--- title: Radmore Wood: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank, Explained canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/radmore-wood-staffordshire/ location: Radmore Wood county: Staffordshire latitude: 52.822960 longitude: -1.864340 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-24 --- # Why It Occurs and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Radmore Wood If AdBlue is already in your diesel tank, stop reading for a moment: leave your motor and the ignition off and phone 0333 366 0103. Normally, if your motor hasn't turned, it's emptied and thoroughly cleaned where your car is in Radmore Wood. The rest of this page explains why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't — handy if you are reading before it has happened. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel vehicle need its own filler? Diesel feeds your motor — yet many newer diesels seen about Radmore Wood and Dunstal carry another liquid too. AdBlue goes to the exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to clean it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Each tank has its own filler. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on many motors. On others, AdBlue's filler sits under the bonnet or in the boot instead. Diesel goes in on each forecourt call-out, week in, week out. Someone who has to stop and work out where it goes normally fills the AdBlue side, from a bottle, and much less commonly. The mistake lives in that gap. ## Radmore Wood: how AdBlue in your diesel tank takes place It is hardly ever carelessness. Three things tend to line up. Hurry follows from the warning. Your car warns you as AdBlue runs low, and a dry tank puts it into limp mode — so the top-up happens in a rush, before work on a driveway off Radmore Lane, or heading home in the car park outside Coach and Horses. Then, the hand goes for the cap it knew on the old motor — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers somewhere your last one did not. A spouted bottle finds no resistance at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, carries on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of Radmore Wood or out in Abbots Bromley. ## The AdBlue filler and your diesel filler: telling them apart Check these first, at a forecourt in Radmore Wood or a drive over in Heatley. Seconds, that's all. - Where it sits can mislead; the cap doesn't. AdBlue ones are often blue or carry the name "AdBlue" — diesel ones usually do not. - On plenty of vehicles, size gives it away: AdBlue has the smaller filler neck. - Open the filler flap and look for a label — many motors show which belongs in which filler just there. - The handbook shows where it is when your filler is not next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet. - The person who drove the vehicle last. On a hire or company car collected from somewhere like the car park outside Rugeley Trent Valley, ask before you leave, not when the light comes on. ## How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Staffordshire that is. - Pull in on level, motor off, with time in hand — not rushing on the side of Woodmill Lane. - Locate the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and speak the word "AdBlue" out loud while you unscrew it. It seems silly. It does the trick. - Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Pour slowly, using the bottle's own spout. Stop when it is full or when the bottle is empty. - Close the cap, and check once more — confirm the diesel cap remained closed the whole time. After that, start your car. If at stage two or three you find you have already poured into the diesel side, stop there. Don't carry on to stage five. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Radmore Wood? Do not start your motor: that is where the short order of things starts. Leave your ignition off as well, since on many diesels it alone starts the pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to thin it. Ask the attendants to help roll the vehicle away from the petrol pump if you are on a forecourt — the the nearest petrol station, the another forecourt nearby or anywhere else. If you are on your own driveway in Radmore Wood, leave it where it is. Where the engine has run by now, pull over safely and switch it off. On the M6, under 15 miles from Radmore Wood, that means the next junction. Mileage counts — a short hop across Radmore Wood makes a smaller job than heading under 10 miles towards Lichfield — so tell us roughly how far it went. ## When we get there around Radmore Wood, what occurs? Wherever your car has stopped, whether by The Richard Clarke First School, near Abbots Bromley Village Hall or on your own drive, our van travels to it. Our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run, since the answers determine the work and the quote. On the phone call itself, you are told our quote — ahead of anything else. Your system is then flushed thoroughly, once the tank is drained. Unlike petrol, AdBlue leaves crystals and attacks some fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. Hence it counts more. The filter flushed or, if it must be, replaced; clean diesel in; and then a check of the car. After that our engineers start it and make sure it runs smoothly before we go. With pumps fine on a working forecourt and quiet enough for use outside a house at night, most jobs in which the engine hasn't run take roughly half an hour after our technicians arrive. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer report and a VAT invoice. It's worth looking at your policy as the van travels to you: misfuelling cover is included with plenty of policies. ## About Radmore Wood and where it is Radmore Wood is a small hamlet situated on the riverside in Staffordshire, with a mix of detached housing and rural landscapes. Radmore Wood sits at an elevation of 114 metres, close to the nearby settlements of Abbots Bromley and Bromley Wood. Radmore Wood is located near the city of Lichfield, which is approximately 9.8 miles away. Radmore Wood has a population of around 538 residents, living in a predominantly rural setting. ## AdBlue drains across Staffordshire, Radmore Wood included Over WS postcodes, the vans that cover Radmore Wood — a rural hamlet — work the surrounding spots too, Mill Green and Bromley Wood included. A postcode starting WS15 3 gets our van to you fastest. The car stays where it is. Wherever it sits — beside Church of the Sacred Heart, on a layby heading to Fieldhouse Coppice, at home — that's where it is cleared. Awkward to explain, like the back of St Nicholas? By a border? Asking beats guessing, so ring. ## The short version for Radmore Wood people First, the cap; then, the pour. Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, anywhere in Staffordshire, if AdBlue has gone in your diesel tank all the same — so leave the car off then call 0333 366 0103.