--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Lanesfield: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/lanesfield-west-midlands/ location: Lanesfield county: West Midlands latitude: 52.557520 longitude: -2.108100 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-26 --- # Why It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lanesfield Keep the engine and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — the rest can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Usually, if your motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and fully purged where the car sits in Lanesfield. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Diesel goes to your engine — but many newer diesels seen around Lanesfield and Woodcross hold a second liquid as well. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh it, from a separate tank. Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that's the arrangement on a lot of motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. Topping up your diesel side at the petrol pump happens all the time. Far less frequently, the AdBlue side is filled — mostly from a bottle, by a person thinking about where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake happens. ## How AdBlue in your diesel tank happens around Lanesfield Carelessness seldom explains it. What does is three things lining up together. On a drive off Birmingham New Road before work, or in the car park outside Three Crowns heading home: that's where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue gets low the vehicle tells you, and if it's gone, limp mode follows. Then your car is new. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one. Nothing stops the pour after it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Lanesfield or out in Ettingshall. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler Look at these before pouring, at a forecourt in Lanesfield or a drive out in Spring Vale. Seconds, no more. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it instead of going by position. - Plenty of cars fit AdBlue the smaller filler of the two. - A label inside your fuel flap frequently shows which fuel goes where, on many vehicles. Check for it. - The handbook shows where it lives when the filler is not next to the diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet. - The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Coseley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across West Midlands that is. - Pull in somewhere level, engine off, with time in hand — never rushing on the side of Laburnum Road. - Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew the cap, after you find the AdBlue filler and reading it. Silly, perhaps, but it works. - Both behind one flap? So make sure the cap on your diesel filler stays shut before lifting the bottle. - Slowly is best, through the bottle's own spout, till it is full or the bottle is empty. - Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Never go on to stage five. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around Lanesfield already? Then the order of things is short. Don't start the motor. Leave your ignition off as well, since on plenty of diesels switching it on alone runs your pump. Diluting it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of blending — and that's where the fuel is drawn from. The attendants at BP, Texaco or any forecourt will usually help to push your car clear if asked. Your own driveway around Lanesfield is the place it stays. If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. The next exit is the place to leave when you are on the M6, under 5 miles from Lanesfield. A short hop across Lanesfield is a smaller job than a run towards Wolverhampton, under 3 miles away, so tell us about how far it went. ## What happens when our engineers arrive around Lanesfield By Lanesfield Primary School, near Guru Ka Niwas Gurdwara or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our engineers come to it. Those replies decide this work and our price, and so we ask what went in, about how much, and if it has run. On the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of dispatch. Next: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it counts here: the crystals build up, some metals corrode, and nothing clears away on its own, however long it sits. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. Your engine is fired up next and checked to make sure it runs properly, all before our engineers go. Most jobs are done in about half an hour after we get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps we use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark outside a house. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Wrong-fuel cover is included in plenty of insurance policies — and so use the wait to look at yours. ## About Lanesfield and where it is Lanesfield is a suburban area located on the outskirts of Wolverhampton, near the River Tame, with an elevation of around 159 metres. Lanesfield sits close to neighbouring areas such as Ettingshall and Parkfield, and is characterized by its predominantly semi-detached housing stock. Lanesfield is situated approximately 2.2 miles from Wolverhampton city centre, making it a convenient residential location. Lanesfield has a population of around 6315 people, according to recent estimates. ## Lanesfield and West Midlands: AdBlue drains across the area As a residential suburb, Lanesfield has the same vans as nearby areas — Parkfield, Ettingshall Park — right through WV postcodes and the wider area around them. Our van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting WV4 6. The vehicle remains where it is. The drain happens on the spot, be it a drive, a road by The Parish Church of The Most Holy Trinity Ettingshall, or a lay-by towards Black Country Millennium Forest. If you are near a boundary, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Great Bear, ring and ask rather than guessing. ## In short, for Lanesfield people Before you tip, read the cap. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the car off then phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across West Midlands.