--- title: Luppitt: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, What Next canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/luppitt-devon/ location: Luppitt county: Devon latitude: 50.853370 longitude: -3.181680 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-25 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Luppitt: What Now? One thing counts most once AdBlue is in a diesel tank, and that is whether your engine has been started since. Out in Dunkeswell or right around Luppitt, an unstarted engine must remain that way. Switch nothing on, phone 0333 366 0103, then expect a thorough flush plus a drain, carried out right where your vehicle stands in Luppitt. Stop the minute you safely can and turn off, if it has already run. A bigger job, then, but the identical opening step. Wherever in Devon it happened, one of the situations below matches yours. ## At the pump around Luppitt: AdBlue in a diesel The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you only notice it as you're stood at the pump, bottle or the nozzle in hand. It could be the Regent, or the BP, or another station in Luppitt. Meaning? Spotting it here is the best it can be. The AdBlue is inside that tank and nowhere else. Nothing has drawn it in. Clearing the pump is no reason to start it — so do not get back in. Ring us from the forecourt after your car is in a bay — the staff will lend a hand to roll it — then keep the bottle. If it can't be shifted, it can be cleared at the petrol pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank on a Luppitt drive? For days the dashboard had been warning you. Picked up a bottle, poured it in outside the house, binned the empty — and at that point looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. It takes place on drives just off Greenway Lane as often as anywhere. The point: zero driving since leaves this nearly as good to spotting it at the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel; it sinks to the bottom of your tank and waits there. Overnight doesn't change that. Next: keys indoors, and so no one drives the car off first thing. Then, ring. Your driveway is where it gets drained, whether around Luppitt or Beacon. Night-time empties outside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise. ## Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Luppitt? A short way beyond topping up, the engine started misbehaving: roughness, smoke, less power, warnings on the dash. Dumpdon Lane, perhaps, or the route towards Exeter — a trip of under 25 miles. The point: the system has drawn AdBlue through by now. The injection pump and each injector see it too on a bigger run, after the filter and pipework have it. Each mile and each restart takes it further. Pull in safely — that's the next step — then turn it off. On the M5, under 10 miles from Luppitt, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to test gets nothing — AdBlue never clears on its own. Phone, saying what distance the car went. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars You've only had this car for days. Your own vehicle either does without AdBlue or puts it elsewhere, so nothing told you the AdBlue inlet sits right beside the diesel. Wherever you are across Devon, any driver can slip up. The upshot: exactly as above, split by whether it ran, only with an added stage. Work on your vehicle frequently needs the owner's approval under hire or company terms. What to do: call the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians arrive than after. If you are stranded in the car park at Honiton, or by St Mary, whilst you wait for an answer, leave your car off. ## Not sure it was AdBlue in your diesel tank, Luppitt? Honestly, the only answer might be that you think it did. Lighter, that bottle; a hint of ammonia round the filler; a hazy recollection of the cap. Sound familiar? The gates of Upottery Primary School in a rush, say, or a friend's driveway out in Mackham. Meaning? Drips around the filler never touch your motor at all. Inside the diesel tank, by contrast, AdBlue damages it. You cannot tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will pull in any AdBlue that is in your tank. Take it that it was put in, and don't start your engine. Tell us what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a better result than a run one emptied. ## The common ground in every Luppitt AdBlue drain Whatever the case, one opening is used. Filling station, driveway, Luppitt Inn's car park or a road by Luppitt Village Hall — our van comes to your car, and three answers come next: what liquid, what quantity, and whether it has run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and the replies shape the work. Then the tank is emptied 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, so it does not rinse out on its own. Fresh diesel goes in once your filter has been cleaned or replaced, and your car is then tested. If the engine hasn't run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we're there. Firing it up comes last. With fresh diesel in, it runs while our technicians check it is running properly, and then we leave. Long-term damage is very rare if it's caught soon, and the entire job is done where your car is. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours while we are on the way. ## About Luppitt Luppitt is a small hamlet in inland Devon, situated at an elevation of 187 metres, approximately 17.8 miles from Exeter. Luppitt lies near other local places such as Beacon, Wick, and Highfield, and is characterized by its predominantly detached housing. Luppitt is a rural community, located about 139.8 miles west of London, in the South West region of England. ## AdBlue drains across Devon, Luppitt included As a rural hamlet, Luppitt has the same vans as the surrounding towns — Highfield, Wick — right through EX postcodes. Fastest of all: a EX14 4 postcode for your location. Central Luppitt or a layby towards Dumpdon Plantation: wherever it sits, your vehicle never needs to move an inch for us. Our engineers drain it where it stands. If you're somewhere hard to explain, close to Dunkeswell Village Hall or close to a boundary, ring and ask rather than assuming. ## The one-line version Still unrun? Leave the vehicle off then ring. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there around Luppitt and anywhere around Devon on 0333 366 0103.