--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Tardebigge? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/tardebigge-worcestershire/ location: Tardebigge county: Worcestershire latitude: 52.320100 longitude: -2.003360 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-18 --- # Why It Happens and How to Avoid It: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Tardebigge Leave your motor and ignition off and ring 0333 366 0103 first — reading can wait when AdBlue is already in the diesel tank. Normally, if the motor hasn't turned, it is drained and thoroughly flushed where the car sits in Tardebigge. If you are reading before it has happened, the remainder of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor: two tanks, two fillers Many newer diesels on the roads about Tardebigge and Foxlydiate carry two liquids, not one. Diesel goes to the motor. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own. There is a filler on every tank. Plenty of cars share a single flap for the two, while some move the AdBlue filler to the boot or under the bonnet. The diesel side is fuelled at the pump all the time. The AdBlue side is fuelled far less regularly, normally from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It is in that gap that the mistake lives. ## AdBlue in your diesel tank around Tardebigge: how it takes place It's seldom carelessness. Three things tend to line up. On a drive off Alcester Road before work, or in the car park outside The Tardebigge heading home: that is where the hurried top-up takes place. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue gets low your car tells you, and once it's empty, limp mode kicks in. Then the car is new. A hire car, a new motor or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and your hand hits for the cap it would have used on the old one. Third, the spout goes in: a diesel filler or AdBlue one, it goes in just as easily, and once the tip begins, no part halts it. It's seconds, be it out in Tutnall or right in the heart of Tardebigge. ## The AdBlue filler and the diesel filler: telling them apart A few seconds is all the checks take — so run through them before you tip anything, on a driveway in Finstall or a forecourt around Tardebigge. - The cap. The AdBlue cap is frequently blue, or marked "AdBlue". The diesel cap normally isn't. Read it rather than going by where it sits. - The size. On plenty of cars the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - Check inside your fuel flap: plenty of vehicles have a label there showing which fuel goes where. - In your boot or under the bonnet: that is where your filler sits if it is not by your diesel cap, and the handbook tells you which. - Check with the person who drove it last — before you leave, not when the light comes on — when you pick up a hire or company car from somewhere like the car park at Bromsgrove. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever across Worcestershire that is. - Stop on level, motor off, with time to spare — not hurried on the side of Bromsgrove Highway. - Daft as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've found the filler and read it. - 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. - Only then, start the vehicle: close the cap, check a second time, and make sure your diesel cap was never opened. Spot at step two or three that it has already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Leave out stage five altogether. ## Already put AdBlue in your diesel tank in Tardebigge? Do not start your motor: that's where the short order of things begins. The fuel pump runs on many diesels the moment your ignition goes on — so leave it off. Diluting it with extra diesel won't work, because AdBlue settles to the bottom instead of mixing — and that's where your fuel is sucked from. If you are on a forecourt, whether it's the BP or the Morrisons, ask the attendants to help roll your car clear of the petrol pump. Leave it where it is if you're on your own drive around Tardebigge. If your motor has already run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. On the M42, under 3 miles from Tardebigge, that means the next junction. Tell us roughly how far it went: a run towards Birmingham, under 15 miles away, is a bigger job than a short hop across Tardebigge. ## Tardebigge: what takes place when our technicians get there Outside Tardebigge CofE First School, close to St Bartholomew or on your own drive: wherever the car has stopped, our technicians come to it. Those replies decide the work and the price, and so our engineers ask what was put in, roughly how much, and whether it has run. On the call itself, you are told our price — ahead of dispatch. Then that tank is cleared and your system flushed thoroughly. With AdBlue that matters more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, so it doesn't wash out on its own. Filter flushed or, if needed, replaced; fresh diesel in; then a test of your car. After that we fire it up and confirm it runs properly before leaving. If the engine has not run, the majority of jobs take about half an hour once we are there, using pumps that are fine on a busy forecourt and quiet enough to use outside a house at night. Payment is on the day, not upfront, and you receive the paperwork your insurer asks for: an engineer's report and a VAT invoice. Misfuelling cover is part of many insurance policies — and so use the wait to check yours. ## About Tardebigge Tardebigge is a village in Worcestershire, situated on the banks of a river in the West Midlands region. Tardebigge sits at an elevation of 158 metres, with nearby villages including Tutnall and Banks Green. Tardebigge is characterized by its semi-detached housing and rural setting, lying approximately 11.8 miles from Birmingham. Tardebigge remains a small community with a population of around 605 residents. ## AdBlue drains around Tardebigge and across Worcestershire Over B postcodes, our teams covering Tardebigge — a village — work the surrounding locations too, Vigo and Banks Green included. A postcode starting B60 1 gets the van to you fastest. Your car remains where it is. Our engineers drain it where it is — a side street near Hewell Grange, a lay-by on the way to Laurel Covert, a drive. Awkward to pin down, like the back of Finstall Village Hall? By a county line? Asking is better than assuming, so phone. ## For Tardebigge motorists, the short version Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in your diesel tank regardless? Keep the car switched off then call 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel drains it on the spot, throughout Worcestershire.