step is firing it up. Our technicians confirm it runs correctly on clean diesel before leaving. Lasting damage is very uncommon when it's caught soon, and the entire job is done where your car is. Nothing is taken upfront, settlement happens on the day, and you get what your insurer wants: an engineer report plus a VAT invoice. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, and so check yours as we head over. ## About Landport, briefly Landport is a suburban area in East Sussex, situated on the banks of the River Ouse at a low elevation of around 9 metres. Landport lies within the wider Brighton and Hove urban area, approximately 7 miles from the city centre, and is near other localities such as Wallands Park and South Malling. Landport has a population of around 3872 residents, predominantly living in semi-detached housing. Landport is also relatively close to London, at a distance of about 44 miles to the northwest. ## Landport and East Sussex: AdBlue drains across the area St Annes and South Malling get the same teams as Landport, a residential suburb, plus further places over BN postcodes. Giving us a BN7 2 postcode pins you quickest of all. Whether your car is on a lay-by on the way to Eridge Green or in a car park in the middle of Landport, it does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it is. If you're somewhere hard to describe, close to St Mary's Church or close to a boundary, ring and ask instead of guessing. ## Your scenario, summed up Motor not started: phone, and leave it switched off. Run by now? Stop, turn off, ring. Petrol in Diesel takes over the remainder whatever case, across Landport and East Sussex, on 0333 366 0103.