--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Nettleham: What Now canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/nettleham-lincolnshire/ location: Nettleham county: Lincolnshire latitude: 53.265850 longitude: -0.488860 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-27 --- # Nettleham: AdBlue in the Diesel Tank? Find Your Situation What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank comes down to one thing more than any other: if the engine has been run since it was put in. Not started so far? Then leave it like that, wherever your vehicle is — Nettleham or Riseholme. Usually this means emptying and properly rinsing it on the spot around Nettleham — so leave your ignition and engine off and ring 0333 366 0103. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. A larger job, then, but the identical opening move. Compare your case to a situation from the ones below, wherever around Lincolnshire you are. ## At the pump in Nettleham: AdBlue in a diesel The cap you unscrewed was the wrong one — and you just notice it while you are stood at the petrol pump, bottle or the nozzle in your hand. It might be the Lincoln Kiln Dried Logs, or perhaps the JET, or a different forecourt around Nettleham. Put simply: no better spot to be to discover it. No pump has pulled it through, and so the AdBlue stays only inside your tank. Do this: stay out of the driver's seat, however much the pump wants freeing. A few things: a shove into a space with the staff assisting, the receipt kept, and a call to us from where you stand. Emptying it right at the petrol pump is possible if it cannot be moved, since the equipment is explosion-proof. ## At home around Nettleham with AdBlue in the diesel tank The warning light had been on for days. You bought a bottle, poured it in on the drive, and only when you put the empty bottle in the recycling did you look a second time at the cap. Just off Chapel Lane is not different from anywhere. The upshot: zero miles since makes this almost equal to spotting it at the pump. Being reluctant to blend, AdBlue settles to the base inside your tank and waits. One night standing alters nothing. Next: stop any early drive by keeping the keys in the house, then phone us. Out in North Greetwell or right here around Nettleham, the draining is done on your driveway. Night-time empties beside a house are no problem: the pumps are low-noise. ## Drove off with AdBlue in a diesel around Nettleham? Lumpy running, smoke, falling power or a lit dashboard arrived a short way after the fill. The Green, say, or the way to Lincoln — a run of under 5 miles. The upshot: your system has drawn AdBlue in already. It's been through your filter and the lines and, the further you went, into the high-pressure pump and your injectors. Each mile and each restart takes it further. Next: find a safe place, stop, then switch your engine off. On the M180, under 25 miles from Nettleham, that means the next junction, not the services further on. Restarting it to test achieves nothing — AdBlue never clears itself. Tell us know the distance covered when you call. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company cars You've only had this car for days. The AdBlue filler sits right beside the diesel filler, which you did not know, because your own motor either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere else. Anywhere you are in Lincolnshire, every driver can slip up. Meaning? Whichever case above counts here — run or unrun — plus one extra stage. Plenty of hire and company contracts want the owner to approve work on the vehicle. What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That is quicker settled before our technicians get there than after. If you are stuck in the car park outside Lincoln Central, or by Nettleham Community Hub, while you wait for an answer, leave the car off. ## Nettleham: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank? "I think so" is sometimes as honest answer there is. A slight ammonia-like whiff lingers near your filler, the bottle feels too light, and which cap came off is hard to recall. The gates of The Nettleham Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive out in Scothern. The point: your motor isn't hurt by some AdBlue splashed on the outside. AdBlue inside the diesel tank does. If there is AdBlue in the tank, firing up the vehicle would suck it in, and it wouldn't tell you which either. Your move: act as though it got in, and never start your engine. Describe what you noticed on the phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one drained. ## Nettleham: what each AdBlue drain has in common No matter the case, a single opening is used. Our engineers come to your car, whether it's at a forecourt, a driveway, the car park at Plough or a side street close to Nettleham Library, and ask three things: what was put in, roughly how much, and whether the motor has been run. The price comes on the call, before a van leaves, and those replies shape the job. Then the tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly, which matters more with AdBlue than with petrol: AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't rinse out on its own. Finally are your filter, flushed or replaced as needed; fresh diesel; and a test of the car. Where your motor has not been started, allow roughly half an hour on site, in most jobs. Last, our engineers start the engine. With clean diesel in, it runs while our engineers make sure it is running properly, and then we leave. The whole job is done where the vehicle is, and if it is spotted soon, lasting damage is very rare. Paying comes on the day, never in advance. For the insurer, you get a VAT invoice and a written report from the engineer. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it is worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Nettleham, for a moment Nettleham is a village situated on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, with a low elevation of around 27 metres. Nettleham lies close to the city of Lincoln, approximately 3 miles to the northwest, and is surrounded by nearby places such as North Greetwell and Sudbrooke. Nettleham has a population of around 1785 people and predominantly features detached housing. Nettleham is located in the East Midlands region, about 122 miles north of London. ## AdBlue drains across Lincolnshire, Nettleham included Over LN postcodes, the vans covering Nettleham — a village — work surrounding towns as well, Sudbrooke and Grange de Lings among them. Telling us a LN2 2 postcode pins you fastest of all. Centre of Nettleham or a lay-by towards Vicar’s Wood: wherever it is, your car never needs to move an inch for the drain. Our technicians drain the car where it stands. Ring and ask rather than guess when you are by All Saints, near a boundary, or anywhere awkward to pin down. ## In one line: your scenario If it has not run, phone then keep it that way. Already run: stop, switch off then call. Either way, Petrol in Diesel takes it from there in Nettleham and anywhere across Lincolnshire on 0333 366 0103.