--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Lodge Park? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/lodge-park-worcestershire/ location: Lodge Park county: Worcestershire latitude: 52.298830 longitude: -1.931990 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-24 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lodge Park: How It Occurs and How to Avoid It Leave the motor and ignition off and call 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. Caught before the motor runs, it is normally a drain and a thorough flush, done where your car is in Lodge Park. Here in advance? Then the rest explains why it happens and what to prevent it happening at all. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler? Plenty of newer diesels around Southcrest, like those in Lodge Park, carry on two liquids; your engine takes just your diesel. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Each tank has one filler of its own. On a lot of cars the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. A driver who has to stop and work out where it goes usually fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and far less frequently. The mistake grows in that gap between the two. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank in Lodge Park: how it happens Rarely is it carelessness: normally three things line up. On a driveway off Greenlands Drive before work, or in the car park at The Rising Sun heading home: that's where the rushed top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low the vehicle warns you, and once it is empty, limp mode kicks in. Unfamiliar motors come second, as well. Rentals, new vehicles and company motors place their fillers differently, and habit goes for the cap used on the old one. And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, so nothing stops the pour after it has started. It takes a few seconds, be it out in Lakeside or bang in the heart of Lodge Park. ## The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart A couple of seconds is all these take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Redditch or a forecourt around Lodge Park. - Read the cap rather than going by position: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones normally are not. - On many vehicles, the size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck. - Open the filler flap and look for a label — plenty of motors show which goes in each filler just there. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it is not by the diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - The previous driver will know. Ask when you pick up a hire car or fleet car — from Redditch's car park, perhaps — rather than when the warning appears. ## How to top up without AdBlue in your diesel tank On the day the light appears — anywhere you are across Worcestershire — a simple routine to follow. - Switch off after you park — flat ground, motor stopped, and not rushed beside Alvechurch Highway on the verge. - Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and say the word "AdBlue" out loud while unscrewing it. It seems silly. It works. - If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle — and leave it on. - Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, then check once more — confirm your diesel cap stayed shut the whole time. After that, start the vehicle. Find at stage two or three that it's already gone into the diesel side? Then stop just there. Leave out stage five altogether. ## Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Lodge Park already? Then the order of things is short. Do not start the engine. On many diesels your ignition alone runs the fuel pump, so don't switch the car on. Topping up with diesel will not dilute it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of the tank, just where fuel is drawn from. Ask the attendants to help push the vehicle clear of the pump if you are on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the Tesco or somewhere else. If you are on your own drive around Lodge Park, leave the car where it sits. Where the engine has been run by now, stop somewhere safe then switch the vehicle off. On the M42, under 5 miles from Lodge Park, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Birmingham, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Lodge Park. ## Our arrival in Lodge Park, and what happens next Our technicians come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that's outside Oak Hill First School, close to Redditch New Mosque or on your own driveway. Both the work and the price rest on three replies — what liquid, which amount, and whether it's run — so our technicians ask. That quote is given over the phone, ahead of any van leaving. Then the tank is emptied and the system flushed thoroughly. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why that matters more here than with petrol. Testing comes at the end: before that, fresh diesel is added, and your filter is cleaned or replaced as needed. Before we go, our engineers fire it up and check that it is running smoothly. Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour job after arrival. The equipment is fine on a busy forecourt, and hushed enough for a driveway after dark. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. It's worth looking at your insurance while we travel to you: misfuelling cover comes with many policies. ## About Lodge Park itself Lodge Park is a suburban area in the West Midlands region of England, situated approximately 12.5 miles southwest of Birmingham. Lodge Park sits inland at an elevation of around 108 metres, near the suburbs of Lakeside and St Georges. Lodge Park is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing stock, which reflects the area's history of residential development. Lodge Park is also relatively close to the smaller settlement of Smallwood, and is about 94.4 miles northwest of London. ## AdBlue drains across Worcestershire, Lodge Park included As a residential suburb, Lodge Park has the same vans as nearby areas — St Georges, Smallwood — all the way through B postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. The van gets to you fastest with a postcode starting B98 7. The car stays put. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to Studley Road Social Club, a lay-by on the way to Southcrest Woods, a driveway. Guessing won't help behind Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness, close to a boundary, or anywhere awkward to describe; ring and ask. ## For Lodge Park people, the short version Pour no AdBlue till you have read the cap. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle switched off and phone 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it where it stands, across Worcestershire.