--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Spoonley canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/spoonley-shropshire/ location: Spoonley county: Shropshire latitude: 52.920350 longitude: -2.507920 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-21 --- # Preventing AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Spoonley: Why It Happens Leave your engine and ignition off then ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait if AdBlue is already in your diesel tank. A drain and a thorough flush, done just where the vehicle stands in Spoonley, is usually what it takes when found before the engine runs. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it doesn't. ## Why does AdBlue in a diesel motor need its own filler? Diesel goes to your motor — but plenty of current diesels seen about Spoonley and Little Drayton carry another fluid too. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it is sent to the exhaust, and there a spray treats the gas. There is a filler for each tank. Other vehicles put the AdBlue filler in the boot or under the bonnet; a lot more have both side by side behind one flap. Diesel goes in on each filling station call-out, again and again. The AdBlue side is filled far less often, normally from a bottle, and normally by somebody who has to stop and think where it goes. The error lives in that gap. ## AdBlue in the diesel tank around Spoonley: how it takes place Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them. First, the warning. Low AdBlue brings a message from your car, and letting it run dry means limp mode — so a rushed top-up, maybe before work off Duckow Close, or outside The Gingerbread Man on the way home after work. The old car's cap is where the hand reaches — but a hire car, a new car or a company car puts the fillers somewhere else. That is the second thing: a new motor. A spouted bottle meets no resistance at a diesel filler any more than at an AdBlue one. So the pour, once started, keeps on. Whether it occurs in Longslow or the middle of Spoonley, it's the same few seconds. ## Telling the AdBlue filler from the diesel filler A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a drive in Brownhills or a forecourt around Spoonley. - Check the cap instead of going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel ones usually are not. - Look at the size: the smaller filler neck is, on plenty of motors, the AdBlue one. - Check inside your fuel flap: many vehicles carry a label there showing which fuel goes where. - The handbook. If the filler isn't by your diesel cap, it's in your boot or under the bonnet, and the handbook says which. - Picking up a hire or company car, say at the car park at Whitchurch (Shropshire)? Check with the person who drove the car last before leaving, rather than when the light comes on. ## AdBlue top-ups that never reach the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever in Shropshire that is. - Not in a rush on the side of Galloway Drive, not on a slope, not with the motor running: park then switch off first. - Find the AdBlue filler, read the cap, and say the name "AdBlue" aloud while you unscrew it. It sounds silly. It works. - Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check your diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Finish once your tank fills or the bottle runs dry; before that, tip slowly using the own spout. - Shut the cap, then check again — confirm the diesel cap remained closed throughout. Only then, start the car. Discover at the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That's where you stop. Step five is out. ## Already put AdBlue in the diesel tank in Spoonley? Brief list, then. First: your motor stays off. Do not switch the ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of the tank, where your fuel is pulled from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it. On a forecourt — Morrisons, Shell or another — the attendants will normally help roll the vehicle away, when you ask. Your own driveway in Spoonley is where it should stay. If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe and switch off. Leave the M6 — under 10 miles out of Spoonley — at the next junction. A short hop across Spoonley is a smaller job than a run towards Stoke-on-Trent, under 25 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went. ## What occurs when we get there around Spoonley We come to your car wherever it has stopped, whether that is outside Market Drayton Junior School, close to Beacon Community Centre or on your own driveway. Those answers settle this work and the quote, so our engineers ask what got in, about how much, and if it's run. The quote comes over the phone, before any van leaves. Then your tank is cleared and the system flushed thoroughly. Unlike petrol, AdBlue forms crystals and attacks certain fuel-system metals, and neither washes away unaided. Hence it matters more. Once the filter is flushed — or renewed, if required — clean diesel goes in, and then the car is tested. Before leaving, our engineers start it and make sure that it's running properly. Most jobs are finished in roughly half an hour after we arrive, provided your motor has not run — and the pumps our engineers use are safe on a live forecourt and quiet after dark beside a house. Your insurer usually wants an engineer's report and the VAT invoice, and you get both at the end. Payment is on the day, with no deposit. While we travel, have a look at your insurance documents; many carry cover for misfuelling. ## About Spoonley, briefly Spoonley is a small hamlet in Shropshire, situated inland at an elevation of 83 metres, with detached housing being the predominant type of accommodation. Spoonley lies near the villages of Longslow and Greenfields, and is close to Styche Hall, in a rural area of the West Midlands. Spoonley is approximately 15.6 miles from Stoke-on-Trent and 140.3 miles from London. Spoonley has a population of around 528 people, living in a quiet, rural setting. ## AdBlue drains around Spoonley and across Shropshire Spoonley is a rural hamlet, and our teams that cover it also work the towns around it, Styche Hall and Greenfields among them, across the TF postcode area. Fastest of all: quote a TF9 3 postcode to the van. Moving your car isn't necessary. A drive, a lay-by on the way to The Rookery, a side street near Market Drayton Library: our engineers drain the vehicle where it stands. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to describe like the back of Indoor market, ring and ask rather than guessing. ## The short version for Spoonley people Pour no AdBlue until you've read the cap. Still AdBlue in the diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel will empty it wherever it is, anywhere in Shropshire: keep the vehicle off then phone 0333 366 0103.