--- title: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank Temple? Read This canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/temple-glasgow-city/ location: Temple county: Glasgow City latitude: 55.894150 longitude: -4.324470 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-06 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in Temple: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It Pause here a minute if the diesel tank already holds AdBlue in it: ignition off, motor off, then ring 0333 366 0103. Around Temple, finding it before your motor runs normally means a drain and a full flush where it stands. If you're reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it occurs and how to make sure it does not. ## AdBlue in a diesel vehicle: two tanks, two fillers Plenty of modern diesels in High Knightswood, like those in Temple, run on two fluids; your motor gets just the diesel. AdBlue's own tank keeps it, and from there it goes to the exhaust, and there spraying treats the fumes. There is a filler for each tank. Under one flap, side by side: that is the arrangement on a lot of cars. Elsewhere, AdBlue's filler is beneath the bonnet or in your boot instead. At the pump, the diesel side is topped up all the time. The AdBlue side is filled far less commonly, usually from a bottle, and usually by a person who has to stop and think where it goes. It's in that gap that the slip happens. ## How AdBlue in the diesel tank occurs in Temple It's rarely carelessness. Three things tend to line up. Haste 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 gets done in a rush, before work on a drive off Linden Street, or heading home in the car park at Lock 27. Next, the hand reaches for the cap it would have used on the old car — since a rental car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't. Nothing stops the tip once it has started, since a bottle with a spout goes into a diesel filler as readily as an AdBlue one. The bottle fits. It's a few seconds, be it in Netherton or bang in the heart of Temple. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one Check these first, on a forecourt around Temple or a drive out in Kelvindale. Seconds, that's all. - Where it sits misleads; the cap doesn't. AdBlue caps are often blue or carry the word "AdBlue" — diesel ones normally don't. - Look at the size: the smaller neck is, on plenty of cars, the AdBlue one. - A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on plenty of motors. Check for it. - The handbook says which it lives when the filler isn't next to your diesel cap: the boot, or under the bonnet. - Whoever had it before will know. Check when you pick up a hire car or company car — from Anniesland's car park, perhaps — not once the warning appears. ## Topping up AdBlue without it reaching the diesel tank A routine for the day the light comes on, wherever around Glasgow City that is. - Not in a rush on the side of Fulton Street, not on a slope, not with your engine running: park then switch off first. - Silly as it sounds, saying "AdBlue" aloud as you unscrew the cap works — once you've found your filler and read it. - The two behind a single flap? Then make sure the lid on your diesel side stays closed before raising the bottle. - Slowly does it, through the bottle's own spout, until it is full or the bottle runs out. - Shut the cap, and look again — confirm your diesel filler remained closed the whole time. After that, start the car. Find during the second or third step that AdBlue went into the wrong filler? That is where you stop. Stage five is off limits. ## Temple: already put AdBlue in your diesel tank? Then the order of things is short. Do not start your engine. Don't switch your ignition on; on many diesels that alone runs the fuel pump. Thinning it with more diesel fails, because AdBlue sinks to the base rather than blending — and that is where your fuel is sucked from. The attendants at Shell, Morrisons or any forecourt will usually help to push the vehicle away when you ask. Your own driveway around Temple is where it stays. Where your engine has been run by now, stop safely and turn the car off. Temple sits under 3 miles from the M8; on it, use the first exit. A short hop across Temple is a smaller job than a run towards Glasgow, under 5 miles away, and so tell us about how far it went. ## What happens when we turn up in Temple By the local primary school, near Knightswood Anniesland Trinity Church or on your own drive: wherever the vehicle has stopped, our engineers come to it. The answers determine the work and the price, so our engineers ask what went in, roughly how much, and if it's run. You hear that price on the phone, before anybody sets off. Then that tank is drained and your system purged thoroughly. Much more than with petrol, it matters here: crystals build up, certain metals corrode, and nothing clears out unaided, no matter how long it is left. A test comes last: before that, clean diesel goes in, and the filter is cleaned or replaced if necessary. Next our engineers start it and check it runs smoothly before we go. Unstarted vehicles mostly mean a half-hour visit after the moment we arrive. The kit is safe on a live forecourt, and quiet enough for a residential street after dark. Nothing in advance; you settle up on the day. Afterwards, the VAT invoice and a report from the engineer go to you for your insurer. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, so it's worth checking yours whilst we are on the way. ## About Temple, briefly Temple is a suburban area in Glasgow City, situated on the riverside at an elevation of 34 metres, with the River Kelvin flowing nearby. Temple sits approximately 4 miles west of Glasgow city centre, near the neighbourhoods of Netherton, Anniesland, and Dawsholm. Temple has a population of around 6848 people, predominantly residing in flat-type housing. Temple is located 348 miles northwest of London, in the Scottish region of Glasgow City. ## AdBlue drains around Temple, and Glasgow City beyond Temple is a residential suburb, and the teams that cover it also work the towns near it, Anniesland and Dawsholm among them, across the G postcode area. Fastest of all: quote a G13 1 postcode for our van. Shifting the car is not needed. The drain takes place on the spot, whether a drive, a road by Anniesland Library, or a layby on the way to Anniesland Meadow. If you're close to a border, or somewhere hard to explain like the back of David Lloyd Clubs, ring and ask rather than guessing. ## Temple motorists: the short version Read the cap before you tip. AdBlue in the diesel tank regardless? Leave the vehicle off and ring 0333 366 0103; Petrol in Diesel empties it on the spot, across Glasgow City.