--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Pinkie Braes: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/pinkie-braes-east-lothian/ location: Pinkie Braes county: East Lothian latitude: 55.942510 longitude: -3.020770 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-01 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pinkie Braes: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It Stop reading for a moment if your diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then call 0333 366 0103. Caught before the engine runs, it's generally a drain and a thorough flush, done where the vehicle is in Pinkie Braes. Here in advance? In that case what follows covers how it happens and how to stop it happening at all. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Diesel feeds your engine — yet plenty of newer diesels seen around Pinkie Braes and Pinkie hold a second liquid too. Your exhaust, not the engine, is where AdBlue goes: sprayed into the gas to clean it, from its own tank. There is a filler on each tank. On a lot of vehicles the two sit side by side under the same flap; on others the AdBlue filler is in your boot or under the bonnet. Topping up your diesel side at the pump goes on all the time. Seldom filled, AdBlue usually goes in out of a bottle, tipped by someone who has to stop and think what filler to use. The mistake grows in the gap between them. ## How AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place in Pinkie Braes Seldom is it carelessness: normally three things coincide. The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, your vehicle goes into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off Macbeth Moir Road before work, or in the car park at Levenhall Arms on the way home. The old car's filler is where your hand goes — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is a second thing: a strange vehicle. And the bottle fits. A bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as easily as an AdBlue one, and so nothing stops the tip once it has started. Levenhall or the heart of Pinkie Braes: it is the same few seconds in both. ## The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart A couple of seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Lewisvale or a forecourt in Pinkie Braes. - Colour and lettering: an AdBlue cap is often blue, or says "AdBlue", where a diesel cap normally doesn't. Go by the cap, not where it sits. - Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on many vehicles, the AdBlue one. - Open the flap and look for a label — many motors mark which belongs in which filler right there. - Cannot find it next to your diesel filler? Then check beneath the bonnet or inside your boot — the handbook says which. - Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Wallyford? Check with the person who drove the vehicle last before you set off, rather than once the light comes on. ## Keeping AdBlue out of the diesel tank when you top up On the day the warning appears — wherever you are around East Lothian — a routine to use. - Pull in on level, motor off, with time to spare — not rushing on the side of Delta Road. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds daft and it does the trick. - Leave your diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Gently does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle is empty. - Only after that, start the car: close the cap, check again, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Find at step two or three that it has already gone into the diesel side? Then stop right there. Do not go on to step five. ## Put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Pinkie Braes already? The short order of things, beginning with no starting the motor. Keep your ignition off too, because on many diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue does not mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of your tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so don't top up with diesel to dilute it. If you're at a forecourt, whether it is the Tesco or the Shell, ask the attendants to help push the car clear of the pump. At home in Pinkie Braes? Then the car stays where it is. If your engine has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Pinkie Braes sits under 15 miles from the M8; there, use the first junction. Tell us about how far it went: a run towards Edinburgh, under 10 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Pinkie Braes. ## What happens when we arrive in Pinkie Braes The van comes to your car wherever it stopped — your own drive, beside Levenhall Golf Ball, or by the local primary school. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and whether it's run, since those answers settle the work and our quote. That quote comes over the phone, ahead of any van leaving. Emptying that tank comes next, then a thorough flush of the fuel system. More than with petrol, it counts with AdBlue: the crystals form, certain metals corrode, and none of it washes away on its own, no matter how long it is left. The filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and the car is tested. After that we fire it up and make sure it runs correctly before we leave. Most jobs are done in roughly half an hour once our engineers get there, provided your engine hasn't run — and the pumps our technicians use are safe on a live forecourt yet quiet after dark outside a house. No money in advance; you settle up that day. At the end, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover comes with plenty of policies. ## About Pinkie Braes and where it is Pinkie Braes is a coastal suburban area in East Lothian, situated near the city of Edinburgh and close to the communities of Levenhall, Westpans, and Wallyford. Pinkie Braes has a relatively low elevation of 21 metres and is characterized by terraced housing. Pinkie Braes is located approximately 6.6 miles from Edinburgh, making it a commuter-friendly location. ## Pinkie Braes and East Lothian: AdBlue drains across the area Westpans and Wallyford are among the towns near Pinkie Braes, a residential suburb, that the same vans cover, over EH postcodes. A postcode starting EH21 8 gets the van to you fastest. The vehicle doesn't need to move. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Pinkie Braes Park, a side street close to Wallyford Livingroom Church: our technicians drain it where it is. If you are near a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Wallyford Mining Memorial Stone, ring and ask rather than assuming. ## For Pinkie Braes drivers, the short version Read the cap before you pour. AdBlue in the diesel tank after all? Leave it switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across East Lothian.