--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Palmers Flat? Next Steps canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/palmers-flat-gloucestershire/ location: Palmers Flat county: Gloucestershire latitude: 51.785360 longitude: -2.600010 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-01 --- # AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Palmers Flat: What Now? What to do about AdBlue in a diesel tank depends on one thing more than any other: whether your engine has been run since it got in. Over in Broadwell or here in Palmers Flat, an unrun engine must remain unrun. Switch nothing on, call 0333 366 0103, then count on a thorough flush after a drain, done right where your car stands around Palmers Flat. Where the engine has run, pull in safely first, then switch the vehicle off. The job is bigger, yet the first step is the same. Match your case to one of the list below, anywhere around Gloucestershire you happen to be. ## Palmers Flat forecourt: AdBlue in a diesel at the pump Just now, bottle still in hand, you realise that the cap you opened was the wrong one, right at the pump. Anywhere in Palmers Flat, then — Texaco, Central Garage, or anywhere else nearby. What it means: this is the best location to find out. Still inside that tank, with nothing pulled through: that is where the AdBlue is. Freeing the pump is no excuse to run it — and so don't get back in. Ask the staff to help you roll your car into a parking bay, keep the receipt or the bottle, and ring us from the forecourt. If it can't be moved, it can be emptied at the pump: the equipment is explosion-proof and safe on a busy forecourt. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank at home in Palmers Flat On the dash, a warning had shown all week. A bottle from the garage, tipped in at the drive — and it's only by the bin that the cap got a second look. Drives near Station Road get it as much as any other street. Meaning? Provided the vehicle has not moved since, it's second to the pump case. Diesel and AdBlue stay separate: the AdBlue settles to the base of the tank and stays there, however long it waits. Next: stop any early drive by putting the keys indoors, then phone us. Your driveway is where it gets emptied, whether around Palmers Flat or Coalway. Night-time clears outside a house are fine: the pumps are low-noise. ## Palmers Flat: set off with AdBlue in a diesel? Lumpy running, smoke, lost power or a glowing dashboard started a mile or two beyond the fill. Somewhere along Parkend Road or else heading to Gloucester — under 25 miles away. Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into the fuel system. The injection pump and every injector see it as well on a bigger run, once the fuel filter and lines have had it. Each mile and each restart takes it further. What to do: pull over where it is safe to do so and switch off. On the M50, under 15 miles from Palmers Flat, that means the next junction, not the services further on. It will not have cleared, and so there's no sense starting it again to check. About what distance did it gone? Say so as you call. ## AdBlue in the wrong tank of a hire, lease or company car It is a car you have had for a week. Unknown to you, the two fillers are side by side here — not like your own vehicle, which has no AdBlue or keeps it elsewhere. Any driver, anywhere across Gloucestershire, might make it. The point: exactly as above, split by if it ran, only with an added step. Any work on your car often requires the owner's go-ahead under rental or company terms. What to do: ring the hire firm or your fleet manager first, then us. That's quicker settled before we arrive than after. If you're stranded in the car park at Lydney, or by Perrygrove Railway, while you wait for an answer, leave the vehicle off. ## Palmers Flat: unsure whether it was AdBlue in your diesel tank? Truthfully, the best answer may be that you think so. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia about your filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. The gates of Coalway Primary School in a hurry, perhaps, or someone's drive over in Poolway. Put simply: spillage round your filler leaves the motor unharmed. If it's inside your diesel tank, though, that changes. You can't tell which by turning the ignition, and doing so will suck in any AdBlue that is in the tank. Your move: behave as if it got in, and don't start your motor. Call us and describe what you saw; we'd rather check a tank that turns out free of AdBlue than drain one that has already been run. ## Each AdBlue drain in Palmers Flat shares these stages The job opens identically, whichever your case. Our engineers come to the vehicle, whether it's on a forecourt, a drive, the car park at Old White Hart Inn or a side street near Model Railway, and ask three things: what was put in, about how much, and if the motor has run. Those replies determine the work, and you hear our price by phone, before anybody sets off. Draining that tank comes next, followed by a full flush — more vital with urea than after petrol, since crystals and corrosion won't go on their own, no matter how long you wait. Next comes the fuel filter — flushed, or swapped when necessary — followed by clean diesel, and a test of the car. The majority of unrun vehicles are a half-hour job from the moment we turn up. Firing it up comes last. Our test that it runs smoothly on new diesel comes before we head off. The whole job is done where the car is, and if it's caught early, permanent damage is very uncommon. For your insurer: the engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, no money in advance. Many insurance policies include misfuelling, so look at yours while the van travels. ## About Palmers Flat, briefly Palmers Flat is a suburban area in Gloucestershire, situated inland at an elevation of 201 metres. Palmers Flat lies near the communities of Coalway, Milkwall, and High Nash, and is approximately 16 miles from Gloucester. Palmers Flat is characterised by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Palmers Flat is also relatively distant from London, at around 107.7 miles away. ## AdBlue drains round Palmers Flat and across Gloucestershire Palmers Flat is a residential suburb, and the same teams that cover it work the places near it too, Milkwall and High Nash among them, across the GL postcode area. A postcode starting GL16 7 is the quickest way to tell us where you are. Centre of Palmers Flat or a layby towards Forest Golf Club: either way it sits, your vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for us. Draining is done on the spot. Phone and ask rather than guess when you're close to Puzzlewood, on a border, or anywhere tricky to explain. ## The one-line version Motor never started: phone, and leave it alone. Run already? Stop, switch off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the rest whichever case, across Palmers Flat and Gloucestershire, on 0333 366 0103.