--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Pulham Market: Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/pulham-market-norfolk/ location: Pulham Market county: Norfolk latitude: 52.429520 longitude: 1.230230 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-03 --- # Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Pulham Market Stop reading a minute when the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, engine off, then ring 0333 366 0103. In Pulham Market, finding it before the engine runs usually leaves a drain and a full flush on the spot. Reading in advance? In that case what follows explains how it comes about and what to stop it happening at all. ## AdBlue in a diesel car: two tanks, two fillers No single fluid but two: that is what plenty of newer diesels around Pulham Market and Tivetshall St Mary carry, with diesel feeding your motor. Its own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, where a spray treats the fumes. Each tank has its own filler. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in your boot or under the bonnet; a lot of others have both together under one flap. Diesel gets filled at every forecourt call-out, again and again. Much less commonly, the AdBlue side is topped up — normally from a bottle, by a person working out where it goes. The mistake grows in that gap between them. ## Pulham Market: how AdBlue in the diesel tank happens Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them. The warning comes first. As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it runs out completely, the vehicle drops into limp mode. So the top-up is done in a hurry: on a driveway off The Green before work, or in the car park outside The Falcon PH on the way home. Then the car is strange. A hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers where your last one did not, and the hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one. No part stops the tip once it has started, because a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Pulham Market or out in Pulham St Mary. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Whether a Pulham Market forecourt or a driveway over in Tivetshall St Margaret, take a couple of seconds over these before any is poured in. - Position misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or bear the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't. - Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on many motors, the AdBlue one. - Open the filler flap and check for a label — many vehicles mark what goes in each filler just there. - Cannot find it beside your diesel filler? In that case check beneath the bonnet or in your boot — the handbook will say which. - The person who drove it last. On a hire or company car picked up from somewhere like the car park outside Diss, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach your diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Norfolk that is. - Not in a rush on the side of Station Road, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park and switch off first. - Daft as it sounds, speaking "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew the cap does the trick — once you have found your filler and read the cap. - The diesel cap stays on. When the two share a flap, confirm it's shut before lifting the bottle. - Tip slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it's full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap and check once more. Make sure the diesel cap was never opened. Only then start your car. Find at the second or third stage that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Don't go on to step five. ## Pulham Market: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank? Do not start the motor: that is how the short order of things starts. Keep the ignition off too, since on many diesels it alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with extra diesel fails, because AdBlue settles to the base instead of blending — and that is where your fuel is pulled from. The attendants at Shell, another forecourt nearby or any forecourt will normally lend a hand to push your car clear when asked. If you are on your own drive around Pulham Market, leave it where it stands. Already started? Pull over once it is sensible, then turn off. On the M11, over 50 miles from Pulham Market, that means the next exit. Distance counts — a quick hop across Pulham Market makes a smaller job than heading under 15 miles to Norwich — so say about how far it went. ## What happens when our engineers turn up in Pulham Market Our engineers come to the vehicle wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Pulham Church of England Primary Academy, close to Pulham Market Village Sign or on your own driveway. Those answers settle this work and the price, so we ask what got in, roughly how much, and whether it's run. On the phone call itself, you are told our price — ahead of anything else. Draining that tank comes next, followed by a thorough flush of the fuel system. AdBlue crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own — which is why the flush counts more here than with petrol. Your filter is cleaned, or replaced where it needs to be; clean diesel goes in; and your car is tested. Your engine is started next and tested to be sure it runs correctly, all before our technicians head off. With pumps fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night, most jobs where your motor hasn't run take roughly half an hour after we are there. Your insurer will ask for an engineer's report and your VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. Plenty of insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Pulham Market itself Pulham Market is a small village in south Norfolk, situated near the River Waveney at an elevation of around 51 metres. Pulham Market lies within a short distance of several nearby settlements, including Pulham St Mary, Colegate End, and Bush Green. Pulham Market has a population of approximately 540 residents, with semi-detached housing being the predominant type in the village. Pulham Market is located about 14 miles from Norwich and 86 miles from London. ## AdBlue drains around Pulham Market, and Norfolk beyond Colegate End and Bush Green are among the places around Pulham Market, a village, that the same vans cover, throughout IP postcodes. Quote a postcode beginning IP21 4, and our van arrives quickest. Your car remains where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Pulham Memorial Hall, a lay-by on the way to The Green, a driveway. Guessing doesn't help at the back of Saint Mary Magdalene, close to a border, or anywhere hard to describe; ring and check. ## The short version for Pulham Market drivers First, the cap; after that, the tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Leave it switched off then ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it where it stands, across Norfolk.