--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Pound Corner? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/pound-corner-norfolk/ location: Pound Corner county: Norfolk latitude: 52.742760 longitude: 1.254960 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-04 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pound Corner: How It Happens and How to Prevent It Stop reading a minute when the diesel tank already has AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. A drain plus a thorough flush, done right where your car sits in Pound Corner, is usually all it takes if caught before your motor runs. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank Diesel feeds the motor — yet plenty of current diesels seen about Pound Corner and Stratton Strawless hold a second liquid too. Your exhaust, not your engine, is where AdBlue ends up: dosed into the fumes to fresh them, from its own tank. Each tank comes with a filler of its own. Under one flap, next to each other: that is the arrangement on many vehicles. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the petrol pump, your diesel side is topped up constantly. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, usually from a bottle, and usually by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in the gap that the slip happens. ## How does AdBlue in the diesel tank occur around Pound Corner? Carelessness seldom causes it. What does is three things coming up at once. On a driveway off The Street before work, or in the car park outside The Fox Steakhouse on the way home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. Why the rush? As AdBlue runs low the car warns you, and once it is gone, limp mode kicks in. Then your car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old one. A spout-topped bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. And so the pour, once begun, carries on. The same few seconds settle it, in the middle of Pound Corner or out in Hevingham. ## The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you pour anything, on a driveway in New Hainford or a forecourt around Pound Corner. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is commonly blue, or marked "AdBlue". Your diesel cap usually isn't. Read it rather than going by position. - The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - Open the filler flap and check for a label — plenty of cars mark what goes in each filler right there. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that's where your filler sits if it's not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - Ask the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — if you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park outside Worstead. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching your diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Norfolk that is. - Park then switch off. Not on a slope, not with your engine running, and not in a rush on the side of Halls Corner. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it works. - The two behind one flap? So confirm the lid on the diesel side is still shut ahead of raising the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty. - Only after that, start the vehicle: close the cap, check again, and make sure the diesel cap was never opened. If at step two or three you find you have already poured into your diesel side, stop there. Stage five is out. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Pound Corner? Do not start your engine: that is how the short order of things begins. On plenty of diesels the ignition alone runs the fuel pump, and so do not switch the car on. Topping up with diesel will not thin it: instead, AdBlue sinks to the base of that tank, right where fuel is taken from. Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle clear of the petrol pump if you're at a forecourt — the Gulf, the BP or anywhere else. Your own driveway in Pound Corner is where it stays. Where your engine has been run already, stop somewhere safe then turn the car off. On the M11, over 50 miles from Pound Corner, that means the next exit. Mileage counts — a quick hop across Pound Corner makes a smaller job than driving under 10 miles towards Norwich — so tell us roughly how far it went. ## Our arrival around Pound Corner, and what occurs next Wherever the car came to rest, be it outside Hevingham Primary School, beside Hevingham Village Sign or on your own drive, the van travels to it. We ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run, since the replies settle this work and the price. You get that price by phone, before anyone heads out. The fuel system is then cleaned thoroughly, once that tank is drained. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush matters more here than with petrol. After the fuel filter is flushed — or replaced, if required — clean diesel is added, and then your car is tested. We don't leave until it has been started and is running smoothly. Unrun cars usually need a half-hour visit from arrival. The kit is fine on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. Before we get there, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling. ## About Pound Corner, briefly Pound Corner is a locality in Norfolk, situated inland at an elevation of 19 metres, approximately 8 miles west of Norwich. Pound Corner is characterized by its predominantly detached housing stock, reflecting the area's residential nature. Pound Corner is close to nearby places such as Hevingham and Westgate Street, and is part of the wider Norwich urban area. ## Pound Corner and Norfolk: AdBlue drains across the area Being a small village, Pound Corner shares its vans nearby places — Westgate Street, The Heath — right through NR postcodes and the surrounding area beyond. Give a postcode that starts NR10 5, and our van gets there quickest. The car does not need to move. A drive, a lay-by on the way to Round Clump, a side street close to Hevingham Village Hall: our engineers drain it where it sits. Tricky to explain, like the back of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Botolph? By a border? Asking is better than assuming, and so phone. ## For Pound Corner drivers, the short version Always, the cap; then, the tip. Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, anywhere across Norfolk, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank anyway — and so leave the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.