--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Lordshill Common? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/lordshill-common-surrey/ location: Lordshill Common county: Surrey latitude: 51.181550 longitude: -0.534910 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-08 --- # How It Happens and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Lordshill Common If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and your ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. A drain and a full flush, carried out right where your car stands in Lordshill Common, is normally what it needs if caught before your motor runs. The remainder of this page explains why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't — useful if you are reading before it has happened. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler? Plenty of modern diesels in Stroud Common, as well as Lordshill Common, carry on two liquids; the engine takes only the diesel. Kept in a tank of its own, AdBlue is sprayed into your exhaust gas to clean it. Each tank has its own filler. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in the boot or under the bonnet. Diesel goes in on each filling station visit, again and again. The AdBlue side is topped up far less often, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap. ## Lordshill Common: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place Carelessness seldom explains it. Instead is three things coming up together. To start with, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a warning from your car, and letting it run out leads to limp mode — hence a hurried top-up, perhaps before work off Hullbrook Lane, or outside The Red Lion Inn on the way home after work. New-to-you cars come second, too. Rentals, new motors and company cars put their fillers in new places, and habit goes for the cap it used on the old one. A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, keeps on. It takes a few seconds, whether out in Shamley Green or bang in the heart of Lordshill Common. ## The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart A few seconds is all the checks take — so check them before you pour anything, on a drive in Grafham or a forecourt in Lordshill Common. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap usually is not. Read it rather than going by where it sits. - On many cars, size tells: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck. - The flap. Look inside the fuel flap for a label. Many vehicles say there which fuel goes where. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler is if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook says which. - The person who drove the car last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park at Chilworth, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank On the day the light comes on — anywhere you are across Surrey — a routine to use. - Not in a rush on the side of Lords Hill Common, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park and switch off properly. - Locate the AdBlue filler, check the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It seems daft. It works. - The diesel cap stays on. Where both sit under a flap, make sure it is shut before the bottle comes up. - Using the bottle's own spout, tip slowly — and stop when it is full or the bottle is empty. - Before starting the vehicle, shut the cap and look a second time that the diesel cap was never opened off. Find during the second or third step that the bottle went in the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Leave out step five altogether. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Lordshill Common already? Short list, then. First: your motor stays unstarted. Leave your ignition off too, because on plenty of diesels it alone starts your pump. Don't top up with diesel to thin it: AdBlue does not mix with diesel, it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is sucked from. The staff at Asda, Shell or another forecourt will normally lend a hand to push the car away when asked. At home in Lordshill Common? Then the car remains where it is. When your motor has run already, pull over safely then switch the vehicle off. On the M25, under 15 miles from Lordshill Common, that means the next junction. A short hop across Lordshill Common is a smaller job than a run towards Chichester, under 50 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went. ## Our arrival in Lordshill Common, and what takes place next Anywhere your car has stopped, whether outside Wonersh and Shamley Green CofE Aided Primary School, beside The Arbuthnot Hall or at home, our van comes to it. Both the work and the quote rest on three replies — what fluid, what amount, and if it's run — so we ask. During the phone call itself, you hear the quote — ahead of anything else. After that: draining, then a thorough flush of the entire system. More than with petrol, it matters with AdBlue: the crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and none of it washes out on its own, no matter how long it is left. After the fuel filter is cleaned — or replaced, where required — fresh diesel goes in, and finally your car gets tested. The motor is started next and tested to make sure it runs correctly, all before our engineers leave. Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour after our engineers arrive, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a busy forecourt and quiet at night beside a house. Your insurer will ask for the engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both once this job is done. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Lordshill Common Lordshill Common is a locality in Surrey, situated near the riverside at an elevation of 51 metres, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Lordshill Common is located near several nearby places, including Shamley Green, Birtley Green, and Norley Common, and is approximately 28.6 miles from London. Lordshill Common has a population of around 598 residents, who live in a tranquil environment surrounded by natural scenery. ## AdBlue drains round Lordshill Common, and Surrey beyond Throughout GU postcodes, our vans covering Lordshill Common — a small village — work the nearby places too, Norley Common and Birtley Green included. Fastest of all: quote a GU5 0 postcode to our van. The car does not need to shift. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to War Memorial, a lay-by on the way to Long Common, a driveway. Assuming doesn't help behind Christ Church Shamley Green, close to a border, or anywhere hard to pin down; phone and check. ## In short, for Lordshill Common motorists Always, the cap; after that, the tip. If AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank regardless, leave it off and ring 0333 366 0103. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it sits, anywhere around Surrey.